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Samuel Smith's Old Brewery

United Kingdom · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles
★ Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Samuel Smith's brews at the Old Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, which dates from 1758 and is the oldest brewery in the county. The Smith family took it over in 1847; it has carried Samuel Smith's name since 1886 and is still independent and family-owned. Brewing water comes from the original well, 85 feet deep, and ales and stouts ferment in open Yorkshire squares made of slate with a yeast strain kept since the nineteenth century. The house runs its own cooperage, delivers around the town by shire horse and pours its draught beer in roughly 200 pubs of its own.

16Beers
9Styles
5.4%Avg ABV
1758Founded

Beers by Samuel Smith's Old Brewery

16 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Samuel Smith's Old Brewery brew a broad range across 9 style families.

Signature · 16 beers
Fruit Beer 4Stout 3Dark 2Strong 2IPA 1Pale Ale 1Wheat Beer 1Lager 1Porter 1

Across these 16 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

malty
11 of 16 beers
fruity
10 of 16 beers
dry
10 of 16 beers
bitter
10 of 16 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:

typical for similar stylesSamuel Smith's Old Brewery
in no beersin every beer
dry
in 10 of 16 · typical similar styles brewery: 1 in 5
Far more dry than typical.
clean
in 2 of 16 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Notably less clean than typical.
caramel
in 9 of 16 · typical similar styles brewery: 1 in 5
Notably more caramel than typical.
How we measure this

Two thresholds are at work here:

  • The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
  • The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.

A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.

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About Samuel Smith's Old Brewery

Samuel Smith's brews at the Old Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, which dates from 1758 and is the oldest brewery in the county. The Smith family took it over in 1847; it has carried Samuel Smith's name since 1886 and is still independent and family-owned. Brewing water comes from the original well, 85 feet deep, and ales and stouts ferment in open Yorkshire squares made of slate with a yeast strain kept since the nineteenth century. The house runs its own cooperage, delivers around the town by shire horse and pours its draught beer in roughly 200 pubs of its own.

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Tadcaster · United Kingdom
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