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Walkers release sausage roll-flavoured crisps in time for Christmas

Crisps that taste like sausage rolls are coming to shelves over the next few weeks. Maybe Christmas isn't ruined after all.

The Manc The Manc - 16th October 2020

It’s been a year chockablock with truly strange incidents and announcements. Now, we’ve got another.

Thankfully, it’s a bit of good news – especially if you’re someone who likes to broaden your horizons when you snack.

Gary Lineker’s old pals at Walkers have announced they’ll be releasing sausage roll-flavoured crisps in time for the festive season, and all of a sudden, 2020 seems a lot better.

Who knows, perhaps Christmas isn’t ruined after all?

Or, if it is, at least we’ll be watching the chaos unfold with weirdly tasty snack on the side.

These pastry-flavoured crisps will be available in supermarkets and online from Monday – costing 69p per bag (RRP).

A multipack of five bags, or one 65g sharing bag, will cost you a quid.

If you needed another reason to give them a go – consider the fact that 5p from each pack will also go to food bank charity Trussell Trust.

Philippa Pennington, from Walkers said: “We’re excited to be adding one of the nation’s most loved flavours – sausage rolls – to our offering this festive season.

“With huge demand for food banks this year, we want everyone to get behind LadBaby and help to raise even more money at Christmas for the Trussell Trust.” 

Get a bag of ‘The Power Of Sausage Roll’ crisps at most stores from Monday 19 October.

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Local brewery J.W. Lees is helping bring back Manchester’s beloved Boddingtons beer

Danny Jones Danny Jones J.W. Lees Brewery now the exclusive Manchester supplier of Boddingtons

Greater Manchester, it’s time to rejoice in the return of a cask king, as Boddingtons is coming back in a big way and local brewery J.W. Lees is helping spearhead the revival.

The famous ‘Cream of Manchester’ has slowly dripped away over the decades, being found in fewer places by the year, though some holdouts have remained.

Fortunately, those who are truly passionate about Boddingtons and their love for the delicious golden ale haven’t waned over the years, helping keep it alive in the few Manc pubs still serving it.

But now, thanks to the native brewers, beer brand and pub chain, this is just the beginning of a fresh start. By’eck – it’s back…

boddies bitter back manchester
They’re hoping to make sights like this a thing of the past.
boddingtons beer is back
More of this, please.
Credit: The Manc Eats

Teaming up with the global Budweiser Brewing Group (BBG), which will now oversee the resurrection of the modern-day ‘Boddies’, J.W. Lees will be bringing the cask ale back to the masses.

Just in time for cosy, autumnal nights in the pub, no less.

Planning to reintroduce it in their pubs across the region, before hopefully taking on the North West and beyond, they’re promising to make it “smoother, creamier, and brewed closer to home than ever before.”

Manchester’s oldest brewery is now the exclusive supplier of the new Boddingtons Cask Bitter 2.0, which they will brew and distribute under licence from BBG.

It seems fitting that Lees (founded in 1828) should be entrusted with one of our oldest beers in Boddingtons, which dates back to 1778 and went on to become not just one of the biggest beer brands in the UK but also one of the first to be canned and mass-produced on the shelves across the country.

To toast the return and impending supremacy of Boddies, J.W. Lees Albert Square pub, Founder’s Hall – which replaced the old Duttons when it opened last year – is even hosting a party to celebrate its comeback on Friday, 12 September.

This isn’t just a reboot; the new and improved Boddies brand comes with a new 4.0% ABV recipe, looking to join the lineup of premium British ales.

William Lees-Jones, Managing Director J.W. Lees, said: “When I joined JW Lees in 1994, Boddingtons was ‘The Cream of Manchester’ and we were in awe of their position in leading the cask beer revolution.

“We are planning to put Boddingtons back where it rightly deserves to be as one of the leading premium UK cask beers, particularly in our heartland of the North West.

“We also look forward to working with Budweiser Brewing Group with their portfolio of market-leading lagers and premium packaged beers in our pubs.”

Keep an eye out for Boddingtons arriving in selected pubs and get ready to raise a glass to the ‘Cream of Manchester’s grand return.

We rediscovered an old Boddingtons advert and now we’re gasping for ‘the cream of Manchester’
By’eck, it’s still bloody gorgeous…

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Trailer released for highly-anticipated Netflix series House of Guinness filmed in Greater Manchester

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant

The trailer for a highly-anticipated new Netflix drama series from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has been released.

It comes after a series of exciting first look images were shared last month.

Knight has traded in the foggy streets of Birmingham for the back alleys and stately mansions of Dublin – as well as its world-renowned brewery, of course – as House of Guinness is set to whisk audiences back to the 1860s, where the powerful and debaucherous titular Guinness family is ‘on the precipice of greatness’.

Set in 19th-century Dublin and New York, the eight-part series explores an epic story inspired by one of Europe’s most famous and enduring dynasties, and begins immediately after the death of Sir Benjamin Guinness.

The story follows the far-reaching impact of Sir Guinness’s will on the fate of his four adult children, Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben, as well as on a group of Dublin characters who work and interact with the phenomenon that is Guinness.

House of Guinness will air on Netflix later this month / Credit: Ben Blackall (via Netflix)

The four Guinness siblings are played by actors Anthony Boyle (Arthur), Louis Partridge (Edward), Emily Fairn (Anne), and Fionn O’Shea (Ben).

Audiences get to watch the Guinnesses experience ‘ecstatic highs’ and heartbreaking lows’ as they work to live up to their birthright of black gold.

The newly-released trailer gives intrigued viewers the chance to see the talented ensemble cast in action, and marvel at the set designs that are like stepping back in time to the 1860s.

Production and filming for House of Guinness commenced from summer 2024 onwards, and some very well-known Greater Manchester places were used as filming locations, such as the Northern Quarter, and Stockport‘s legendary Underbanks.

Mansions in Cheshire and Liverpool were also used as filming locations for the show.

“It’s the extraordinary story of a family who happens to be the inheritors of the biggest brewery in the world,” creator Steven Knight told Netflix.

“They’re young and are given the task of taking on this incredibly successful brand. The first priority is – don’t screw it up. And the second priority is to make Guinness even bigger.”

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House of Guinness will air on Netflix on 25 September, with all eight episodes to available to stream straight away.

You can watch the trailer in full here:

Featured Image – Ben Blackall (via Netflix)

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