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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

John Smith's Extra Smooth Ale

In stock at Forsyth and New Ballas.


John Smiths Extra Smooth...$7.99 / 4 pack cans
(with nitrogen widget)
John Smith’s Extra Smooth was launched in 1993 and is now the nation's number 1 ale. The boffins say it has a distinct cereal character, with malty, caramel notes being complemented by some fruitiness. But we just think it’s a right good pint. (3.8% ABV).

About the Brewery
John Smith’s Extra Smooth Ale is brewed out of the John Smith’s brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire England. The brewery was founded in 1758 and produces apx. 47 million cases of beer per year. John Smith’s Extra Smooth is the largest of the brands and is the #1 selling ale in the world.

The Style
John Smiths is a nitrogenated pub ale. It is made with a combination of hop pellets, from the varieties Target, Admiral and Magnum, as well as post-fermentation hop extract from a range of high bitterness hop varieties such as Magnum, Target, Taurus and Tomahawk. It is 100% grown and malted in the UK with small amounts of roasted malt and UK wheat.


From Wikipedia
John Smith's Brewery (John Smith Ltd) is a brewing company that traces its origins to the founding of the Backhouse & Hartley brewery in 1778 at Tadcaster in North Yorkshire, England. John Smith purchased the brewery in 1847. The company grew to be one of the largest regional brewers in the country, owning over 1800 outlets for their beer. The company was taken over by Courage in 1970 who extended distribution of the beer nationwide. Courage were taken over by Scottish & Newcastle in 1995, by which time John Smith's was the highest selling ale brand in the country. S&N were taken over by Heineken in 2008.

The brewery is known for producing John Smith's Bitter, which is the highest selling ale brand in the United Kingdom, and the sixth highest selling beer overall. The majority of John Smith's sales are of the nitrogenated Extra Smooth variant, although a cask conditioned variant is also available, particularly in the beer's Yorkshire heartland.

Although the company is no longer independent, the John Smith's Tadcaster Brewery site has been maintained, and it remains the location where the majority of John Smith's is still brewed, as well as brewing a range of Heineken UK products.

John Smith was born on 18 March 1824; the eldest of five children of Samuel Smith....
Smith died at Tadcaster on 9 September 1879 leaving an estate...inherited by his two brothers, William (described as a gentleman) and Samuel Smith (a tanner)." -- Wikipedia


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