Samuel Smith

The brewery draws water from its original well, pumped from an underground limestone source approximately 85 feet below ground. Beers are brewed from natural ingredients and fermented in Yorkshire Squares, traditional vessels made from Welsh slate. Samuel Smith is one of the few remaining British breweries still to employ this fermentation method, and uses a proprietary yeast strain dating from the early 1900s.

A team of dapple-grey Shire Horses continues to pull horse-drawn drays for deliveries around Tadcaster. The brewery operates over 200 pubs, which ban music, television and mobile devices, and since 2000 have not displayed the Samuel Smith name on their signage.

Samuel Smith was the first brewery to be imported into the United States by Merchant du Vin, and its bottled beers influenced American craft brewers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The brewery exported its first kegs to the United States in October 2017 and converted from a limited liability to an unlimited company in 1982. The alcohol-free beer brings the brewery's traditional brewing character to sober-curious drinkers and designated drivers. Samuel Smith remains one of the few independent exporting breweries in England.