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  • Manchester Rum Festival 2024

    Last Saturday saw me striding in and (not quite) crawling out of this year’s Manchester Rum Festival. New year, new location; New Century Hall! me It’s been three years since my last foray into this very fine festival which is incredibly into its 8th year, and yet still, STILL, so many rums to try! The

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  • Review: Manchester Rum Festival

    Rum and Rummer. A rum do Comfortably numb. From rum. Dare I say young, dumb and full of rum? Seems I do. Ok the puns are out of my system now. Which is hopefully also the case for the sheer amount of rum I consumed last Saturday at the Mercure Hotel, Piccadilly Gardens. The Manchester

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  • Exclusive Manchester rum for lucky festival-goers this weekend

    If you’re heading to Manchester Rum Festival this weekend [Saturday 28th August] you’re in for a very exclusive treat. Festival owner Dave Marsland and The City of Manchester Distillery have created an entirely unique, never-tasted-before rum solely for ticket holders. Just 100 bottles of The Double Distillery Pot Limited Edition Column Still Rum will be available

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  • It’s a Rum Do in Manchester as Festival returns this August bank holiday

    2020…events…pandemic…cancellations and so on and so forth. Stick a pin in that. It’s 2021, it’s the August bank holiday weekend and the Manchester Rum Festival is on! Bringing with it over 30 rum brands from around the world, this year’s festival takes place in the 4-star Mercure Hotel on Saturday 28 August, at the heart

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