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Just a stone’s throw over the Queensland border, Paul Messenger, of Husk Distillers, produced the first bottle of rum from a small green shed on the family sugarcane farm in the lush surrounds of Mt Warning in Northern New South Wales in 2012. Since then, he, wife Mandy and their three daughters have had quite the ride as farmers and distillers.

The initial vision was to produce a paddock to bottle agricole rum which, while inspired

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