{"id":107618,"date":"2025-07-03T09:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/?p=107618"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:57:22","slug":"the-burdekin-distillery-by-its-creator-tim-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/the-burdekin-distillery-by-its-creator-tim-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burdekin Distillery, by its creator Tim Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Burdekin<\/p>\n

We’re an Australian farm-style rum producer. We run a water bottling business and own a 100 acre farm which has an aquifer underneath it.<\/p>\n

We’re adjacent to Bowling Green National Park in North Queensland. In 2020, we took a close look at our mineral water business and our options, and set up the distillery. We’re located in the heart of the Burdekin, Australia’s premier sugar cane growing region, with a much higher brix than other regions.<\/p>\n

So we decided to diversify into rum, and more specifically into the French Caribbean agricultural style – although, of course, you can’t call it that! We reduce all our spirits with our own mineral water.<\/p>\n

\"Burdekin<\/p>\n

We launched our first product on the market at the end of 2022. We call our base product Virgin Cane Spirit, because there is a 2-year wood-ageing rule in Australia to be able to use the word rum. Vintage Cane Spirit is the same product aged for 1 year in PX casks, and we also have a molasses-based product, aged for a minimum of 2 years in ex-bourbon casks, which we call Premium Aged Rum.<\/p>\n

We have carried out a number of experimental batches, recipe developments in 2020-21 using contract distillers, to achieve our \u201celegant and refined\u201d flavour profile. We have a specific yeast blend that we use, and we normally try to apply a fairly controlled fermentation.<\/p>\n

In terms of the type of distilling apparatus, we now have a new 4,000 litre pot\/column Frilli hybrid still. This gives us a lot of control, particularly over reflux. We can do a pot still style, or a single pass through the pot and column with reflux.<\/p>\n

\"Burdekin<\/p>\n

Normally, we make a single pass through the pot and the 12-tray column, resulting in a spirit that is around 72% proof. This has proved reproducible and gives an excellent flavour profile. We are at 60%.<\/p>\n

Finally, we have a number of limited \u201cDistillers Editions\u201d that we make both in the high alcohol Martinique style (Wild Child, JP Edition and Coral Sea Strength) and also a high alcohol VO rum, aged for 3 years and 4 months. We have won a number of awards, including best in class for our premium rum at the ADI last year. Our markets are Australia, the UK (Whiskyexchange) and hopefully the US later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re an Australian farm-style rum producer. We run a water bottling business and own a 100 acre farm which has an aquifer underneath it. We’re adjacent to Bowling Green National Park in North Queensland. In 2020, we took a close look at our mineral water business and our options, and set up the distillery. We’re…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9540,5482],"tags":[7061,9498],"class_list":["post-107618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australian-rum","category-news","tag-australia","tag-burdekin-distillery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}