Maxim Brewery

Microbrewery in Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2007

Contact
1 Gadwall Road, Rainton Bridge, Houghton-le-Spring, DH4 5NL, England
+44 (0)191 584 8844
info@maximbrewery.co.uk
Description
Maxim Brewery began full production in Houghton le Spring in 2007.

To brew the best beers possible requires the best brewery equipment available. Our 20 barrel brewery equipment was previously at the Canongate Brewery on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh’s historic Old Town. This was Scottish & Newcastle’s pilot brew house and as you would expect, was built to a very high specification. Indeed, it remains probably the best equipment of its size anywhere in the UK today. Our flexible Brewery with its special Lautering system allows us to brew between 3,000 and 17,000 pints per day and importantly ensures that we can maintain the highest quality and guarantee a regular supply of cask, keg and bottled beers to the drinkers of the North East and beyond.
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Downender
Downender (11272) reviewed
Azacca Pale Ale from Maxim Brewery
8 years ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned, on gravity, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol 11/10/2017. Deep gold in colour, with a slight, off-white, head. Some grassy hops, citrus fruits, digestive malts, hint of spice and moderately dry finish. Good.
Tried from Cask on 24 Oct 2017 at 11:32
Harrisoni
Harrisoni (26517) reviewed
Azacca Pale Ale from Maxim Brewery
8 years ago
6.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Cask handpull at Knights Templar JDW London. Hazy pale gold colour lasting white head. Citrusy bitter interesting beer. Good hops. Good bitter finish. Some yeast on aroma. All round a good golden ale.
Tried from Cask on 21 Oct 2017 at 07:47
Stuu
Stuu (35215) ticked
Azacca from Maxim Brewery
8 years ago
6/10
Tried on 20 Oct 2017 at 10:26
McCash
McCash (16315) reviewed
Azacca Pale Ale from Maxim Brewery
8 years ago
6.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
On cask at the Booking Office. Appearance - golden and bright. Neat lacy head. Nose - malt bag and lemon. Taste - more lemon and slightly astringent malt. Palate - light bodied and a bit gnarly through the middle and finish Overall - ok.
Tried from Cask on 20 Oct 2017 at 05:29
DavrosIX
DavrosIX (1399) reviewed
Azacca Pale Ale from Maxim Brewery
8 years ago
6.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 4.5
Half at the Crosse Keys. A reasonable golden ale with some bitter hops and balancing malt. There was some wheat flavour, but luckily it was muted.
Tried on 19 Oct 2017 at 03:08
Stuu
Stuu (35215) reviewed
Azacca Pale Ale from Maxim Brewery
8 years ago
6.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at the booking office. Pours clear orange, nose is floral, cheesy, citrus, taste is sweet, sticky toffee, orange.
Tried from Cask on 18 Oct 2017 at 14:03
allmyvinyl
allmyvinyl (21502) reviewed
Azacca Pale Ale from Maxim Brewery
8 years ago
6.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Cask at the Booking Office. Pours clear pale gold with a thin white head. Light grassy hops and citrus nose. Taste is light bitter, more grassy than the advertised tropical fruits. Bitter finish.
Tried from Cask on 16 Oct 2017 at 06:39
MusingAnorak
MusingAnorak (11819) ticked
Azacca from Maxim Brewery
8 years ago
5/10
Tried from Cask on 14 Oct 2017 at 20:06
Grumbo
Grumbo (25663) reviewed
Ward's Best Bitter (Bottle) from Maxim Brewery
8 years ago
5.4/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Oct 2017 at 12:44
Anders37
Anders37 (30295) reviewed
Swedish Blonde (Cask) from Maxim Brewery
9 years ago
6.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask @ GBBF 2016. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy aroma. Fruity malty citrus hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy finish.
Tried from Cask on 27 Jun 2017 at 12:10