Jennings Brewery
Jennings is an independent brewery in Cockermouth, Cumbria. John Jennings founded it in 1828 in the village of Lorton, and it has stood at the Castle Brewery beneath Cockermouth Castle since 1874. The beers are brewed with water from the brewery's own well and its own yeast, where the Rivers Cocker and Derwent meet. The range runs from Cumberland Ale and Sneck Lifter to Cocker Hoop, Castle Bitter and Jennings Helles, with seasonals and hop-forward cans alongside.
Beers by Jennings Brewery
8 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Jennings Brewery brew a broad range across 5 style families.
Across these 8 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
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About Jennings Brewery
Jennings is an independent brewery in Cockermouth, Cumbria. John Jennings founded it in 1828 in the village of Lorton, and it has stood at the Castle Brewery beneath Cockermouth Castle since 1874. The beers are brewed with water from the brewery's own well and its own yeast, where the Rivers Cocker and Derwent meet. The range runs from Cumberland Ale and Sneck Lifter to Cocker Hoop, Castle Bitter and Jennings Helles, with seasonals and hop-forward cans alongside.
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