Editing John Smith's Brewery (section)

== Brewery ==
[[File:Football Field and John Smith's brewery - geograph.org.uk - 54539.jpg|thumb|Modern buildings of the John Smith's Brewery.]]
The brewery brews 3.8 million hectolitres annually (1.3 million of which is John Smith's beer), and employed around 300 people in 2008.<ref name="yorkshirepost1">{{cite news|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/features/brought_to_book_the_brewers_who_made_a_name_for_themselves_1_2471455 |title=Brought To Book, The Brewers Who Made a Name for Themselves|work= Yorkshire Post |access-date= 23 June 2012}}</ref> It has two keg lines, two bottle lines and one canning line.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.hse.gov.uk/involvement/doyourbit/case-study-john-smiths.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101110154127/http://www.hse.gov.uk/involvement/doyourbit/case-study-john-smiths.htm |url-status= dead |archive-date= 10 November 2010 |title= Do Your Bit – Case Study: John Smith's |access-date= 9 November 2011 }}</ref> It currently brews and packages the ale brands John Smith's Original, John Smith's Extra Smooth and [[Newcastle Brown Ale]], and the lager brands [[Foster's Lager|Foster's]], [[Kronenbourg 1664]] (Kronenbourg is a [[Carlsberg Group|Carlsberg]]-owned brand brewed under license by Heineken in the UK),<ref>{{cite news |work=Morning Advertiser |url=https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2008/01/31/Heineken-s-hopes-for-the-future |title=Heineken's hopes for the future |date=31 January 2008 |access-date=2020-04-23}}</ref> [[Amstel]] and [[Tiger]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/business-news/s_amp_n_quiet_on_brewery_s_future_as_profits_go_flat_1_2539880 |title=S&N quiet on brewery's future as profits go flat|work=Yorkshire Post |date=24 February 2004 |access-date=13 September 2012}}</ref><ref name=tutor>{{cite web|last=Hardman|first=Michael|title=When Copenhagen means Northampton|url=http://www.thebeertutor.co.uk/foreign-2/|publisher=Beer Tutor|access-date=28 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140211095545/http://www.thebeertutor.co.uk/foreign-2/|archive-date=11 February 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

[[Slate]] [[Yorkshire Square]] brewing vessels were used at the brewery from 1913 until 1975.<ref name=autogenerated6>{{cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/gazetteer-breweries/bhs-operating-breweries.pdf |title=Gazetteer of operating pre-1940 breweries in England |access-date=13 September 2012}}</ref> [[Stainless steel]] Yorkshire Squares were in use by at least 1953, but were removed in the 1980s, and the brewery now uses conical tanks.<ref name=autogenerated6 /><ref name=ellis3>{{cite book|last=Ellis|first=Aytoun|title=Yorkshire Magnet|year=1953|location=Tadcaster|page=41}}</ref> By 1953, the brewery site occupied 20 acres.<ref>"John Smith's Tadcaster Brewery Company, Limited." Times [London, England] 12 May 1953: 11.</ref>

Wooden casks were still in use in the 1960s.<ref name=autogenerated8 /> The cask beer line was removed in 1976, but restored in 1984.<ref>John Smith and his Tadcaster brewery, Ward & Tattersall-Walker, p30</ref> A new canning line and a new brewhouse were installed around 1982.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Country Market Survey |date=December 1982 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015085113192;view=1up;seq=12 |title=Beverage Manufacturing|page=14|access-date=20 November 2018}}</ref>

In 1984 the original brewhouse was converted into a brewery museum.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.garycorbinwriting.com/index_files/johnsmith.pdf |title=The John Smith Brewery in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England |access-date=13 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054318/http://www.garycorbinwriting.com/index_files/johnsmith.pdf |archive-date=21 September 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In November 1985 a new £5 million brewhouse opened.<ref name=Derek>{{cite news|last=Harris|first=Derek|title=Australia brews change for beerage|newspaper=The Times|date=19 September 1986}}</ref> Production of Foster's Lager began in 1987.<ref name=gibbs/> By 1989 the brewery had a production capacity of 1.2 million barrels per annum.<ref>1988/89 Cm 654 The Monopolies and Mergers Commission. Elders IXL Ltd and Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Plc. A report on the merger situations</ref> [[Scottish & Newcastle]] used the John Smith's Brewery to brew many of its ale brands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Heritage-means-little-to-the-marketing-men |title=Heritage means little to the marketing men |date=23 March 2011 |publisher=Morningadvertiser.co.uk |access-date=13 September 2012}}</ref> In 2004, a new £24 million bottling facility was opened in 2004, described as the most modern bottling facility in Europe.<ref name=autogenerated7>[http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Company-City-News/Scottish-Courage-gets-new-bottling-factory Scottish Courage gets new bottling factory<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054018/http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Company-City-News/Scottish-Courage-gets-new-bottling-factory |date=21 September 2013 }}</ref>