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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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fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Organic Best Ale / Organically Produced Ale from Samuel Smith
22 years ago
5.5/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Golden color. Light aroma, with some honey and straw. Average body, with some malt and a bery strong bitterness. Pleasant, but somehow without personality, and a bit metallic.
Tried on 27 Oct 2003 at 08:57
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Organic Lager from Samuel Smith
22 years ago
4.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Blond to golden color; big head. Strange aroma: white sugar, hay, paper. Some malt taste, quite round, light honey. Short finish, yet correctly bitter. There was no need to propose this Organic brew…
Tried on 14 Oct 2003 at 04:16
RichTigers (5280) reviewed
India Ale from Samuel Smith
22 years ago
5.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Standard ale appearance with a standard hopped aroma. The flavour again is basically hopped. Overall a standard hopped ale.
Tried on 05 Oct 2003 at 15:25
RichTigers (5280) reviewed
Pure Brewed Organic Lager from Samuel Smith
22 years ago
6.1/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Flat lager appearance with a lager aroma mixed with a German wheat beer. The flavour is lightly hopped. Overall a plain lightly hopped lager.
Tried on 05 Oct 2003 at 15:22
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Imperial Stout from Samuel Smith
23 years ago
8.5/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
4 years old (not bottle conditioned)
Dark color, brown head. Aroma of liquorice, paper, malt, black pepper, coffee, toffee, hazelnuts; light tar, phenol…; very nice and complex. Strong mouthfeel, dominated by the liquorice, supported by some malt and replaced at the end by the roasted barley.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Sep 2003 at 06:30
Sloefmans (15815) reviewed
Oatmeal Stout from Samuel Smith
23 years ago
8.3/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8
Very dark brown, nearly black; dirty brown head, diminishing but permanent. Nose: chocolate - between milk and fondant (dark). Vague burnt malt/grain, licorice, sweet...and smelly socks. Taste is more cereal - indeed like oatmeal flakes. Chocolate returns in the background/palate, like slightly sweetened fondant. Chocolatey character, bitter-sweet, gains more emphasis in the finish, like a lesser chocolate with much non-cocoa additions. If I agree with anything in the general consensus, it's with its perfect balance - truly impressive. Aftertaste has a surprising new flavour: (French) candied violets. In the category "sweet stout", it's hard to imagine anything better... Oh for trying the St. Ambroise or the Nils Oskar...
Tried from Can on 27 Aug 2003 at 12:16
Clarkvv (17430) reviewed
India Ale from Samuel Smith
23 years ago
6.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Has a small white/off white head and a huge golden/amber color, with some bright orange tinges. Begins very flavorful. Hops abound along with a nice sweet malt flavor that mixes right in. The hops are just enough up front and then relax a bit while a wonderful even and sweet, but not overly caramelly sweet, malt sets in. There is perfect carbonation in the bottle. I can taste a variety of flavors. Nuts, grains, oranges, and of course hops. This is not knock your socks off IPA however, which is a nice change from some one-sided, all hops IPA’s. I dont see how people can complain about the relative less hoppy taste here. It hits right away and is fresh and complex. Just because this beer is not hops, hops, hops, extra hops and more hops, makes it better in my book. It has a nice round dry finish, but the beer has plenty of flavor before drying out and has lots of character. Clean crisp aroma, with even a bit of yeast and some piney/sugary notes.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jul 2003 at 15:36
Silphium (4337) reviewed
Taddy Porter from Samuel Smith
23 years ago
7.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Very devious, bottling your oatmeal stout under a different name, Sammy! Everything about this beer can be found in my review of the oatmeal stout. Sweet, malty, and roasty sums it up. Yet, strangely, why did I know exactly what this would taste like before I poured the bottle? Seems this way with all Samuel Smith products...
Tried from Can on 07 Jul 2003 at 17:46
pilsnerrogge (4915) reviewed
Organic Best Ale / Organically Produced Ale from Samuel Smith
23 years ago
6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Pale amber colour. Medium head. Smooth toffee aroma. Malty flavour with some hops. Quite easy drinking and tasty.
Tried on 22 Jun 2003 at 10:04
jgb9348 (12478) reviewed
Taddy Porter from Samuel Smith
23 years ago
6.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6
Very dark in colour, and i'm hesitant to say that its black, but I believe it is. Almost completely opaque, but some very dark shades of brown showing at the bottom. The head poured a nice light brown colour, but faded very quickly. The aroma is of metal, some chocolate and some coffee...actually not that pleasing. A full-bodied beer which starts out tasting like a ligher-bodied, full-flavoured beer, but then develops into a bitter, short ending beer. Not too complex in the taste, some roasted barley, malty characteristics...but nothing really noticable, other than that. I typically enjoy Sam Smith beers, but this one wasn't too great.
Tried on 20 Jun 2003 at 21:40