An updated version of a film produced for Samuel Smith Breweries by Turners Film & Video Productions focusing on bottled rather than cask beers produced by the company. Sequences from the original film are intercut with new footage featuring Yorkshire born beer writer Michael Jackson visiting the brewery in Tadcaster, sampling a selection of the bottled beers and providing his opinion. In the cellar of the Samuel Smith’s Brewery in Tadcaster a man in brown work suit rolls a wooden barrel...

An updated version of a film produced for Samuel Smith Breweries by Turners Film & Video Productions focusing on bottled rather than cask beers produced by the company. Sequences from the original film are intercut with new footage featuring Yorkshire born beer writer Michael Jackson visiting the brewery in Tadcaster, sampling a selection of the bottled beers and providing his opinion. In the cellar of the Samuel Smith’s Brewery in Tadcaster a man in brown work suit rolls a wooden barrel of beer across the floor using long stick. Title: Beer Brewed at Yorkshire’s Oldest Brewery Outside, four dray houses pull a Samuel Smith wagon containing a number of beer barrels across Tadcaster Bridge. At York Railway Station a northbound Inter-City 125 train pulls into the platform. As other passengers wait on a different platform, Yorkshire born beer writer Michael Jackson climbs off the train and is greeted by a representative of Samuel Smith’s Brewery. The two men shake hands. From the exterior a view of the Rose Window of York Minster followed by shops and pedestrians walking around the Shambles. Two women and a small boy ride past in horse and carriage. Back at York Railway Station Michael Jackson, carrying a large metal case, makes his way to the exit chatting with the man who greeted him. The front cover of ‘The Thinking Drinker’, a book written by Michael Jackson is followed by other publications from around the world featuring his writing. A car containing Mr Jackson crosses Tadcaster Bridge and pulls up outside The Old Brewery in Tadcaster, the home of Samuel Smith. Heading inside Michael is greeted by Samuel Smiths Brew master Alistair Moss, they shake hands and stand chatting for a minute. A man holding a lantern on a rope lowers it into a well containing Tadcaster water. A pipe leads from the well to the brewery tower. In the cellar again, oak barrels are filled with beer before being sealed and rolled away for storage. Alistair Moss leads Michael Jackson to the cellar bar passing a worker pushing a barrel past. A bottle of pale ale is opened and poured into a Samuel Smith glass. Michael Jackson picks up the glass and looks at the beers colour and sniffs the aroma before consuming it. A series of bottled beers produced by Samuel Smith are laid out on shelves, a woman takes a pack of six bottles from a shelf where a male cashier places it into a plastic bag. In a field a combined harvester harvests a crop of barley, at the brewery the barley is processes in a large machine removing the husks. Three trays are laid out on the floor containing the three constituent parts: the starch, the malting and the crushed grain or ‘grist’. The film goes through the brewery process to create beer which is then barrelled. Michael Jackson and Alistair Moss walk through the brewery yard chatting before entering and looking around the modern bottling plant. Various types of bottles beer have their labels and tops added before being placed in cardboard boxes for shipping. A forklift is used to load a pallet of boxes onto a lorry which departs carrying a large shipping container. Back in the cellar bar a bottle of Oatmeal Stout is poured into a glass for Michael Jackson who talks about its colour and aroma before taking a drink. Alistair Moss behind the bar nods in agreement, Michael begins to talk about other beers produced by Samuel Smith intercut with advertising pictures of said drink. In a workshop a cooper works to create an oak barrel for Samuel Smith Beer while at a forge a farrier fits a shoe for a horse. Michael Jackson and Alistair Moss walk along a Tadcaster street and enter a Samuel Smith public house. Inside a barman pulls a pint of beer, sitting at a table nearby Michael Jackson making notes in a book. Alistair Moss comes over with a tray containing two bottles of Imperial Stout which they both pour into their glasses. They toast Michael’s return to Yorkshire before taking a drink. Michael points to his metal case sitting on a stool beside them, inside a selection of Samuel Smith bottled beers which is taking away. Two shire horses pull a Samuel Smith wagon containing barrels of beer into a Yorkshire village. The wagon pulls up outside the ‘Hare & Hounds’ public house and the film ends with a barrel being unloaded by a workman. End credit: Produced for Merchant du Vin Corporation, Seattle, Washington End credit: by Turners Film & Video Productions England End credit: Samuel Smith. The Oldest Brewery, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire