Seven Bro7hers has released a limited-edition ‘Peanut Butter on a Jaffa Cake Stout’ as part of its upcoming birthday celebrations.
The Salford brewery is launching a new line of special craft beers – with each can exploring the interests, personalities, and quirks of the seven founding brothers.
The Peanut Butter and Jaffa Cake can will mark the first beer in the ‘7 Series’ – a nuttily sweet stout inspired by co-founder Kit McAvoy’s favourite childhood snack.
Whilst the beer is rich in peanut flavour it contains no nuts (meaning it’s still suitable for those with peanut allergies); with a combination of hops and malts bringing out the nutty, zesty flavours.
The stout is 7% ABV and available in a 440ml can from the Seven Bro7hers brewery web shop for a fiver.
Speaking about his stout, Director and Export Manager, Kit said: “It has been really fun taking well-known beers and flavours back to the drawing board and getting inventive with the brewing team. We are enormously proud of the last seven years and we hope people join us in celebrating this landmark.
“Have you ever had peanut butter on a Jaffa Cake? All I can say is, thank me later!”
Founded in 2014 by McAvoy brothers Guy, Keith, Luke, Daniel, Nathan, Kit, and Greg, Seven Bro7hers opened their first beer house in Cutting Room Square in Ancoats in 2016, with a second site in Middlewood Locks welcoming its first customers back in December 2019.
The brand has also unveiled plans for a pop-up bar & kitchen in the heart of MediaCityUK – along with more beer houses across the north in Leeds and Liverpool.
A Seven Bro7hers bar is also being installed in Manchester Airport’s £1 billion Terminal 2 as part of a lucrative 10-year deal – with the travel hub expected to open to the public in 2021.
The brewery’s most recent creation is a special beer called ‘Roadrunner‘ – launched alongside rugby league legend Rob Burrow who was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in 2019. 60% of the proceeds from the beer will go towards the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA) – helping to fund essential research in a bid to find a cure.
Co-founder Nathan said: “To us, Rob is one in seven million – an amazing player and family man, doing a fantastic job to raise awareness in the fight against this awful disease [and] it has been an honour to collaborate with Rob to bring to life his sporting legacy on the can.”
All Seven Bro7her beers are available to buy online.
Food & Drink
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 -
7th April 2021 
