The oldest
brewery in
Yorkshire, and still an independent family
brewer. They are based in the town of
Tadcaster, where they were founded in 1758. Their beers are extraordinarily good, and are remarkably for being (at least slightly) better in the
bottle than on draught.
Their beers includes the following. Most of them are 5%; the Imperial Stout is 7%.
As well as the usual blather of hand-rearing the
hops and feeding them titbits from the dinner table, and teaching them to sit up and beg,
or whatever, as any small brewer would claim to do, Sam Smith's also maintain the use of a thing called
Yorkshire squares, a different method of
aeration of the
yeast from the usual practice elsewhere of skimming it from the top; and still made of stone (the local
slate) instead of the aluminium everyone else uses.
wertperch tells me the
Black Sheep Brewery make a beer called Yorkshire Square using this system.