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Our Regular Ales include the following:

Cumberland Ale (4.0% Vol)

Tasting Notes :

A superb golden coloured ale, brewed with malt made from specially selected Maris Otter barley and using only the finest English aromatic hops. Traditionally brewed for over a hundred years, using pure Lakeland water drawn from the brewery’s own well. A full flavoured beer with a delicate hop character, makes this beer ideal for the demanding, modern beer drinker. Cumberland Ale has become a firm favourite nationwide and is Jennings best selling brand outside the Lake District.


Best Bitter (3.8 % Vol)

Tasting Notes :

Nose Tempting hop aroma with fruit notes.
Palate Good malt feel in the mouth, dry, tangy fruit finish.
Comments Delicious, easy drinking slightly tart pale bitter.
History Our first brew and still our top seller, Ringwood Best accounts for over 60% of our production.

Best Bitter won a Bronze Medal at the Munich Beer Festival in September 2005

Sneck Lifter (5.1% Vol)

An award winning beer, receiving a Bronze at the 2005 Brewing Industry International Awards held in Munich. A dark beer with a reddish tinge, derived from the use of coloured malts, perfectly balanced with specially formulated brewing sugars and English aromatic hops. A strong, satisfying ale, wonderfully warming and full of complex flavours, which create an intriguing beer of great character.

First introduced in 1990 as a winter warmer, Jennings Sneck Lifter has become a firm favourite in the portfolio. In northern dialect sneck means door latch and a sneck lifter was a man’s last sixpence which enabled him to lift the latch of a pub door and buy himself a pint, hoping to meet friends there who might treat him to one or two more.

 

 

 
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