# Samuel Smith — Tadcaster, North Yorkshire > Samuel Smith in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England scores 3.78 out of 5 — Fine, #4 in North Yorkshire. 37 beers tracked, mostly Stout / Porter. *Canonical page: · data updated 2026-09-01* Breadcrumb: Breweries → England → Leeds → Samuel Smith Samuel Smith is a brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England. We grade it Fine, with a score of 3.78 out of 5 on the beer it brews — #4 in North Yorkshire. Of the 37 beers we track, 54% are Stout / Porter and 11% Brown Ale. ## Rating - Score: 3.78 out of 5 - Grade: Fine 🙂 — Make genuinely good beer, if not the pint you will still be talking about next year. - Ranked: #4 in North Yorkshire · #162 in England · #6,918 worldwide - Popularity: Extremely widely rated - Beers tracked: 37 ## About Samuel Smith brews at the Old Brewery, Tadcaster – it is Yorkshire’s oldest brewery. Traditional methods of brewing have been retained at The Old Brewery. The brewery still has its own cooper making and repairing all its oak casks; all Samuel Smith’s naturally conditioned draught beer is handpulled from oak casks. The original well at The Old Brewery, sunk in 1758, is still in use, with the brewing water being drawn from 85 feet underground. Samuel Smith’s ales and stouts (except draught Sovereign and Extra Stout) are fermented in ‘stone Yorkshire squares’ fermenting vessels made of solid slabs of slate which give the beers a fuller bodied taste, using the same strain of yeast since the nineteenth century. All Samuel Smith’s beers are brewed solely from authentic natural ingredients without any chemical additives, raw material adjuncts, artificial sweeteners, colourings, flavourings or preservatives. All Samuel Smith’s beers and ciders are suitable for a vegan diet (except cask conditioned Old Brewery Bitter and bottled Yorkshire Stingo). ## What they brew - Stout / Porter — 54% of the beers we track - Brown Ale — 11% of the beers we track - Other — 10% of the beers we track - Pale Lager — 8% of the beers we track - Winter Ale — 6% of the beers we track - IPA — 6% of the beers we track - Cider — 5% of the beers we track ## Find them - Address: Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England - Coordinates: 53.883796, -1.261378 - Website: https://www.samuelsmithsbrewery.co.uk/ ## Same owner - [Melbourn Bros’ All Saints Brewery](https://finding.beer/brewery/melbourn-bros-all-saints-brewery-17189.md) — Stamford, England ## Breweries nearby - [John Smith’s](https://finding.beer/brewery/john-smiths-15096.md) — 2.81, Limited — Tadcaster, North Yorkshire — 0 mi away - [Crooked Brewing Limited](https://finding.beer/brewery/crooked-brewing-limited-15333.md) — 3.46, Poor — Leeds, North Yorkshire — 4.2 mi away - [Lotherton](https://finding.beer/brewery/lotherton-30999.md) — 2.87, Poor — Leeds, West Yorkshire — 5.1 mi away - [Wetherby Brew Co](https://finding.beer/brewery/wetherby-brew-co-19886.md) — 3.47, Poor — Wetherby, West Yorkshire — 5.9 mi away - [Rudgate Brewery](https://finding.beer/brewery/rudgate-brewery-8830.md) — 2.98, Limited — York, North Yorkshire — 5.9 mi away - [Bosun's Brewing Company](https://finding.beer/brewery/bosuns-brewing-company-15760.md) — 2.97, Limited — Wetherby, West Yorkshire — 6.1 mi away - [Ainsty Ales Brewery & Taproom](https://finding.beer/brewery/ainsty-ales-brewery-taproom-35386.md) — 2.91, Limited — York — 6.3 mi away - [Ainsty Ales Brewery & Taproom](https://finding.beer/brewery/ainsty-ales-brewery-taproom-5932.md) — 2.91, Limited — York — 6.3 mi away ## Rankings this brewery appears in - [Best breweries in Leeds, England](https://finding.beer/breweries/england/leeds.md) - [Best breweries in England](https://finding.beer/breweries/england.md) --- Finding Beer scores breweries on the beer they brew rather than on the venue. Method: . Rankings by place: . The iPhone app adds a live map of what is around you: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/finding-beer/id1082135126