Jennings Sneck Lifter 2

When I first covered Sneck Lifter (5.1% abv) way back in April, I found the beer to be slightly unremarkable in bottled form. I could not relate my own tasting experience with others that I had found online (ok, this is true to a point, but I was probably not as serious in my posting back then as nobody read my blog!). Anyhow, whilst I was in ticker mode down at The Victoria last Wednesday night I managed to quaff a pint fresh from the cask. What can I say, it's like a totally different beer...... The first thing I would like to point out is that I have been quite harsh on Jenning's beers that I have had previously - and I have carried this through to commenting on others blogs as well. I think this stems from the fact that the brand is owned by Marston's and I think that the bottled beers are brewed under licence rather than up in Cumbria.

The cask version however is full of flavour. I am going to be bold here and suggest that the real deal (i.e. casks) are brewed in Cumbria and not in Burton-on-Trent. The beer is complex and has a strong smokey coffee flavour which works really well.

Anyhow, once again if you would like to find out more, just check out the website.

For what its worth, I went on and continued to drink Trade Winds till we got kicked out at closing time.