@liamvhogan Separate to the point you are making, your thread encouraged me to do a bit of digging, and I was interested to find that in the early years, the Australian colony got most of its rum from India (Bengal Rum). Not a region that is commonly associated with rum these days! https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/yo-ho-ho-and-45000-gallons-of-rum/index.html