Samuel Smith

Commercial Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 48 Venues

Established in 1758

Contact
The Old Brewery, High Street, Tadcaster, LS24 9SB, England
Subsidiaries
Samuel Smith owns 1 brewery/brand:
Description
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.

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5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Dark, ruby almost black pour, with a small beige head. Very sweet aroma, cocoa extract is evident, smells fake. Hard to find anything but sweet chocolate aroma. Even the roasty notes smell sweet. Mouth feel is thick and velvety. Finish is just more cloying sweetness, its like drinking chocolate milk. Not a fan.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:57

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Clear orange pour, big white head. Very sweet apricot aroma, floral honey, and light pale malts. Regular mouth feel and medium carb. The finish is not as sweet as the aroma leads on. The finish is lightly bitter, and a touch tart. The sweetness is quick, and dry, and pleasantly fruity. Nice stuff.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:56

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Ruby red pour, slightly pink head. Aroma of sweet juicy raspberry juice. Flavor is pretty much all raspberry juice with a touch of tartness near the finish. For all the men who have wives that hate beer buy a couple cases of this. If they still claim to not like beer they are liars and just doing it to spite you! For shame!
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:26

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Typical apple cider. Bright apples, some floral honey, and a little tart. Very refreshing and incredibly drinkable.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:24

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
very dark brown pour, aroma is very roasty, lots of roasted malt, and some hops, with a touch of ripe fruit. Flavour is sweet, and has a fruity tang. nice porter.
Tried on 27 Feb 2025 at 09:31

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
reall nice aroma of hops, and some grainy, malts. A very nice easy drinking lager, very well made, nice stuff.
Tried on 27 Feb 2025 at 09:31

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
very very similar to their india ale. actually i cant tell much of a difference, but still very very good, and very drinkable. goiod session ale.
Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2025 at 09:31

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Loads of pungent spicy english hops mingling with some great caramel malts. Superbly balanced, what a GREAT beer.
Tried on 27 Feb 2025 at 09:30

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
very very black, beige head. LOads of carbonation, i’m not used to that in an imperial, seeing how i’ve had so many american monsters in that category that pour like motor oil. Really nice roasty malt aroma, hint of coffee, and slight chocolate. Flavour is VERY roasty, and laced with coffee. Again, doesnt seem very imperial beside the american monsters, but this was around way before those, and this is an original impy, so i give it points for that!
Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2025 at 06:12

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
clear amber color. typical english hop aroma. flavour is bitter with the typical english hopppiness. Some spice comes though, I find it quite similar to the pale ale. over all nice, but not mind blowing.
Tried on 27 Feb 2025 at 06:11