DrinkWell announces huge giveaway ahead of brand new beer box launch
DrinkWell is generously packing beer, glassware, coolers and snacks into a single box - giving 20 lucky winners the chance to partake in a luxurious taste test of their best lower calorie beers.
The boom of the low calorie alcohol market shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. It’s a health-conscious world we’re living in today – with more people on the lookout for lighter alternatives to their favourite guilty pleasures.
But it’s not just demand for low calorie alcohol that’s increasing. It’s expectations.
It’s not enough for reduced calorie alcohol to simply exist in 2021. It needs to taste damn good, too.
And if one brand knows anything about delicious alcohol without the extra sugars, carbs and calories – it’s Manchester’s very own DrinkWell.
Operating in the low calorie alcohol market for almost a decade, this local favourite has built out one of the biggest collections of top-tasting beer, wine and spirits anywhere in the UK – partnering with many leading brands in the process.
Heading into summer – a time when most of us are in the ‘no carbs before Marbs’ mood – Brits are still hoping to get in shape and getaway, even if that means a staycation… meaning ‘no carbs before Scarbs’ instead.
And switching from regular beer to low carb varieties is easy – with 20 of these drinks being given away absolutely free.
DrinkWell is generously packing beer, glassware, coolers and snacks into a single box – giving lucky winners the chance to partake in a luxurious taste test of their best lower calorie beers.
Items included as part of the massive DrinkWell giveaway are:
x3 Skinny Brands Bottles
x3 Marstons
x3 Kona
x3 Lagunitas
x3 Omission
x3 Tennents
x4 DrinkWell IPA
x2 DrinkWell Beer Glasses
x1 DrinkWell Can Cooler
x1 DrinkWell Beer Blade
x6 Skinni Snax
To be in with a shot of winning, simply follow the DrinkWell account on Instagram, share the competition post on your story, and tag two friends.
Lively Irish pub Nancy Spains set to open in Manchester for the first time
Daisy Jackson
An Irish bar famed for its live music is heading up to Manchester for the first time, and is promising £2.50 pints to lure us in.
Nancy Spains will be venturing out of London for the first time promising to bring the ‘ultimate traditional Irish pub experience’ to the Northern Quarter.
If you were to ask what the hottest trend in hospitality is right now the answer would, apparently, be Guinness. We’re drowning in the stuff.
This latest opening is more about Murphy’s, another Irish stout, than Guinness (they actually won’t serve Guinness at all) but the craic will be much the same.
Nancy Spains is actually set to open almost directly opposite the aforementioned Salmon of Knowledge, taking over the former Corner Boy unit on Stevenson Square in the heart of Manchester.
To celebrate its opening, the pub will be serving its first 5000 pints of Murphy’s for just £2.50, so that it can show off the atmosphere that’s established it as ‘one of London’s favourite pubs’.
They’re promising an array of Irish whiskeys behind the bar, live music performances, and a lively late-night setting.
Nancy Spains was set up by three brothers who travelled all over their home county of rural Kerry researching Irish pubs, before launching two venues down in London.
They want it to balance a traditional pub with the vibrancy of the city.
Peter O’Halloran, co-founder of Nancy Spains commented, “We’re so excited to be launching in Manchester, bringing Nancy Spains to the heart of the Northern Quarter.
“After the success of our two venues in London, it was only right to bring Nancy Spains’ infectious spirit and Irish pride to Manchester. Slainte!”
Nancy Spains will open its first Manchester pub on Saturday 15 March at 21 Hilton Street.
Lucky Mama’s – The Italian restaurant serving pasta in a dough bowl and ‘pregnant’ pizzas
Daisy Jackson
Lucky Mama’s is a local sensation, thanks to its slightly whacky but delicious Italian creations like pasta served in a bowl made of pizza dough and its latest offering, a ‘pregnant’ pizza.
What on Earth is a pregnant pizza, you ask? Firstly we should stress this is a nickname we’ve bestowed upon the dish, rather than Lucky Mama’s chosen branding.
But essentially it’s a helping of fresh pasta that’s folded into the bubble crust of the pizza, like a half-calzone.
Lucky Mama’s started life when founders Mamadou Dhiam and Gaby Santos set up a trailer in their backyard in Eccles in the depths of lockdown.
But thanks to a formidably loyal following that’s spread the word of Lucky Mama’s far and wide, it now has two pretty pink restaurants in Greater Manchester.
Back in 2022, they threw open the doors to their Chorlton restaurant, before returning back to home turf for spot number two in Monton in 2024.
The recipes are fresh and pretty authentically Italian up until the last step, when they throw a curveball by loading their pasta into unconventional vessels.
‘Pregnant’ pizzas at Lucky Mama’sTraditional Roman pizzasLucky Mama’s pink restaurant in Chorlton
Their pasta pizza bowls are what they’re best known for and they fly out of the kitchen – this is where pizza dough is placed around a metal bowl before being baked in an oven.
Then it’s piled high with freshly made pasta, with popular flavours like cacio e pepe, mushroom alfredo, and rasta pasta.
Pasta is available in a regular ceramic bowl too.
You’ll find Lucky Mama’s at 565 Barlow Moor Road in Chorlton; and 217 Monton Road in Eccles.
The Manc -
5th May 2021 
