Durham Brewery

Microbrewery in Bowburn, Durham, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: Durham Brewery

Established in 1994

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Unit 6a, Bowburn North Industrial Estate, Bowburn, DH6 5PF, England
Description
The brewery was set up by former music teachers Steve and Christine Gibbs in 1994. The Durham Brewery produces a wide range of cask and bottle-conditioned ales. The brewery has a ten barrel plant but with a 20 barrel mash tun for the stronger ales, four 10-barrel fermenters and various conditioning tanks for bottled beer with a warm room for bottle conditioning. All production is onsite, including bottling, and it is company policy that there be no filtration and no pasteurisation. The brewery motto is “Perfected”. Despite all our years, this family owned brewery is still small, preferring to concentrate on perfecting beers rather than manufacturing volume.

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6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at Three Judges, Glasgow. Pale golden. Citric and creamy, light bodied and soft. Pleassant citrusy hops rests on a creamy bed of malt. Low bitterness. Well balanced and really drinkable.

Tried from Cask on 30 Aug 2007 at 02:47


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottled@GBBF2007- Dark ruby red colour, small head. Aroma is alcohol, oxidation, acideic hops along with some dark fruits, vanilla and slight roast. Flavour is pretty much the same. Really nice palate.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Aug 2007 at 00:29


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask handpull at Three Judges, Glasgow. Pale gold, thin white head. Fine, normal pale gold beer, decent citrus. Totally acceptable golden citrus beer. Good grapefruit. NIce crisp finish.

Tried from Cask on 24 Aug 2007 at 04:00


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask (handpump) @ Wellington, B2, Birmingham. Clear light yellow color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, citrus, light yeasty. Flavor is light to moderate sweet and moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat.

Tried from Cask on 20 Aug 2007 at 01:21


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Cask gravity at GBBF 2007. Very dark brown, bubbly beige head. Choccy porter aroma, little thin in mouth. A little watery, where are they malts? OK hop on finish. Just too watery.

Tried from Cask on 16 Aug 2007 at 11:21


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

(Bottle, Monk’s Café, Stockholm) Amber colour, hazy, with huge, but brief, off-white head. Fruity nose with citrus (orange, mandarin) and heavy notes of earthy hops, slightly vinous. Fruity taste, slightly vinous, with notes of orange marmalade, mandarin and earthy hops in the finish. Sweetish, but perfectly balanced. Very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 15 May 2007 at 15:49


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at Fanny’s Ale and Cider House, Shipley/Saltaire 04-05-07. Very, very pale golden colour, with a huge Yorkshire head that was topped up straight away. Decent hoppy bitter beer that I tried alongside the Outlaw Mayflower (Roosters brewery) both good breweries. This one just nicked it for me it was in very good nick and had good citrus flavours and nice bitterness, not as good as some of theirs but still a very good effort.

Tried from Cask on 05 May 2007 at 15:44


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled. An amber beer with a thin orange head. The aroma is sweet with a strong floral hop note, with a light note of alcohol in the background. The flavor is sweet malty combined with a dusty hop note and spicy notes of especially coriander, leading to a dry spicy end. The alcohol gives it a nice powerful body.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Apr 2007 at 18:47


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of Ungstrup. Hazy golden with an off-white head. Aroma of almonds and marzipan - and alcohol. Quite full-bodied with a shipload of sweetish malt, fruit and marzipan. Potent, warming, alcoholic finish. 250407

Tried from Bottle on 25 Apr 2007 at 15:00


5.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Deep red/black colour, with a strong roast malt nose, and bitter(burnt) malt coffeeish flavour.

Tried on 06 Mar 2007 at 06:16