Drinks & Beverages
for the Irish coffee & food trailer trade.
Coffee beans, soft drinks, syrups
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Drinks + beverages for the Irish coffee + food trailer trade covers coffee beans, tea, hot chocolate powders, syrups, sauces, soft drinks, juices, milks (dairy + plant), kombucha, energy drinks, water, mixers, and the underlying ingredient supply chain. Most Irish coffee trailer operators source beans through 3-5 major specialty roasters + a couple of UK-based wholesale options; food trailer operators source soft drinks via Coca-Cola Ireland / Britvic Ireland / cash-and-carry at C&C Group + Musgrave wholesale.
Irish specialty coffee roasters — the trade landscape
Specialty + commercial coffee roasters most often supplied to Irish trailers + cafés: Java Republic (Dublin, the country's largest roaster), Imbibe Coffee Roasters (Dublin), 3FE (Dublin), Cloud Picker (Dublin + Cork), Bell Lane (Mullingar), Cork Coffee Roasters (Cork), Calendar Coffee (Galway), Roasted Brown (Carlow), Bean & Goose (Wexford), Brewdog Coffee (cross-border), Coffeeangel (Dublin), Ariosa (Dublin), Bewley's trade (Dublin). Beans are typically sold whole at €18-€32/kg trade depending on origin + roast date freshness. Most roasters offer free trade equipment loan (espresso machine + grinder) tied to a minimum monthly bean order.
Brew methods + filter coffee
Filter / pour-over coffee is a steadily growing Irish segment driven by specialty roasters and pour-over-friendly cafés. Common methods: V60 (Hario), Chemex, AeroPress, French press, batch brew (Marco / Bunn / Fetco / Wilbur Curtis), cold brew (Toddy / Bruer). Cold brew + nitro coffee on tap is heavily traded in Dublin + Cork specialty cafés. Filter beans typically run €19-€28/kg and need a separate flat-burr grinder (Mahlkönig EK43 is the trade standard at €2,200-€2,800 — most operators below 200 cups/day use a Eureka Mignon Specialita filter or similar at €450-€700).
Syrups, sauces + barista accessories
Syrups (Monin, Torani, Routin 1883, Sweetbird, IBC) anchor flavoured-coffee sales — caramel, vanilla, hazelnut, Irish cream. Trade pricing €5-€8 per litre bottle in case quantities. Sauces (Monin gourmet, Da Vinci, Torani sauce) for mochas + iced drinks run €8-€14/litre. Most Irish coffee trailers stock 6-10 syrup flavours + 2-3 sauces. Milk handling: dairy from Glanbia / Dairygold / Lakeland Dairies + plant alternatives (Oatly, Alpro, Califia, Minor Figures, Rude Health) — oat dominates the Irish plant-milk café market post-2022, with supply through specialist barista-grade SKUs (Oatly Barista, Minor Figures Barista).
Soft drinks, mixers, energy + bottled water
Coca-Cola HBC Ireland and Britvic Ireland supply most Irish food trailers with branded soft drinks (Coke, Sprite, Fanta, 7Up, Lucozade, Robinsons). Trade pricing varies heavily by volume + contract — typical wholesale €0.40-€0.80 per 330ml can in case quantities, €1.20-€2.00 per 500ml bottle. Energy drinks (Red Bull, Monster) sell strongly at festivals + late-night street-food pitches. Bottled water (Ballygowan, Deep RiverRock, Tipperary, Volvic) — sale margin is thin at trailers but volumes high; pre-chilled is a big selling point for summer festivals.
Tea, hot chocolate, alternative drinks
Tea on Irish trailers leans Barry's + Lyons (the Irish duopoly) for everyday black tea + a smaller specialty market for Wandering Tea, Solaris, Twinings, Pukka herbal. Hot chocolate powders (Cadbury's catering, Whittard's, Monin Le Frappé, Aquila) cost €15-€35/kg trade. Chai concentrates (Drink Me Chai, MasalaChai, Prana) sell well in Dublin + Cork specialty venues. Kombucha + cold-pressed juice are growing segments — Kapow, Synergy, Kombooch.io are common Irish brands.
Counties served
Drinks + beverage suppliers on Food Trailers Marketplace serve all 32 counties. Coffee bean roasters in Dublin / Cork / Galway / Mullingar / Wexford ship nationally; soft drink wholesale runs through Coca-Cola HBC Ireland's + Britvic's national depot networks; specialty beverage importers (Drink Me Chai, Oatly, Minor Figures Ireland) ship via national couriers. Festival caterers should order 3-4 weeks before the event for branded SKUs to avoid stockouts.
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