BARS
WITH CRAFT COCKTAILS AND BAR 1661, DAVE MULLIGAN HAS FIGURED OUT A WAY TO KEEP ALL COCKTAIL DRINKERS HAPPY
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t’s been just over a year since Dave Mulligan set up Craft Cocktails and what a year it’s been. Launched in October 2020, the range of premium bottled cocktails is available today in over 40 independent retailers and venues around the country. The Craft Cocktails team has tripled in size and just recently, the brand opened Cuckoo Lane, its new cocktail factory in Dublin 7. Named after the local area, Cuckoo Lane has been designed as a multi-functional space that acts as a working cocktail lab, a retail and event space, a mixing, production and bottling line, tasting room and brand showroom. The new space is adjacent to BAR 1661, a bar specialising in Irish spirits, particularly poitín. It’s also owned by Dave Mulligan and was named after the year the once notorious Irish spirit was banned and driven underground in Ireland. Only seven months after opening, BAR 1661 was named ‘Best Cocktail Bar’ in the
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