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About

Eight years fixing bars. Then we built our own.

VIVA was started by a drinks dispense engineer who spent the better part of a decade keeping other people's bars pouring. Now we build the bars, own the kit, and run the events ourselves.

Founder-led, engineer-built
Bars built & branded in-house
Ibiza Global Radio Festival 2024 & 2025
Public liability insurance
A VIVA bar in the workshop beside a Vision V21e cooler and exposed dispense system
The Story

It started in the cellar, not the showroom.

VIVA was founded by Jordan. Before any of this, he spent eight years as a drinks dispense engineer — installing and maintaining dispense equipment the length and breadth of the UK. City bars, restaurants, stadiums, festivals, mobile bars, Glastonbury — fitting systems, running installs, and getting called out when a bar couldn't pour and the night was on the line.

That's eight years of learning exactly what fails on site, why it fails, and how to build so it doesn't. So when he set up VIVA, the bars weren't picked off a catalogue — they were built by someone who'd spent a career fixing everyone else's.

He set up on his own and it's grown every year since. Same hands on the kit, just our name on the bar now.

What We Do

From Bar in a Box to a festival site.

Hire it for a day, have us run it, take it to a festival, or buy one outright. It's all the same kit, the same standard, run by the same people.

Hire a bar

Bar in a Box arrives fully set up — wheel it off and pour. Or dry hire: we deliver, set up and collect, you supply the drinks.

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Staffed bars

Trained bartenders, stocked bar, bespoke menu, cashless card payment. We run it, you enjoy the event.

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Festivals & dispense

Full festival sites, multi-bar runs, or just the dispense equipment installed on your build.

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Buy a bar

A complete, professional bar built and branded in our workshop — yours to keep, from £2,999.

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VIVA bar setup at the Ibiza Global Radio Festival on the beach in San Antonio, Ibiza
Ibiza Global Radio Festival

We shipped the whole lot to a beach in Ibiza.

In 2024 and 2025 we took our complete setup — bars, dispense, cellar kit, the lot — out to San Antonio for the Ibiza Global Radio Festival, and ran the bar on the beach. Two years running.

It's the clearest answer we've got to "can you actually handle our site?" If we can ship it to a beach in Ibiza and pour cold beer in the heat, your event is well within reach.

Why We're Different

We own it, so we own the outcome.

Most of what goes wrong with a bar comes down to kit you don't control or people who don't know it. We control both.

01We own our kit

The bars, the dispense, the EPOS, the cellar gear — all ours. Nothing sub-hired, nothing we can't vouch for.

02Built in-house

We fabricate the bars and print the branding ourselves. If something needs to be a certain size or design, we just build it.

03Engineer-run

The standard comes from years on the tools. We build and set up bars knowing exactly what fails on site.

04Fixed, honest quotes

The price you're quoted is the price you pay. No estimate-tax, no surprise line items on the invoice.

The Kit

What we run with.

The equipment behind the bars — the same standard used in professional venues, owned and operated by us.

  • T-bar tap towers up to 12 taps
  • Insulated python runs up to 50m
  • Full gas ring-main for consistent pour pressure
  • Vision V21e and IceJet python coolers
  • Twin-cylinder CO2 / N2 with regulation
  • Pre-batched cocktail kegs — margaritas, espresso martinis, spritzes
  • Cashless EPOS and card readers — our own system
  • Festival cellars built off-bar
  • Multi-day staffing with rolling shift cover
  • Public liability insurance
Ready when you are

Let's talk about your event.

Tell us your date, your venue, and what you need. Fixed quote within 24 hours. No pressure, no waffle.