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
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.
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 7.5
Bottle 0,5 ltr: Clear dark amber colored brew with an sweet bitter taste with notabel sourness by wood. Hints of caramel, dried fruit, nuts, roasted malts and oak.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2025
at 21:34
6.5/10
550ml, bottle.
Little to no white head. Not a lot of bubbles neither. Maybe my bottle was expired? :(
Little to no white head. Not a lot of bubbles neither. Maybe my bottle was expired? :(
Tried
from Bottle
at
Sörök Háza
on 01 Oct 2025
at 12:24
9/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2025
at 08:59
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle to glass. Have had every so often and first rating. Faint rounded malt aroma. Slightly hazed amber/chestnut with sustained light tan head. Flavor is rich malt. Nice.
Tried
on 17 Sep 2025
at 04:01
5.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Keg at the Cramond Inn, after a cycle to get there. Nice to see the place reopened. Pours like John Smith's Smoothflow, perhaps a shade darker. Malty and lightly spiced aromas. Taste is more of the same. Thin finish. Not as wassy as expected.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2025
at 06:39
7/10
Coffee, rich, some notes of liquorice
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2025
at 19:57
8/10
Chocolate, smooth, light. Good stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2025
at 19:55
6/10
Magus, mõru, karamelline, nats happeline. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2025
at 14:10
7/10
Mõru, röstine, kohcine, kreemine, happeline, magus. Ok.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Aug 2025
at 14:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers Graham! Amber brown colpur, off-white foam head and aroma of malt, toffee, fruit cake, wood, oak. Taste is sweet, malty, toffee, caramel, fruit loaf, raisins, with woody, oaky notes and nutty bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, malty nutty bitter finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
on 27 Jul 2025
at 20:05