New South Austin delivery service offers craft drink mixers

A photo of a range of cocktail ingredients — Crafter's Cocktails offers fresh drink mixers for home delivery. (Courtesy Crafter's Cocktails)

Crafter's Cocktails offers fresh drink mixers for home delivery. (Courtesy Crafter's Cocktails)

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By Olivia Aldridge | 5:00 AM Jun 26, 2020 CDT

Image description — Crafter's Cocktails rotates its menu each weekend. Pictured here is the Mexican Martini mixer. (Courtesy Crafter's Cocktails)

South Austin bartender Sean O'Neill launched Crafter's Cocktails, a craft drink mixer delivery service, this spring. O'Neill began offering delivery preservative-free mixers made with fresh ingredients when the coronavirus pandemic hit pause on his plans to open a bar. The delivery menu is available each weekend on a rotating basis, offering choices like the Mexican martini, Blueberry Basilade and Blackberry Chocolate Old Fashioned. Alcohol is not included with mixers.

Crafter's Cocktails is based out of 1709 Rockland Drive, Austin, and can be contacted at 609-948-0124 or www.crafterscocktails.com.

Crafters Cocktails Southwest Austin Impacts

By Olivia Aldridge

Olivia is the reporter for Community Impact's Southwest Austin edition. She graduated from Presbyterian College with a bachelor's degree in English and creative writing in 2017. Olivia was a reporter and producer at South Carolina Public Radio in Columbia, South Carolina before joining Community Impact in Austin.

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