About
Yorkshire’s Oldest Brewery. Samuel Smith brews a wide range of high quality beers, solely from authentic natural ingredients. The brewery still uses stone Yorkshire squares to ferment all its ales and stouts (except Sovereign and Extra Stout) and the same yeast strain has been used since the 1800s. Whole dried English hop varieties such as Fuggles and Goldings are used to add bitterness and aroma to Samuel Smith’s traditional ales in the antique boiling coppers. Samuel Smith’s uses oak casks for all its naturally conditioned ale. The casks are made and repaired at the Old Brewery by the brewery’s two full time coopers.
Part of the group
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
14/6/2025. Bottle from Beautiful Beers, Bury St Edmunds. Pours clear dark amber brown with a small off-white head. Good pour. Aroma is fruit cake, dried fruits, toffee, biscuit, orange, oaky, butterscotch. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness. Medium plus body, smooth, average to soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Beautiful Beers
on 14 Jun 2025
at 17:09
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
This beer is a correct one, we could say that it is close to a Bavarian bock, a little smocked, malt, hop, well balanced, nuts at the final, 29.09.2016, drinking it at Prélaz, Lausanne.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2025
at 12:08
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5.5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pint at the Rising Sun in Smithfield. What used to be a great pub is now a shocker. They ran out of glasses! Anyway, managed to get a pint of this before they did. It's a stout with nothing bad or particularly good and there are many better ones out there.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 May 2025
at 13:12
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Amber brown pour. Not much head. Caramel, toffee rum raisins and oak and vanilla. Pretty thin mouthful.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 01:12
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Poured a pale fizzy yellow. Pretty standard aroma, taste was refreshing and not a whole bunch of alcohol. Pretty god.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 00:57
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Pours an amberish shade. Aroma is some caramel and hops. Taste is similare with a fair amount of bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 00:47
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Canned - rerating it in 2024. Brown pour, foamy white head. Mild chocolate and nutty flavors, mild hops. A good brew
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 00:46
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Pours Dark and lots of head. Cocolate and roasted malt aroma & taste. A bit of a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 00:46
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. Have never gotten around to rating this and was pleasantly surprised because I had forgotten what it tastes like. Anyway it is a coppery colored with some malts, very light and very drinkable, am torn between the lack of hops and bitterness being bad or pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 00:46
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Must have been an old one. Poured dark with a medium head but had a stenchiness more than an aroma, and a taste that just wasn’t right.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 00:46