Manchester Monumental Happy Music Town
Cozy pubs, museums and architecture, the vibrant city of Manchester has it all. This musical city also produced many artists. Bands like The Smiths, Stone Roses, New Order, Oasis and Joy Division all come from here. Visit the Manchester Town Hall, one of the city’s most prominent landmarks, or stroll through the photogenic Castlefield district. In this heart of Manchester, industrial architecture, old factory buildings and street art go hand in hand.
Manchester Monumental Happy Music Town
Albert Square.
Tourists and residents alike enjoy coming to Albert Square. Victorian buildings and Manchester Town Hall surround the city’s largest square. This vibrant heart of Manchester regularly hosts concerts and events. Around Christmas, the square is transformed into a large Christmas market where you can enjoy mulled wine and stalls selling Christmas goodies.
Manchester Monumental Happy Music Town
Manchester Monumental Happy Music Town
Manchester Monumental Happy Music Town
ALL 2,350 MANCHESTER BANDS
Manchester Gin Distillery.
21 Red Bank, Cheetham Hill, Manchester M4 4HF, Verenigd Koninkrijk
The Spirit of Manchester Distillery.
10-15 Watson St, Manchester M3 4LP, Verenigd Koninkrijk
The Spirit of Manchester Distillery
Every drop of Manchester Gin is distilled here at The Spirit of Manchester Distillery. Come and explore our distillery, taste our award-winning spirits and even become a distiller for the day in our Gin Making Experience.
Voted Manchester’s #1 Thing To Do on TripAdvisor, our fantastic hosts will guide you through spirits tastings and teach you how to make your gin in our Gin School!
IT STARTED WITH A G&T
It began with three words: What you drinking? Jen replied: gin and tonic. On that cold, wet February evening in Manchester, Seb and Jen talked for hours about their hopes and dreams, about travelling, food, and of course, their mutual love of gin.
Two years later, ready to open their own bar, Jen and Seb discovered small-batch gin distillation which ignited the spark that is now Manchester Gin. From their dining room, Seb and Jen started distilling gin 60 litres at a time. Hoping to make 800 bottles a year, they distilled through the night and bottled, labelled and sold by day.
They went on to make 25,000 bottles from their dining room, which won a Gold at the Spirit Masters for micro-distillery. Now, just three years later, owned 50/50 between Seb and Jen, the Spirit of Manchester Distillery is a state-of-the-art distillery capable of producing a million bottles a year.
SIGNATURE Manchester Gin.
One of the most awarded gins in the country; made with local dandelion and burdock root and ten other specially sourced botanicals including orange, lemon, liquorice and ground almond.
NOSE
Good round citrus notes with a classic Juniper undertone.
PALATE
An initial citrus and juniper taste that develops into a depth of flavour underpinned by Dandelion and Burdock root.
FINISH
A smooth creamy finish with a delicate sweetness from liquorice.
RASPBERRY INFUSED Manchester Gin.
A delicately sweet gin that is perfect for a refreshing G&T. Our “Pink Manchester Gin” has a subtle aroma of the sweetest raspberries and an unmistakable soft pink hue.
NOSE
An unmistakable raspberry aroma with a trace of fresh citrus and aromatic juniper.
PALATE
A sweet yet subtle raspberry flavour, underpinned by a clear gin character.
FINISH
A slight floral tone is followed by our signature smooth finish.
WILD SPIRIT Manchester Gin.
A creamy, savoury gin with complex herbaceous notes. Inspired by walks through the woodlands of Manchester; we’ve taken out the citrus and sweeter notes from our Signature gin and instead used sage, thyme, orris and lemon balm.
NOSE
Subtle eucalyptus gives way to fresh pine and floral orris.
PALATE
Smooth sage is followed by warming, earthy Dandelion and Burdock.
FINISH
Aromatic juniper and spice leads into a classic crisp finish.
OVERBOARD Manchester Gin.
Our take on Navy Strength gin is a more intense version of our Signature blend. Cut at an impressive 57%, this is a delicious and vibrant gin, full of flavour and character. The higher ABV amplifies the citrus and intensifies the aromatic juniper.
NOSE
Vivid juniper and pine is met with fragrant citrus notes.
PALATE
A smooth liquorice start beautifully develops into a burst of lemon and orange.
FINISH
A surprisingly sweet finish with a hint of warming spice.
HAÇIENDA Manchester Gin.
This award-winning collaboration brings together two Manchester institutions: new and old. This is a fresh, lively gin that celebrates the city’s musical legacy.
NOSE
A burst of fresh lime and a baritone of juniper.
PALATE
Electrically charged zingy lemon and lime harmonise with a sherbet freshness and warming cassia.
FINISH
Spice from grains of paradise give a perfectly dry finish.
