Skinny Lager is celebrating the big comeback of hospitality by gifting one lucky bar a whopping £2,000 Skinny Draught Bar Kit and 100 pints to give away.
This 89 calorie lager brand – which has enjoyed huge publicity in recent months – is aiming to do its bit for hospitality businesses; with many venues set to reopen after being closed for almost 200 days.
Skinny Lager has captured the imagination in recent months; having tapped into a newfound preference for lower calorie beers.
72% of 18-35 year olds are more calorie conscious when drinking according to Mintel research – and bottles of Skinny Lager’s 4% ABV beer with just 0.9% carbs have rocketed in sales by 220% in the past year!
Skinny Brands is hosting a massive competition this month / Image: Skinny Brands
The beer is also the “Most Reviewed Lower Calorie Lager Brand” on Amazon UK, clocking up a 4.6-star rating with over 1,700 reviews; topping the Best-Seller Category whilst flying off shelves in nationwide shops like Tesco, Morrisons, Asda and Ocado.
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Distribution agreements have been signed with major wholesalers to launch the brand in to venues across the country – including Primo Drinks, Molson Coors, Heineken, Robinsons, Matthew Clark, Brakes, Thomas Ridley, JJ Food Service – and the brand has already agreed a launch for distribution across the Atlantic starting in the USA ready for summer 2021.
The UK has really gulped down Skinny Lager by the bucketload – and now the brand want to show Greater Manchester bars what all the fuss is about.
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The winning venue will receive a Skinny Draught Bar and Brand Kit worth £2,000 / Image: Skinny Brands
In celebration of the reopening of pubs, Skinny Lager is offering one lucky venue in Greater Manchester the chance to get ‘Skinny On The Taps’ with their brand new Skinny Draught Mobile Bar.
The winning venue will receive a Skinny Draught Bar and Brand Kit worth £2,000. There will also be 100 free pints to giveaway from June 21st – a century’s worth of crisp, refreshingly malty beer with 35% fewer calories than other premium lagers.
Not only that, but Skinny Lager will give the venue a lifetime discount code on kegs to keep the Skinny Draught Bar running all year long!
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Every delicious pint is also Gluten-Free and Vegan Certified – making it a great all-rounder for the summer reopening.
Fancy getting involved?
Nominate your favourite Greater Manchester venue here to WIN the Skinny Draught Bar! If you are The Manc’s chosen winner you will win yourself and your friends a bar tab worth £250 for the winning venue too!
Popular night-time indie shopping market returns to Manchester tomorrow
Emily Sergeant
A unique indie shopping market is returning to Manchester, and you’ll be able to shop from 50 local small businesses all under one roof.
In case you hadn’t heard, the hugely-popular Night Market UK is back by popular demand, and it will be stopping off in our city centre for one night only tomorrow as part of the current leg of its tour across the country.
Returning to Manchester, but this time at a new location down at Fairfield Social Club in the Green Quarter, the unique night-time shopping experience will be showcasing more than 50 local small businesses – with everything from bespoke fashion items and beautifully-crafted homeware, to candles, artwork, silverware, and more on offer.
Brutal Fashion, Lost in Music, Urban Botany, and Dapper Alice are just a handful of the indie traders you’ll be able to shop from.
With event organisers promising there’ll be “a stall for everyone” to browse on the night, some of the other traders in attendance, include artisan producers, artists and bakers, as well as Fairfield Social Club’s resident street food purveyors Isit Kitchen, and pizza pros Killa Carbs.
DJ Clara B will also be taking over the club’s sound system too, and will be blasting tunes to set the scene all night long.
From bespoke fashion items and silverware courtesy of Brutal Fashion, to dazzling musical art prints from Lost in Music, and sculptural candles from Urban Botany to beautifully crafted homeware by Dapper Alice, there will be a stall for everyone on the night.
A popular night-time indie shopping market is returning to Manchester tomorrow / Credit: The Night Market UK | Kunal Mahesh Tewari (via The Night Market UK on Facebook)
The Night Market UK will open at Fairfield Social Club from 6pm tomorrow (Friday 26 July), and will run right through until 11pm.
Tickets are now on sale from just £4 each, and can be purchased in hourly entry timeslots – which organisers say “keeps the atmosphere just right” and ensures there’s enough space for everyone to be able to stay as little or as long as they’d like.
You can buy on the door or grab your tickets in advance here.
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Beloved Manc butty shop Bada Bing set for a sensational return to the city centre
Danny Jones
Sandwich lovers rejoice because one of the finest butty shops to ever grace Manchester is returning: that’s right, Bada Bing is bada-back!
The Sopranos-inspired deli and sandwich shop that took its name from one of the central locations featured in the iconic US drama (yes, the strip club), was a huge success when it first opened in Manchester a few short years ago, so it was a huge blow when it closed in February 2022.
Starting out by serving sandwiches out of a window at The B Lounge pub on Paton Street near Piccadilly, before moving to a small kitchen on Radium Street and eventually setting up their stall inside Ancoats General Store, they would regularly have lines around the block every lunchtime.
These Italian-American sarnies were so popular you’d often struggle to get your claws on one – and believe us, they really are a two-handed task – as they’d sell out on what felt like most days. But now, whether you were a regular or someone who missed out, there is hope once again:
Announcing their sensational return to a new site over in the Northern Quarter, which will now mark the fourth premises they’ve popped up at, Bada Bing is back with a bang and, as you can, they dropped the news with one of the best reveal videos we’ve ever seen.
If you know, you know…
Set to take over 125 Oldham Street, owners Sam Gormally and Meg Lingenfelter haven’t yet graced us with an opening date but the new unit should hopefully be open sooner rather than later.
The duo, who previously worked at fellow NQ favourite Another Heart to Feed, came up with the concept during lockdown and it didn’t take long for the idea to take off, nor for them to earn their spot amongst the very best sandwich places in Manchester.
Seriously, these things were so big and unwieldy (in the best way possible) that they even used to come with eating instructions: both hands and the trademark Tony Soprano hunch recommended, though the slightly stained wife-beater, boxer shorts and open dressing gown look is optional.
From slices of provolone cheese, all the thinly sliced Italian meats you could think of and the closest thing to actual ‘gabagool‘ as you’ll find in Greater Manchester, the menu was fitting of being served up to the iconic characters that once sat outside Satriale’s and a big approving grin from the man himself.
Simply put, we cannot wait and we will certainly keep you posted when we find out exactly when Bada Bing confirms their official reopening date.