Scranchester x Manchester Union Lager (special collaboration tour)
Carmel Smickersgill, Tours & Activities Editor
Scranchester is one of our faves here at the good ship Creative Tourist. Tour guide Rob’s passion for culinary history and curiosity about Manchester’s food scene is infectious. Here is a guide who understands that what we eat shapes our culture, the ways we connect with each other and how we socialise. It therefore makes all the sense to do a one-off collaboration tour which centres around a particular beverage involved in so many of our social lives. Dive into the craft of Manchester’s first and only lager brewery with a Scranchester and Manchester Union Larger crossover episode of a walking tour.
Over the course of a relaxed Sunday afternoon you’ll visit four top food establishments, each with a different variety of Manchester Union on tap. At each stop they’ll be something to eat paired with a pint of lager, so definitely arrive hungry!
Like all good collabs, there will be some to and fro between Rob and one of the brewers from Manchester Union. As you walk between stops expect to hear fascinating tales from both Manchester’s past and the history of lager across Europe. “Like most of the food and drink we have ‘invented’”, Rob says, “it’s tied up in all kinds of aspects of human history.”
Once you arrive at each destination the baton will be passed to Manchester Union where you’ll hear about the brewing process as well as the history of the brewery. Like most beers, lager is an umbrella term for a range of methodologies and ingredients. You’ll discover why Manchester Union are one of the only a handful of UK breweries to use the decoction method. As you sample the different lagers it’ll become clear how subtle changes in the brewing process can produce radically different drinks, each with their own personality.
A gloriously local walking tour drawing on internationally cultivated food culture, while putting a very Mancunian slant on it.