For gin lovers:
DISTILLERY TOUR AND GUIDED TASTING
45 mins | £30 per person
A guided tour and tasting to give you an insight into our distillery life.
We’ll take you on a tour of the distillery to give you an insight into what we’re so passionate about. With every part of our production done in-house, you’ll see first-hand what goes into making one of the most awarded gins in the country.
After this, we’ll guide you through sampling our gins to understand our flavour profiles and help you decide which your favourite is.
This Distillery Experience is also available as our Sunday Funday Experience which is available with our delicious roast dinner after your experience for just an additional £15 per-person.
WHAT YOU’LL GET:
- G&T on arrival
- Tutored tasting of four of our gins
- Guided tour of our distillery
- 10% off any shop purchases
For groups of 7 or more, please contact bookings@manchestergin.co.uk.
Distillery guests will get 10% off their bill in our bar and restaurant Three Little Words when dining from the a la carte.
For gin connoisseurs
GIN-MAKING EXPERIENCE – MAKE YOUR OWN GIN
2.5hrs | £95 per person
Join us for a fully immersive distillery tour and gin-making experience.
With a gin and tonic in hand, we’ll give you an insight into how we started, take you on a tour of our distillery and explain our production process to really give you a feel for our distillery life. We’ll then take you on a guided tasting of our gins to help you understand your palette, discover the styles of gin you prefer and also your favourite botanicals.
You’re then ready to learn the art of distilling gin. You’ll be guided through choosing your own botanicals, weighing each of them and finally distilling your own unique bottle to take home.
We’ll also give you an insight into what has made this incredible city so spectacular, by looking into some of the key events that have shaped not only this city, but the country too.
WHAT YOU’LL GET:
- G&T on arrival plus another during your experience
- Guided tour of our distillery
- A session in gin school
- Everything you need to make your own 700ml gin
- A bottle of your own gin to take home
- Tutored tasting of each of our gins
- 10% off any shop purchases
For groups of 7 or more, please contact bookings@manchestergin.co.uk.
Distillery guests will get 10% off their bill in our bar and restaurant Three Little Words when dining from the a la carte menu.
For the experimental
GIN-MAKING FOR TWO
2.5 HOURS | £135
Firstly join us for a guided tour & tasting in our distillery followed by a gin-making experience with someone you love.
You’ll be greeted with a gin & tonic upon arrival, we’ll then give you an insight into the art of distillation, take you on a tour of our distillery and explain our production process to really give you a feel for our distillery life, passion and our the love story behind our distillery. We’ll then take you on a guided tasting of our gins to help you understand your palette, discover new styles and types of gin you prefer and also your favourite botanicals for the perfect pairing.
You’re then ready to become a Master Distiller for the day. You’ll be guided through choosing your own botanicals together, weighing each of them and finally distilling your own unique bottle to take home. Please note, Gin Making for Two allows you to take home one bottle between two people.
This Distillery Experience is also available as our Sunday Funday Experience which is available with our delicious roast dinner after your experience for just an additional £30.
WHAT YOU’LL GET:
- G&T each on arrival
- Guided tour of our distillery
- A session in the gin school
- Everything you need to make your own gin together
- One bottle of your own 700ml gin to take home between two people
- Tutored tasting of each of our gins
- 10% off any shop purchases
For groups of 7 or more, please contact bookings@manchestergin.co.uk.
Distillery guests will get 10% off their bill in our bar and restaurant Three Little Words when dining from the a la carte menu.
For the adventurous
TASTE THE DISTILLERY
45 minutes to an hour | £30 per person
A guided tour and tasting of our spirits with an insight into the distillery life.
Your experience will begin with a drink of your choice upon arrival, ranging from rum, vodka and gin, followed by a tour and insight into the art of distillation and our passion for spirits. The tour will continue with a tasting of our award-winning spirits which include; One-Eyed Rebel Spiced Rum, Sphere English Vodka, Forty-Five Vermouth, our abSINthe – and, of course, a couple of Manchester Gin samples thrown in for good measure.
You will also get to know about the history behind them and explore new flavour profiles. This experience is perfect if you’re ready to expand your palette, if you’d like to join our tasting & tour but you like more than just gin, or if you’d just like to join us again for a new experience!
WHAT YOU’LL GET
- A drink of your choice from our range of distillery spirits upon arrival.
- A tutored tasting of six of our award-winning spirits.
- A guided tour of our distillery with an insight into the art & our love for distilling.
- 10% off in the distillery shop & our bar, Three Little Words
For groups of 7 or more, please contact bookings@manchestergin.co.uk.
Distillery guests will get 10% off their bill in our bar and restaurant Three Little Words when dining from the a la carte menu.
