The Centre Cut

Today we’re joined by Dave Mulligan an all round gent along with being owner-operator of Bar 1661 in Dublin city.

Aside from running our favorite bar, Dave is also the man behind Bán Poitíin, Craft Cocktails and Poitíin based ready to drink brand ‘Little & Green’ he is also one of the most important figures in Irish Poitíin shining a spotlight on our white national spirit pulling back the curtain on one of the most interesting drinks made anywhere in the world.

We thoroughly enjoyed chatting with Dave so tune in and enjoy, followed by a jaunt into 1661 for a little Belfast Coffee.

Today we’re covering part three of the strictly peaty series, in the previous two episodes we touch on the use of peat primarily in Scotland in relation to ‘Smoky’ peated scotch while today we’re bringing it back to the homeland for mostly modern and some historic peat use in Ireland as well.

We strongly reccommend listening to the previous episodes in the series if you haven’t yet.

Episode 1:https://open.spotify.com/episode/3zw6dpS54E9W4PDjTXS2VS?si=11a6cc9218bc49da

Episode 2:https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Wc0vMfwlk4hiMtpD8wTJk?si=7fff6ec4122b40b3

This week we're chatting about Locals as in the fella sitting at the end of the bar with the pint and the newspaper and what constitutes a 'Local' bar to Matt & Mike.

Modern Irish Hospitality?

We’ve been in different countries for the last week so we’re catching up on the most relevant things we’be been doing while on the move, mainly The Big Grill festival in Dublin and Mikes adventures in Prague.

Brians wines returneth, we're back with lovely man Brian O'Connor of 'brianswines.ie' importer and passionate enthusiast in the field of natural wine for a look at the wine scene in the summertime and what that looks like.

If you haven't heard our earlier episoded in the series we strongly suggest you go back and start at the beginning, simply type 'Wine with Brian' into your podcast searchbar and you'll see the light, episode names are:

Wine with Brian: Just grapes

Wine with Brian: Fruits of Labour

Wine with Brian III: Wall of Wine

But aso, fair play to you.

Today it’s all about the here and now, what’s happening, and how the mind, body and soul are faring, tune in and stay sound.

Today we’re talking to Kevin O’Gorman, Master Distillery of Midleton Distillery.

Kevin is one of the few people that has geniunely shaped Irish Whiskey over the past 25 years and is directly responsible for the making of some of the juciest drops of brown produced anywhere on the planet including all of our favourite Brands from Powers, Jameson and Redbreast all the way through to The Spot whiskeys, Method & Madness & Midleton Very Rare (that has his name on the bottle)

This is the first chat where we’ve whipped out the ‘in person mics’ and sat down on site at Midleton Distillery with Kevin so tune in and get a feel for what Kevin, and by extention everyone on site at Midleton are all about.

Stay sound.

Have you seen Oppenheimer? Have you seen Barbie? Have you ever had a drop of Redbreast 12?

These are the questions that mean so much to us this time of the week, we’re chatting about all the above including some bits on what it’s like down in Dingle from the POV of a Cork man.