Illegal Tender Rum Co was founded by Master Distiller Codie Palmer.
As a qualified Instrumentation Electrician by trade with a family tradition in engineering and farming, Codie has turned a more than decade long obsession with distilling into a thriving enterprise with a real ambition.
Illegal Tender Rum Co started out as just a dream, something Codie never thought would happen: An all Australian spirits company seeking to produce the finest all Australian small batch rum. With all proceeds being KEPT in Australia.
The journey hasn’t been easy. The career path Codie was on was fast-tracking one of the youngest ever apprentices and trades-person hired by Rio Tinto Iron Ore in Dampier, until a chance encounter in his mid-Twenties gave him the confidence to go for it, sell his house, car and more, to finance his dream and move to the mid-west.