Samuel Smiths Brewery - Tadcaster Address

[Max]

Anyone wishing to write to Mr H Smith (at his office), should do so at the following address..

Mr H Smith
Samuel Smith Old Brewery (Tadcaster)
The Old Brewery
High Street
Tadcaster
North Yorkshire
LS24 9SB

Telephone: 01937 832225
Facsimile: 01937 834673

Website: http://www.samuelsmithsbrewery.co.uk/

Some history..

The Old Brewery at Tadcaster was established in 1758.
Samuel Smith's is a small, independent brewery, brewing at the oldest brewery in Yorkshire.

The original well at the Old Brewery, sunk in 1758, is still in use. The brewing water for the ales and stouts is drawn from 85 feet underground.

The malt mixes with hard well water in copper mash-tuns. Fuggles and Goldings, the old fashioned varieties of hops that over the centuries have given the best British ales distinctive flavour are added later and boiled in 'coppers'.

Samuel Smith still ferments ale and stout in traditional Yorkshire stone 'squares' - roofed fermenting vessels made of solid blocks of slate. The yeast is of a strain that has been used at the Old Brewery continuously since the beginning of the last century, one of the oldest unchanged strains in the country, still as healthy and as active as ever frothing up into rich creamy heads.

The brewery cooper makes and repairs all the wooden casks used for the brewery's naturally conditioned 'Old Brewery Bitter'. Barrels, kilderkins and firkins are the traditional names used for the different sizes of casks, repaired with tools that have their names like 'patsy', 'chive' and 'adze'.

Grey shire horses weighing more than a ton each are kept in the stables at the Old Brewery making occasional deliveries of beer to a couple of pubs in the town.

Samuel Smith's Old Brewery is by far the smallest of the three breweries in Tadcaster.

Source: Tadcaster - Official Site

More history and pictures, HERE

[DarkieBoy]

It might be a silly question, knowing Sam Smith's, but is it still possible to tour the building?  The link below suggests (judging by the photos) that it was at least possible in the past.  I can image Humph having stopped the tours.

Has anyone ever been round the brewery?

DB.

[dogsboddy]

tours been stopped a few years now i think it was causing a bit of trouble around town after the tours by them who had afternoon visits and then stopped in town before taking them back and having to put up with them

[anthony]

     i wish to take a hand held TV/radio in my local smiths pub it measures 5inx3inx1in to watch the gold cup and have a pint do yo have a police against this

[DarkieBoy]

Hi there anthony, thank you for your post to the unofficial Sam Smith's forum.

If you were to take a handheld TV into a Samuel Smith's pub and watched it then unfortunately you would probably be in breach of the company policy.  Playing music is also not allowed in any pub as no PRS fees are paid, I believe.

As far as I am aware of no Samuel Smith's pub allows music or TV in the public area of the pub.  This is a measure to apparently save costs for the brewery.

Hope that helps?

DB.

[antthe2nd]

anthony the answer to this is yes you can ,but do it from the view of management its classed as coincidental and not planned, but have a pair of earphones ready to plug into device if council arrive and normally they are brain dead looking for ashtrays anyway, you are allowed by law to wear headphones in public,look at your laptop in public,we live in england not iran...or do we???