Maxim Brewery

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

Established in 2007

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1 Gadwall Road, Rainton Bridge, Houghton-le-Spring, DH4 5NL, England
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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5.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Fra cask på Richard Hopkins Newton Abbot 28 Apr 17. Ultramørk amber. Lavt skum med litt farge. Litt lacing. Karamellaroma. Smaken smørmalt. Lite annet. Lett tørr ettersmak.
Tried from Cask on 01 Jun 2017 at 04:03

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Half pint, cask at Richard Hopkins (JDW). Patchy beige head leaving crocheted lacing down the glass. Unclear copper coloured body. Toffee and dark fruits on the nose. Mid-sweet taste profile of toffee, dark dough and a backdrop of dried fruits carefully added by roasted endnotes. Medium bodied. Nice (Newton Abbot 28.04.2017)
Tried from Cask on 19 May 2017 at 02:50

5.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Cask @ Stick Or Twist, Leeds. Blonde with a thick creamy head. Hopped ale with an underlying sweetness. Fairly crisp and clean drinking although perhaps a tad thin.
Tried from Cask on 01 May 2017 at 07:48

6/10
Tried on 26 Feb 2017 at 10:35

6/10
Tried on 25 Feb 2017 at 10:50

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ Railway Tavern, 28-29 The Quadrant, Richmond, Greater London, England, TW9 1DN. [ As Maxim Lambton’s ].Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity, apple. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, pale malt, tart apple notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20150809] 5-3-6-3-11
Tried from Cask on 04 Jan 2017 at 05:40

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned, on gravity, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol October 2016. Deep gold in colour, with a slight, off-white, head. Lemon fruit and grassy hops, before some sweet, biscuity, malts and a moderately dry finish. Fine.
Tried from Cask on 01 Dec 2016 at 05:21

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Cask up the white lady. Pours clear yellow gold with a thick white head. Aromas of light lemon, grassy hops. Taste is lemon and custard, faintly buttery. Clean finish, decent enough.
Tried from Cask on 30 Oct 2016 at 11:40

4.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
Bottle, gift from Dad- cheers! Brown with a thin white head. Brown sugar and nutty malt flavours are rather destroyed by a heavy dose of cardboard. Poor.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Oct 2016 at 17:15

5/10
Tried on 28 Oct 2016 at 15:39