{Rich flavoursome ale from Masham, brewed by the real Theakston}

{used to be 4.2%}

{used to be 5%}

Easingwold

Harrogate

Selby

Tadcaster

Phone: (01937) 832225
Sam Smith's
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.

Tower Brewery - Bass

The older buildings comprising of the Tower Brewery (famed for their Prize Medal bottled beer) were erected when Tadcaster Tower Brewery was founded in 1882. The Company was formed by a small group of 'honourable's', i.e. younger sons of baronets - hence the brewery became known locally as Snobs Brewery. The building site was bought from the (then) North Eastern Railway Company who had purchased the land from the local squire, Sir Edward Brooksbank, when Tadcaster was planned to be linked with the main network of railways in the North East. Sadly this project never came to fruition.

In 1946 Hammonds Bradford Brewery Co purchased the Tadcaster Tower Brewery Company. With more than 700 pubs the company was one of the largest brewing concerns in the country and it was decided to rename the company to Hammonds United Breweries Limited. In the late 1950's it was clear that the Tower Brewery was better placed for the expansion necessary to cope with increased demand, and it was decided to go ahead with the construction of a new bottling store. It was completed with 1959 together with a new administration block - this was the first substantial improvement since the brewery was built.

Thirsk

Tockwith

Whitby

York