Jennings (Marston's)

Regional Brewery in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Owned by Carlsberg Britvic

Established in 2005

Closed in 2022

Contact
Brewery Lane, Cockermouth, CA13 9NE, England
Description
2005 saw the acquisition of Jennings Brewery by Marston’s PLC.

In 2009, the Cockermouth floods had a huge impact on the business and the site, forcing Marston’s to implement flood safety features and barricades throughout the site. A few short years after the floods, brewing transferred out of the town and a mass rebrand occurred.

Marston's retrained ownership of the brewery (through Carlsberg UK) until it closed its doors in November 2022

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5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 5
500ml bottle. Pours orange amber with a small head. Aroma is skunky orange hops. Taste is some bread to start and skunky malt. Not the best, why the green bottles!?
Tried from Bottle on 21 Jan 2011 at 13:25

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
6th January 2009
BBE Aug 08 bottle strored cool and dark. Clear brown beer. Fairly standard bitter with an additional touch of toffee. Inoffensive but pretty dull.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Jan 2011 at 04:47

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4
12th January 2008
Dark ale. Toffeeish malt followed by a dry finish with just a hint of hop. Slightly hard work.
Tried on 09 Jan 2011 at 13:58

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask at the Bridge, Kungswinford. Pours light amber with a medium head. Aroma is light citrus hops and a hint of apple. Creamy start, pale malt finish and tiny amount of citrus hops in the aftertaste. Good session pint.
Tried from Cask on 06 Jan 2011 at 15:55

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Cask at the Fountain, Clent. Pours dark brown with a medium, creamy head. Aroma was nutmeg and Coke. Not much to start, Christmas spice, bready malt and a bit woody in the finish.
Tried from Cask on 03 Jan 2011 at 14:11

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask gravity at Ashford Rugby Club BF 2010. Gold, thin white head. It’s a decent golden bitter. Bit maltier than a standard golden ale. Very drinkable. It’s fine. OK malts. OK hop. Middle of the road beer.
Tried from Cask on 29 Dec 2010 at 07:14

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ Market Porter, 9 Stoney Street, Southwark, London, Greater London, England SE1 9AA.Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - roasted, apple notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, light acrid bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100802]
Tried from Cask on 26 Dec 2010 at 01:30

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
bottle clear brown, smooth large offwhite head. aroma: mild bitterness and hoppiness, quite typical "english" beer, some malts like sweetness, some dry caramel. flavor is slightly honey and flowery sweet, and balanced with a gentle dose of bitterness. Bit more flowery and sweet than many other bitters, but everything is balanced out nicely, high drinkabillity.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Dec 2010 at 13:14

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
bottle from kihoskh pours a clear amber, smooth offwhite to light brown head. metal, caramel, flowers and eggs is the first that hit my nose, aroma is fortunately better than the first impression, still it is some sort of breadish caramelly tightly bitter thing. flavor is bitter, very slightly citrussy or fruity powdered sugarish soruish, faint sweet malts, lots of bitterness as in any other british bitter. Pretty weird tasting bottle, something like usual english bitter, poured over a grapefruit with powdered sugar. End result being bitter with hints of grapefruit and powdered sugar.. strange..
Tried from Bottle on 08 Dec 2010 at 10:02

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Cask handpull at The Pheasant Ashford. Clear pale chestnut colour. Lasting creamy head from sparkler. Malty aroma. Lovely rich mid brown malts. I mean its a tasty malty best bitter. Ticks all the boxes with an extra one for being just damn good. The reason I like drinking bitter.
Tried from Cask on 05 Dec 2010 at 05:28