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Jennings Brewery

United Kingdom · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of stylesWebsite
★ Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

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.

13Beers
6Styles
4.5%Avg ABV
1828Founded

Beers by Jennings Brewery

13 beers
Back Yam
Back Yam
Golden Ale · 4%
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Castle Bitter
Castle Bitter
Ordinary Bitter · 3.4%
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Cocker Hoop
Cocker Hoop
Golden Ale · 4.6%
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Lorton Ale
Lorton Ale
Strong Imperial Ale · 8.4%
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Red Breast
Red Breast
Winter Ale · 4.5%
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Sneck Lifter
Sneck Lifter
Strong Dark Ale · 5.1%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Jennings Brewery brew a broad range across 6 style families.

Signature · 13 beers
Pale Ale 6Amber 2Dark 2Lager 1IPA 1Strong 1

Across these 13 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

malty
11 of 13 beers
hoppy
10 of 13 beers
fruity
7 of 13 beers
clean
9 of 13 beers

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:

typical for similar stylesJennings Brewery
in no beersin every beer
spicy
in 6 of 13 · typical similar styles brewery: fewer than 1 in 5
Notably more spicy than typical.
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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Location
Cockermouth · England · United Kingdom
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