Charles, Gemma (19 August 2008). "John Smith's launches 'Finest Hour' ale to mark RAF anniversary". Marketing magazine . Retrieved 3 September 2012. The firm expanded throughout the 1880s by creating an agency network, establishing sixteen offices in nearby settlements, and offering free trade discounts on their beer of 20 per cent or higher. [6] The brewery had an annual output of 150,000 barrels by 1889. [11] In 1889, the company's first scientifically-trained head brewer was appointed, Percy Clinch, son of Charles Clinch of the Eagle Brewery in Witney. [12] In 1892, the partnership became a limited company called John Smith's Tadcaster Brewery Company Limited, with Henry Herbert Riley-Smith as chairman. [13] In 1899 the company acquired Simpson & Co of Market Weighton, with 51 public houses, and converted the brewery into a maltings. [14] [15] Huntingdonshire CAMRA, Opening Times 137". huntscamra2.org.uk. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014 . Retrieved 19 September 2016.

S&N quiet on brewery's future as profits go flat". Yorkshire Post. 24 February 2004 . Retrieved 13 September 2012. John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England, produces beers including John Smith's, the highest selling bitter in the United Kingdom since the mid-1990s. Barnard, Alfred (1889). The Noted Breweries of Great Britain & Ireland (PDF) . Retrieved 18 April 2013. Sudjic, Deyan (5 November 1988). "Call that a pub?; Public house's must adapt to changing market forces". The Times.Brought To Book, The Brewers Who Made a Name for Themselves". Yorkshire Post . Retrieved 23 June 2012. Joseph, Sebastian (26 November 2012). "John Smith's ends Grand National sponsorship". Marketing Week . Retrieved 26 November 2012.

The majority of John Smith's sales are of the nitrogenated Extra Smooth product, although a cask conditioned variant is available nationally. A stronger variant called Magnet is also available in the North East of England. John Smith's Cask and Magnet are produced under licence by Cameron's in Hartlepool.a b c "Advertising in the 80s: Financial Times Survey: Yorkshire Double Act Pays Off". Financial Times. 29 October 1982.

Mutch, Alistair (June 2006). "Allied Breweries and the Development of the Area Manager in British Brewing, 1950–1984" (PDF). Enterprise & Society. 7 (2): 361. doi: 10.1093/es/khj035.One Hundred Years:: A History of John Smith's, 1847–1947. Tadcaster: John Smith's Tadcaster Brewery Company Ltd. 1948. p.38. a b Gibbs, Geoffrey (1 December 1987). "Courage deal gives extra strength to Mansfield". The Guardian. The John Smith Brewery in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2013 . Retrieved 13 September 2012. Obituary Notice". Journal of the Institute of Brewing. 17 (5): 543–544. September–October 1911. doi: 10.1002/j.2050-0416.1911.tb04711.x.