Farm to Bottle Rum Tour at Husk Farm Distillery: Harvest & Taste

You harvest the cane, crush it, taste the juice, and follow it all the way to the barrel house.

This 90-minute on-farm activity at Husk Farm Distillery in New South Wales puts you to work harvesting and crushing sugarcane, then traces the journey from field to bottle as rum. You start with a white rum cocktail overlooking the paddocks, move into the fields to learn the harvest, taste fresh cane juice, feed the stalks to the farm's cattle, walk through the still house to see fermentation and distillation, and finish with a guided tasting of aged Husk Rum expressions in the barrel house. Two cocktails and rum samples are included. A live guide leads in English.

The experience

The experience opens with a rum cocktail in hand while you stand in the paddock, then moves straight into the work: learning to harvest and crush sugarcane the way the farm does it. You taste the fresh juice as it comes from the cane, or add a shot of rum to it if you want. The cane tops go to the farm's cattle, which handle the sustainability side of the operation. This is not a passive walk-through. You are doing the labor that starts the whole chain.

From there you follow the sugarcane into the still house to see how the juice ferments and becomes rum, then move through to the barrel house where a guide walks you through a flight of Husk's aged expressions. The whole arc, field to bottle, takes about 90 minutes, and the guide explains the processes at each stop. You leave with a clear picture of how a single-estate rum actually gets made, from the soil up.

What’s included

• Two Husk Rum cocktails.
• fresh sugarcane juice tasting.
• guided rum sample flight in the barrel house.
• farm and distillery tour with a live English-speaking guide.

Before you book

Days and timesSaturdayDeparts at 16:00

AgesAdult (18 and older) · Under 18: can't be booked

GroupUp to 20

Live guideEnglish

Meeting point and pickupNo hotel pickup: you go to the meeting point. Ends back at the starting point.

Cancellation and refundsFree cancellation up to 24 h before the start. After that, no refund.It may be canceled due to bad weather. If that happens, you're offered another date or a refund.

Prices and times updated 4 days ago

Good to know

Low physical effortWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportPets welcomeNot recommended during pregnancyNot recommended with heart problems

Operated by Husk Distillers

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to move through the whole process yourself (harvesting, crushing, tasting) rather than watching a demonstration. The 90 minutes keeps the pace brisk and the hands-on work front and center, so you leave knowing exactly how the rum got made.

Top questions

What happens if it rains?

It may be canceled due to bad weather. If that happens, you're offered another date or a refund. Free cancellation up to 24 h before the start.

What exactly do I do during the harvest part of the tour?

You learn to harvest sugarcane by hand and operate the crushing equipment, then taste the fresh juice straight from the cane. If you choose, you can add a shot of rum to the juice before drinking it.

Is this the only place in Australia where you can tour a sugar cane farm and rum distillery together?

Husk Farm Distillery is Australia's only single-estate sugar cane farm and rum distillery, so this is the only tour that combines both the farming and the distilling on one property.

What rum samples do I get to try?

You receive a guided flight of aged Husk Rum expressions in the barrel house at the end of the tour, tasting several different styles the distillery produces.

How long does the whole experience take?

The tour runs 90 minutes from start to finish, including the cocktail, the harvest work, the still house walk-through, and the barrel house tasting.