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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6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask handpull at Newcastle Beer and Cider Festival 2025. Gluten reduced. Golden colour, bubbly white foam head and aroma of malt, caramel, fruity hop. Taste is malty, grainy, with fruity, citric hop bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry bitter finish. Quite drinkable

Tried from Cask on 10 Apr 2025 at 12:44


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

Cask. The awful brown hole known as the Fat Cat. Clear brown (obviously). Tight off white head. Pretty standard bitter with no particular stand out characteristics. Drinks fine but extremely forgettable.

Tried from Cask at Fat Cat (Kelham Island) on 02 Apr 2025 at 16:23


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Panda from Danlo, thanks Ed! Pours deepest brown with beige foam. Aroma: toasty malts, coffee beans, earth. Taste: light to moderate sweet & moderate bitter, prominent coffee. Medium body with light carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Mar 2025 at 22:05


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

cask at the blue blazer ...hazy amber ... small white head ...soft tropical fruit hop nose ..soft sweet tropical fruit ..juicy light fruits

Tried on 22 Mar 2025 at 17:09


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

Deadication brew to Brian Clough, England footballer and more famously a manager who played for Sunderland, where I'm having this beer, was born on this day. Easy pale ale, slightly dry in my palate but all the brews I've had today seem that way so maybe it's me! Good tropical fruit nose, decent but lesser stated, more hoppy taste.

Tried from Cask at Canny Lad (formerly Fitzgeralds) on 21 Mar 2025 at 14:41


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6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at ORB, Darlington. Gluten Reduced. Amber colour, white foam head leaving lacing and aroma of malt, dried fruit, earth. Taste is malty, grain, fruity, earthy with citric bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying bitter finish. Quite drinkable

Tried from Cask at ORB on 08 Mar 2025 at 16:41


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

Cask from ORB, Darlington. Gluten Reduced. Golden colour, bubbly white head and aroma of fruit, citrus, hops. Taste is malt, grain, biscuit, with tangy, citric bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry tangy bitter finish. Quite drinkable.

Tried at ORB on 27 Feb 2025 at 22:12


6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Old rating - 500ml bottle, pours amber with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of flora, peach, pine & malt. Moderate body. Light bitter finish

Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2025 at 22:13


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7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

500ml bottle from Durham Brewery. Dark amber brown colour, beige foam head and aroma of chocolate malt, coffee bean, roasty, earth. Taste is sweet, roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, dried fruit, tobacco hint, with spicy earthy ashy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying bitter with roast malt & coffee at the finish. Nicely drinkable.

Tried from Bottle at Durham Brewery on 16 Feb 2025 at 17:55


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

På Liverpool & Districts Beer CAMRA Beer Festival feb 2025. Delt med Rune.

Tried from Cask on 14 Feb 2025 at 12:32