Manchester Trip : Seven Brothers Taproom in Salford (and Richard’s Uber Score)

Let’s start this post with a little story. I’m not really a taxi person, I think I’ve got a taxi (that I’ve paid for) around ten times in my life as I find them expensive, scary to order and just generally not something I need. However, Richard is very decadent and so uses them a lot. I mentioned in passing that you can see what score Uber drivers have given you as a customer in the app, and my rating is of course 5. Richard rushed to the app to check that his rating was 5, but it transpired to be much lower. I reassured Richard that they were likely just marking him down on his personality and not to take it personally, but I think he did. Anyway, with that bombshell, Richard booked us a taxi to take us all to Salford and tried his best to be extra nice to the taxi driver in an attempt to salvage his ailing rating.

Our hotel was in Salford, so we headed for the Seven Brothers taproom. I’m a fan of their beers, they’ve produced some intriguing and interesting flavoured pales, so I was pleased that we were able to visit here.

Ooooh, this looked appealing and I do sometimes feel like a kid in a candy shop when presented with choices such as this. I’d tried several of these beers before and I’ll note here just how good their honeycomb pale ale is.

This is the cleverly named Currant Affairs from Seven Brothers. It’s a fruity beer, blackcurrant to the fore and suitably sour.

I mentioned the honeycomb pale ale which I’ve had before, but this is the chocolate honeycomb stout. Like a liquid crunchie, the flavour of this was delicious, but for a 5.5% ABV beer I thought it was a little thin, but the aftertaste was decent.

This is yet another very well reviewed bar and our experiences were no different. The team members were friendly and knowledgeable, there was an excellent range of beers and the pricing was reasonable. The brewery name is actually Seven Bro7hers, but it always looks wrong when I type that, so I’ll stick with not adding a number into the middle of the word. There are actually seven brothers who set up the brewery, the McAvoy family, and they explain their reasoning for establishing it:

“The gateway brewery to craft beer. We brew and sell beer to those wanting to leave behind tasteless lagers for craft beer full of flavour, but struggle with confusing branding. We aspire to make your entry into the craft beer world fun and easy by being ‘clear with beer‘.”

Seems reasonable.

And then we walked back to the hotel, another really rather lovely day. Łukasz and Simon went off to do their own thing the following morning as one wanted a lie-in and the other needed to get back to London. But, not to fear, there are a few more posts in this series left, as there were still four of us left on the Sunday…..