Humphrey's world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain's strangest pub chain
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Bienko recalled his rheumy eyes. Smith would be conducting their job interview personally, he told them. The meeting was strange. It was like he was warning us, Bienko said. He was asking: Are you sure it's right for you?
The next morning, Smith, a small man in his late 70s, dressed in a dark business suit, showed up at the couple's caravan in the East Yorkshire countryside.
Inside, the couple discovered the scale of the job ahead of them. It was an absolute shambles. Two years' worth of dust, Bienko said. The closed New Inn at Stamford Bridge.
Founded in 1758, Samuel Smith Old Brewery is one of the largest family-owned brewery and pub operations in the UK.
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