1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: You trend in hospital speaking, which keigs of cocktails? Ready 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: for this? Keigs of cocktails, mass batches of Martiniz, Margarita's 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,239 Speaker 1: and mojitos. Normal Taps co owner Luke Jones is with 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: us on this look very good morning to you. 5 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 2: Morning Mike here you going very well. 6 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: Indeed, do excuse my ignorance. Do you retail or wholesale 7 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: or both? 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,479 Speaker 2: We're actually both. So we have a bar, Normal Tats 9 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 2: and the Citywek's depot and we've just started about three 10 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 2: months ago selling wholesale. 11 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: And do you wholeside? Do you make the kegs yourself? 12 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: In other words, do you do that and then sell 13 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: them out? Or do you bring them in from somewhere? 14 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 2: Yeah? No, no, we make them ourselves. So we started 15 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 2: just making them just for our bar, and then the 16 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: demand sort of picked up. People caught on to what 17 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 2: we're doing, and now we make them in larger scale 18 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 2: formats and sell them out to other bars across. 19 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 1: How does the cocktail come out? Does it come out 20 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: of a hose? 21 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 2: It comes out you mean, like tru like a tat, 22 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 2: like a. 23 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: Tap, You pull it, You pull a trigger and out 24 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: comes the drink like a beer. 25 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, essentially. Yeah, essentially, it's it's like the beer, although 26 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 2: some of them are probably easier to pour than beers 27 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 2: because you just you basically just turn the tap, comes 28 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 2: out and then turn it off. 29 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: Okay, and and do they taste any good? 30 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 2: Well? I hope so, because we've got a bar about it, 31 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 2: and we've got a wholesale business. But we've we've been lucky, 32 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 2: so we've done a lot of real time feedback with 33 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 2: customers at our bar, so we've been able to iterate 34 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 2: on our products across the last sort of eight nine 35 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 2: months to a stage where we're super happy with them. 36 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 2: And yeah, they taste they taste pretty good. 37 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: And they got shelf life issues in any way, shape 38 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: or form or though. 39 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 2: No, no, So so they're all able to be kept 40 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 2: in cakes from around sort of three to six months 41 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 2: if they're chilled after being tapped. So yeah, that whole 42 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 2: wastage isn't an issue with K cocktails. It's sort of 43 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 2: the same as beers on tap. 44 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: Okay, what what happened to the vibe? You know when 45 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: you go in and your somebody shakes it up, and 46 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: you know there's some lovely glasses and a lovely ice 47 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: cube and a little slice of lemon, and you know 48 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: what I mean? Then what happened to that suddenly you're 49 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: just ordering a there it is? 50 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I guess it's just a different experience really. 51 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 2: So what we do is we just do the kind 52 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 2: of standard cocktails, so the ones that bartenders don't often 53 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 2: want to make. You know, maybe ten spress of martinis 54 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 2: in a row can be a little bit frustrating for 55 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 2: a bartender and also for the customer on the other 56 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: end waiting, you know, sort of fifteen minutes for their 57 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 2: ten spress of martinis, whereas we can see them and 58 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 2: pull them out. 59 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, could I blind the only drink I don't drink spirits? 60 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,119 Speaker 1: The only one i'm i'm is a French martini? Could 61 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: I blind taste of French martini against yours if you 62 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: poured one out of a tap? 63 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we don't actually do one, but we 64 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 2: could do one and you wouldn't be able to tell 65 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 2: the difference. 66 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: Seriously. 67 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because I. 68 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: Use fresh pineapple juice and you can't because you're in 69 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: a key. 70 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 2: We well, we do, we do use it's so it's pressurized, 71 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 2: So we do use fresh partapple juice. We use fresh, 72 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 2: fresh ingredients for everything, and there's things that we use 73 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 2: to sort of stabilize it as well so it lasts longer. 74 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 2: But yeah, all our ingredients are fresh at the moment. 75 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: Okay, do you charge less because it's more convenient for 76 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: you as the retailer or no. 77 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 2: We do. I mean all of our cocktails in the 78 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 2: city are up for twenty dollars, whereas if you go 79 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 2: to other bars are probably range from around twenty three 80 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 2: to any. 81 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: Sammy, who's my producer, who drinks a lot, he says 82 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: twenty is a good price, so you're obviously on the right. 83 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we have happy hour as well, so here 84 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:48,279 Speaker 2: around the city between three and six they're fifteen dollars. 85 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: Fifteen dollars at three in the afternoon, what can possibly 86 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: go wrong? Look? Yeah, absolutely good luck with that. Nice idea. 87 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: Luke Jones, who's with normal taps cocktails and a keg hm, Well, 88 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: just occasionally you don't want to come across I don't 89 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: want to come across as a heavy drinker. That's all 90 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: I'm just sinking. It's reputation. 91 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 2: For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast listen live to 92 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 2: news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 93 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.