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Best brews
10:58am Friday 7th March 2008
Jennings Brewery, in the historic Cumbrian market town of Cockermouth, was established in 1828 by John Jennings, a local farmer, and remained an independent brewery until it was acquired by Marston's PLC in 2005.
Jennings Cumberland Ale 4% ABV RRP £1.69 This traditional ale has been brewed for more than 100 years using water drawn from the brewery's own well. It is a full-flavoured dark bitter with a delicate hop character which should appeal to the modern beer drinker.
Jennings Cocker Hoop 4.6% ABV RRP £1.89 This award-winning golden bitter, with its classic hop flavour and aroma was launched as a September ale in 1995, but proved so popular it is now available throughout the year. The name reflects the fact that the brewery sits on the banks of the River Cocker.
Jennings Sneck Lifter 5.1% ABV RRP £1.89 This award-winning dark beer is a strong and very satisfying ale, full of complex flavours. The name is derived from a man who was down to his last sixpence - but this enabled him to afford lift the latch (a sneck) of the pub door buy a drink, and hope that his friends might buy him one or two more!
Editor's choice
The Mole and Chicken, Easington, near Thame
One of the pictures on this page gives a good impression of the delights to be enjoyed at the Mole and Chicken on one of those sunny days that now seem as far as can be from our present situation.
Early taste of Christmas wine
Next week is The Oxford Times Wine Club Christmas Tasting and, with just four weeks to go until Christmas Day, it is an excellent opportunity to sample a specially-selected range of wines for the festive season.
Dylan Moran: New Theatre, Oxford
‘I was the first person to discover that if you infected a person with Marmite, he would stand up and bark at the moon.” “Everybody under the age of 35 has the intelligence of raspberry jam.” “Children can hear vegetables hiding.”
Sleeping Beauty, Chipping Norton Theatre
There’s nothing King Couer-de-Loup likes more than a good battle: “We’ll march on King Florizel’s wet and wicked army,” he proclaims. His Queen is not so sure, however. She would rather her husband stayed around: there’s the christening of their daughter Princess Aurora to arrange for a start. And he certainly can’t go out and fight looking like that: “Your chain mail’s got a ladder in it,” she wails.
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