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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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from the brewery online shop. Pours clear golden with a persistent white head. Aromas of mixed spice, mixed dried peel, light warming booze. Taste is more of the same. Warming sweet finish. The oak is quite subtle, but the brandy comes through down the glass.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Nov 2022 at 21:12


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

Cask at Great British Beer Festival 2014, London. Pours pale golden with a white cap. Aroma: malt, caramel, bread, citrus. Taste: light sweet & bitter, fruity, earthy, hay, raisins, light floral. Light to medium body with soft carbonation. OK.

Tried from Cask at Olympia - Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) on 31 Oct 2022 at 21:55


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle, bb 7/23. Just cloudy gold with a white head that collapses to a cm. Yeasty aroma of spiced dough, apricot, citrus peel, hints of tropical fruit. A bit earthy upon a sip. Yeasty, fruity, spicy. Well off dry with moderate bitterness, although it does creep up a bit. Rather muddled.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Oct 2022 at 12:15


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

Slighty hazy pale amber with a small, frothy white head and a floral hop aroma. Very light biscuit malt, floral hops with a touch of pine and a semi-sweet dry finish

Tried on 27 Aug 2022 at 09:48


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at Smithfield, Derby. Pours a very dark reddish-brown with minimal cream head. Lactose and roasted malts in the aroma. And pretty much the same in the mouth, where they are joined by vanilla, liquorice and traces of figs and dates. Finish is bitter with some fruitiness. This is a pretty d*mn good milk stout.

Tried from Cask on 27 Aug 2022 at 09:30


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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the Peterborough beer festival 2022 day 3. Light golden colour with a shire head. Aroma and taste are light fruity and dry. Medium body.

Tried from Cask on 26 Aug 2022 at 10:49


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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the Peterborough beer festival 2022 day 3. Off black colour with a tan head. Aroma and taste are roasted malty bitter. Medium body.

Tried from Cask on 26 Aug 2022 at 10:22


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Northumbrian Gifts. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of spice, white pepper, grassy hops. Taste is light yeast esters, spice, faint pale malt. Dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Aug 2022 at 16:46


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Northumbrian Gifts. Light gusher. Pours clear enough straw gold with a thin white head. Aromas of light soap and spice. Taste is doughy, more soap and spice. Creamy finish. A bit odd.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Aug 2022 at 16:33


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

500ml bottle - Pours black with a good sized mostly lasting foamy tan head. The aroma is roasted malts, dark fruit and brown sugar with some chocolate and liquorice notes. A sweet roasted taste, dark roasted malts, dark fruit and burnt sugar flavours with chocolate and liquorice notes. The alcohol is there in a warming roasted finish.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Aug 2022 at 19:37