GIVE SOMEONE THE MANCHESTER GIN EXPERIENCE
Starting from £30
The perfect gift for the gin-lover in your life. Choose from our experiences as a gift or if you’ve not yet decided on a date:
- Gin-Making Experience
- Distillery Tour & Guided Tasting
Simply choose the experience you wish to give as a gift, or book without deciding on a date. When you or the recipient comes to pay, you can choose your date as usual, and use the gift voucher in place of payment.
Please read our gift voucher T&Cs before purchasing.
GIN-MAKING EXPERIENCE
2.5-3 hours | £95
Valid from January 2022
DISTILLERY TOUR & GUIDED TASTING
45 mins – 1 hour | £30
Don’t have a date? No worries. Simply choose the Gift Voucher tab instead of Tours; you or the recipient can redeem the voucher within 365 days of purchase.
Quintessential brands group.
Quintessential Brands 3-4A Little Portland St, London W1W 7JB, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Pioneering Spirits
Since 1761
With unrivalled heritage, and provenance dating back to 1761, Quintessential Brands Group was established in 2011 by Enzo Visone, former CEO of Gruppo Campari, and investment banker and entrepreneur, Warren Scott.
Quintessential Brands Group is an independent international spirits business, with an exciting and diverse portfolio of premium brands and world-class production capabilities in the UK, Ireland and France. With a global reach, and brand building capabilities, it distributes and supplies customers around the world.
Thomas Dakin Gin.
Thomas Dakin
Thomas Dakin is a small batch gin of unmistakable character handcrafted using the finest botanicals and inspired by Thomas Dakin, the forefather of quality English gin.
Handcrafted in a baby copper pot still, Thomas Dakin is a traditional juniper-led gin with notes of sweet orange and citrus, enlivened by an infusion of distinctive red cole (horseradish), a root botanical used in refreshing cordials in 18th century northern England, which gives our gin its long, lingering finish.
Thomas Dakin was a young entrepreneur who, at the age of 25, began distilling his gin in the north of England. In 1761, before the outset of the Industrial Revolution, he pioneered the development and refinement of high quality English gin, before anyone else. His inventive and enlightened outlook created a superior quality spirit and an unrivalled gin distilling heritage and legacy. No other gin has such a rich heritage. Thomas Dakin: the forefather of quality English gin
If all goes well, the new distillery could be welcoming its first visitors in Spring 2019.
G&J GREENALL, the Warrington-based drinks giant behind brands such as Opihr, Bloom and Thomas Dakin Gin, have submitted plans to build a new distillery on Lloyd Street in Manchester city centre.
If approved by the city council, the two floor gin distillery will occupy the former Arcon Housing offices and feature a bar and craft shop, a gin academy and visitor experience, and a Thomas Dakin ‘Amiable Club’ – which will function as a bar and ‘intimate live music space’.
David Hume, creator and director of Thomas Dakin Gin, which launched in Manchester 2015, promises that this new gin distillery will offer the chance to celebrate Mr Dakin – generally regarded as ‘the forefather of quality English gin.’
Speaking to Confidential, Hume said: “Manchester has been a real showcase for gin over the last few years. There are a few really good local brands and the Thomas Dakin Distillery experience will enhance that. The bar scene in Manchester is fantastic, so now is the right time.”
Didsbury Gin.
Didsbury Gin, Conavon Court, 12 Blackfriars St, Salford M3 5BQ, Verenigd Koninkrijk
THE CREATION OF
DIDSBURY GIN.
Like many of life’s brilliant ideas, this little light bulb moment happened between two best friends in a bar.
Liam and Mark, life-long gin lovers, had a friendship forged over countless nights drinking Gin & Tonics in a number of Didsbury establishments. They’d sampled many varieties from all over the world. Never completely satisfied, they simply couldn’t find what they were looking for – many of the options in the market were uninspiring.
Something was clearly missing. Our two gin connoisseurs craved a fresh, crisp taste. After finding that gap, they set about exploring how to create those vibrant flavours themselves. Following the production of a small batch of gin in Liam’s front room in Didsbury, a brand was born.
THE GIN!
Didsbury Gin is a range of lovingly hand-distilled, 100% natural fruit infused, vegan friendly gins. Our botanically infused original liquid is the base for all our zesty flavoured gin combinations. It’s gin, but not as you know it.
Didsbury Gin is a range of lovingly hand-distilled, 100% natural fruit infused, vegan friendly gins. Our botanically infused original liquid is the base for all our zesty flavoured gin combinations. It’s gin, but not as you know it.
We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we are serious about gin. Specifically, creating fruit-filled gin to meet our incredibly high standards. We use ethically sourced, quality natural ingredients to colour and flavour all of our gins because we are compelled to do ourselves proud. We are the product of our own scrupulous gin-sipping standards.
