Australia
Family owned and operated gin and agricole rum distillery located in the Tweed Valley, northern NSW. Lovely things written about our farm and cellar door, below.
The star ingredient is native rosella flowers. If you feel like your G&Ts are missing something - maybe a splash of red or purple colour - then this is the gin for you. Four years after Husk Distillers released their colour-changing butterfly pea flower gin, they've followed up with its ruby-hued sister.
The new Ink Sloe & Berry Gin is Husk Distillers' take on the classic English 'sloe gin' (a rich red liqueur traditionally made by macerating gin with sloe berries), giving it a distinctly Australian twist by infusing an array of native fruits, florals and bush botanicals.
With the dust barely settled on Husk Distillers' striking new facility in Tumbulgum-it's time for some more big news from this gracious family.
Listen here gentlewomen and men, we have the best news for you since figuring out gin may actually be good for helping to keep those wrinkles at bay. So you can pop aside your retinols and moisturisers for a minute and help us test out this theory because Husk Distillers is opening its cellar doors and bar in June.
At this paddock-to-bottle producer, the spirit is made from sugar cane that's grown, pressed and distilled on site. Husk Distillers, in Tumbulgum, northern NSW, is Australia's first producer of agricole rum, with the sugar cane grown on the distillery's property. On 15 June, the distillery will open its doors for tours and tastings.
If you needed further proof that rum was having a serious moment, then the opening of Husk Distillery in Tumbulgum is it.
It's not often you learn that a drink is made from butterfly pee. The mind boggles until it's explained that the butterfly pea is a blue flower native to equatorial Asia, where it is used to colour food and make tea.
After much anticipation, beloved spirit makers Husk Distillers, the famed creators of Ink Gin and paddock-to-bottle agricole rums, has unveiled its new cellar door, cocktail bar and cafe in the lush Northern New South Wales town of Tumbulgum. Owners and founders, the Messenger family, will open Husk's gates to the public for the very first time on Thursday June 13.
More and more these days we, the people, love knowing everything there is to know about local businesses. How they were created, how they operate, what goes into creating something that works. Luckily for us, there are many an incredible local business popping up both on the Gold Coast and within the local surrounds that have interesting stories to tell, the latest of which is Husk Distillers.
It's all systems go at the soon-to-be-opened Husk Farm Distillery, Tumbulgum Northern NSW. Husk is the creative brainchild of the Messenger family, who dreamed of creating a plantation distillery on their cattle and cane farm with Wollumbin - aka Mount Warning - as the backdrop.