Samuel Smiths Stingo

Established in 1758, Samuel Smith is Yorkshire’s oldest brewery.  They brew a wide range of high quality beers made solely from authentic, natural ingredients. They still use stone Yorkshire squares to ferment their ales and stouts (with the exception of Sovereign and Extra Stout) as well as the same yeast strain used since the 1800s. Some of the oak casks at the brewery date back more than a century, with the individual oak staves being replaced by the Old Brewery coopers over the years. Gradually the casks soak in more and  more of the character of the ale fermented in stone Yorkshire squares. Yorkshire Stingo is aged for at least a year, matured in these well-used oak casks in the brewery’s underground cellars deriving fruit, raisin, treacle toffee, Christmas pudding and slight oaky flavours, before being further naturally conditioned in bottle.