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Located in the old Porterhouse Central on Nassau Street, Tapped is the latest bar to open in Dublin’s city centre. The new sustainability-focused venue specialises in local and international craft beer, organic and sustainable wine and its very own kegged cocktails on tap. It boasts one of the highest number of taps on site in Ireland and has also partnered with Dublin Pizza Company to offer wood-fired pizzas, LA style smashed burgers, wings, sandwiches and salads seven days a week. The new bar has been opened by the team behind Porterhouse Brewery and Dingle Distillery, who spent the last two years brainstorming and creating a unique concept that will offer the widest range of drinks available on tap in Ireland. Commenting on Tapped, Elliot Hughes, Managing Director of Porterhouse Brew Co and Dingle Distillery, said: “Starting with beer, it is only natural for us to offer our own Porterhouse Brewery products such as Plain, Rambler and Renegade, but it’s also

TAPPED IN DUBLIN BOASTS THE COUNTRY’S LARGEST NUMBER OF TAPS ALONG ITS HUGE 15M BAR

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essential to us that the customer has far-reaching options. We will offer beers from independent breweries across Ireland and around the world including White Hag, Garage, Stigbergets, Trouble Brewing and Kinnegar. To ensure new beers are always being introduced, the beer menu will change weekly.” Cocktails are available on tap, a move that eliminates an enormous amount of waste daily, said Elliot. “Equally, it saves the consumer so much time waiting for their drink. However, we do understand that initial impressions may be that cocktails on tap might not be of the same standard that cocktail connoisseurs are used to. We are very confident this will not be the case here.” Each cocktail on tap is carefully curated by Dingle Distillery Global Ambassador Alan Glynn and made by the team just down the road in Porterhouse Brewery, where a cocktail laboratory has been created just for this purpose. “This allows us to offer fresh bespoke cocktails on tap and to minimise our environmental impact while doing so. Only premium spirits are being used such as Dingle Gin, Dingle Vodka, Bacardi, Regal Rogue and our award-winning Dingle Single Malt, to ensure the highest quality cocktails each time. These cocktails will be just as delicious as the consumer demands, so much quicker to serve and ultimately far, far better for the environment.” Tapped also offers a premium wine selection, both on tap and by the bottle, as well as a wide range of canned craft beers, a large offering of Irish whiskey, rum, tequila and a non-alcoholic drinks selection. Internally, the venue features very few materials. Wood, concrete and steel make up the vast majority, while Italian glass bricks are used to create bespoke countertops. Ireland’s first full concrete bar stretches 15m in length, while a bespoke live online menu has been created so that all patrons can view remotely. A local robotics company has been commissioned to create a rotating menu which will move on a loop showcasing guest beers and specials – the first of its kind in Ireland. Steel tables as well as shipping container pods create intimate yet edgy private seating booths. Up-cycled furniture, kegged chairs and even old TV frames, which will be used to house local Irish art, are dotted across the venue. Every piece of furniture at Tapped has been custommade locally by Irish creatives.

TAPPED - IN DETAIL

Owned by: Liam LaHart, Director, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Porterhouse Group and Elliot Hughes, Managing Director at Porterhouse Brew Co and Dingle Distillery. The pair also own Porterhouse Brew Co, Porterhouse Temple Bar, Porterhouse London, Dingle Distillery and Lost Lane.

Business History

• Porterhouse Brew Co was founded in 1996 by cousins Liam LaHart and the late Oliver

Hughes, alongside Brewing Director Peter

Mosley • Pioneers of craft beer in Ireland

• Between 2000 and 2011, they expanded their presence to London and New York • Opened Dingle Distillery in 2012 producing award-winning Dingle Whiskey (winner of multiple gold awards) and Dingle Gin (World’s Best Gin in 2019) • Current MD is Elliot Hughes, son of the late

Oliver Hughes