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Return to John Smith's Tadcaster Brewery Co. Ltd
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In 1758 innkeeper David Backhouse and local postmaster John Hartley built a brewhouse where the Angel and White Horse is situated today on Tadcaster High Street
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This aerial view shows John Smith occupies the left hand two thirds of the site to the south while Sam Smith is on the right. Note the roadway leading to Sam’s bisecting John’s operations.
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Samuel Smith was a Leeds butcher and cattle dealer. In 1847 he bought B&H for his eldest son John who was aged 23.
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John Smith died suddenly in 1879 with no children and left the business to his brothers William and Samuel.
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William bought Samuel's share and then willed his business to nephews Frank and Henry Riley
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William embarked on a £130,000 160 quarter brewery next door which was completed in 1883
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The buildings are now Grade II listed
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William's monogram
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Looking back across the original Leeds to York road.
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A public road bisects the John Smiths site
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The distinctive brewery stack and some conical fermenters
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An unusual view of the iconic stone brewery chimney
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No sign of any Heineken logos
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Entrance to the office block
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Other descendents of the original Sam Smith would carry on the business just down the road towards York
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Cornerstone laid by William Smith
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Cornerstone laid by Frank Riley, William's nephew. He would later change his name to Riley Smith
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Malt hoist
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John Smiths was the UK's leading ale brand in 2008 with sales of around 2.4mhL
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A drawing by Scamell and Colyer showing the design of the 160 quarter brewery.
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Muntons wagon delivering malt
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Details of malt discharge
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A modern Steels masher will do ten 17.5 tonne mashes daily.
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The Briggs 10m lauter tun in the foreground dates from 1985 with a Steinecker unit from 1996 behind
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Two 1100 hL coppers and a single whirlpool
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Another view of the lauter tuns
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The brewhouse is located in the old fermenting room which housed 57 x 196brl slate squares.
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The control panel room
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Wort heat exchangers
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Two Yorkshire slate squares have been preserved
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Sadly visitors do not see them
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Detail showing the top floor of the square
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The yeast head emerges through the hole and yeast separates on the top floor, wort drains back below through 'organ pipes'
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Now you know
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Modern conical bottomed vessels
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More recent vessels are fully piped
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Old vessels connect with flexible hoses
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More conicals, 11 vessels were relocated from Websters at Halifax
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Powder dosing tanks for filtration
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One of three 400bph Seitz Orion beer filters
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A typical pipe array in a modern brewery
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Full cans of John Smiths Bitter
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Incoming glass bottles
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View across the can line conveyors
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The two 50,000bph bottling lines are by SIG Simonazzi and prominent brand posters
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Bottle conveyors
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Automated Guided Vehicle are used throughout the packaging hall
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AGV close up
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AGV going about its business
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The cardboard boxes contain bottle caps from Pelliconi in Italy
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Imogen will be 16 now and might like to reissue her poster against corona virus!
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View across the canning line which will fill 1500 a minute without widgets
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KHS Contikeg rotary keg washer and racker will fill 1000 50L kegs an hour
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Tankers come and go
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More tankers
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Dynamo System is a French widget
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The on site effluent plant managed by Veolia
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Gas vaporisor blocks
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The on site nitrogen generator by Air Products
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The site layout
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QA tasting room
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Quality Improvement Manager Alistair Dickson changes a cask