Our unique blend of botanicals rectified in environmentally friendly copper pot stills give rise to an exceptional citrus take on a London Dry, making our gin perfect for sipping neat, a classic G&T or in any of your favourite cocktails.
We’ve come a long way from the home still in our co-founder’s living room, where we refused to be limited by circumstance or expectation. Anything is possible, if you remain naturally curious.
Didsbury Gin. Life More Luscious.
Tameside Distillery.
Unit 3, Tameside Business Park, Building 7B, Windmill Ln, Denton, Manchester M34 3QS, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Our Story
It started with an idea and grew from there.
How It Began
Back in early 2018 we wondered how hard it could be to create our own gin.
So we bought a small copper alembic still from Portugal and started distilling from home in the kitchen. Technically illegal without a license from HMRC!
After dozens of experiments, we came up with a dry gin that we thought other people might like as well.
Popcorn Sutton, our copper alembic still from Portugal.
A Plan Comes Together
So we now have a gin we want to sell. How hard can it be to (legally) open a distillery?
Turns out much harder than we thought.
Cue over a year of research, visits to trade shows and speaking to lots of potential suppliers.
There’s a lot of permissions we need. Limited company, VAT registered, multiple HMRC licenses, planning permission, premises license to retail booze, personal license to sell booze, hygiene inspection by the council, trading standards compliance visit. And that’s not the full list!
Putting The Distillery Together
We had the funds to start a spirits brand and get somebody else to make it, or do it the hard way and actually open a distillery.
So we did something really stupid and decided to open our own distillery. Tameside’s first ever distillery it turns out.
The next challenge was to find premises that were suitable. Clean, good access, not too expensive. Easier said than done. After much searching, we found the ideal premises in July 2019.
Now what? We’ve never worked in a distillery before, so we didn’t know exactly what equipment we needed. More research, a ton of money spent and some long days (and nights). Bit by bit, we started turning an empty industrial unit into a fully working distillery.
We almost forgot about the finished product. We needed ingredients, bottles, stoppers, capsules, labels, barcodes and boxes.
Fast forward to the end of November 2019 and we are good to go, with our very first product release: Tameside Gin.
Eric & Rhiannon, the production stills used to create our products.
Beyond Gin
We are not afraid to experiment. Walter White meets Willy Wonka.
Our experiments (and actual releases) also include rum, vodka and liqueurs. Plus other concoctions we don’t know what to call!
Not all of our creations see the light of day as an actual release. We hope you enjoy the ones that do.
Manchester Music Tour
Manchester has musical blood. From Joy Division and The Smiths to New Order, The Stone Roses and Oasis, this is just a selection of the many artists and bands that the city has produced. Manchester Music Tours organizes various music tours around the city. You can choose from an Oasis tour, The Smiths Tour or Joy Division tour. Fun fact: the tours were set up by Craig Gill, drummer of Inspiral Carpets, another band from Manchester.
Manchester City and Manchester United.
This city is home to two of the best football teams in the world. So get a ticket for an exciting football match of Man City or Man United. Or enter the hallowed grounds of the Old Trafford (Manchester United) or Etihad Stadium (Man City) stadiums on a guided tour. You then take a look at the turf, the changing rooms and catacombs. Also visit the National Football Museum, which is mainly dedicated to the history of English football.
Man City
Etihad Stadium Man City
Manchester City is today announcing that it has submitted a planning application to Manchester City Council for the development of a best-in-class fan experience and year-round entertainment and leisure destination at the Etihad Stadium.
This follows the conclusion of the Club’s consultation held between Tuesday 28 February and Sunday 26 March, where fans and the local community were invited to share their feedback on concepts and designs.
Having reviewed all of the feedback submitted via the consultation questionnaire, the Club is delighted to confirm that fans were in favour of the concepts and proposals presented.
Proposals include several connected all-weather facilities, fully integrated into the stadium, centred around an expanded North Stand with one larger, single upper tier above the existing lower tier, increasing capacity to over 60,000. Above the upper tier, a sky bar with views overlooking the pitch has been introduced, together with a stadium roof walk experience.
Man United
English professional football (soccer) team based in Manchester, England. Nicknamed “the Red Devils” for its distinctive red jerseys, it is one of the richest and best-supported football clubs not only in England but in the entire world. The club has won the English top-division league championship a record 20 times and the Football Association (FA) Cup 12 times.
The club was formed as Newton Heath LYR in 1878 by workers from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Renamed Manchester United in 1902, the club won its first English league championship in 1907–08. In 1910 the club moved from its old Bank Street ground into Old Trafford stadium, which has served as the team’s home ever since.
Old trafford
Old Trafford is a district of Stretford, Greater Manchester (England) and the name of two sports stadiums in that district, the football stadium and the cricket stadium Old Trafford Cricket Ground.
