In 1886 Samuel’s son Samuel Smith inherited the Old Brewery on Williams death and re-opened the brewery under his own name where it still runs as an independent brewery to this day. The Smith family has quite the ale legacy. William bought out Samuel’s half and moved the brewery next door where another classic Yorkshire ale, John Smiths Bitter, is still brewed to this day. John was joined by his brother William and John left his share of the firm in the custodianship of his other brother, Samuel. In 1847, Samuel Smith (a cattle dealer for Leeds) asked his son John to purchase a struggling Tadcaster brewery owned by the Hartley family. The family owned brewery was not originally founded by the Smith’s. Founded in 1758, it is also Yorkshires oldest. Samuel Smith’s brewery is a classic Yorkshire brewery located in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. It was the time I transitioned from drinking beer at parties to really beginning to appreciate real-ale as an art. The manager (a rather scary Mancuian) took a liking to me and began to teach me the art of cellaring and before you know it I was handling the oak barrels in the cellar, learning how to tap and spile, prep the beer lines, and take care of these hand crafted brews. I must admit to having a significant bias to Sam Smith’s, at the age of 18 I got a job there. So far we have a Theakston Old Peculier (10/10), an Old Speckled Hen, a Left Over Old Ale (my own take on the Old Ale style using left over ingredients) and finally we get to the Samuel Smiths Nut Brown Ale I have been promising. So we reach our last brew in the Old and Browns series.
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