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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.
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.
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at ye olde Hamitlon Hall, JDW - London. Pours well clear, deep copper with a lingering and lace-leaving tan cream head. The aroma holds dark bread, toffee and ripening fruits. Medium sweet flavorbwith prominent malt character, some toasty toffee and brown sugar, raisins, berries. Medium bodied with fine carbonation; good condition. Finsih was sweet, bready, with some grapes, more berries, toffee, minimal bitterness. Quite drinkable. A nice malt-forward beer. Tasty.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 May 2015
at 15:36
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Standing Order. Pours copper amber, sweet, light blackcurrant, sweet toffee, thin.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Feb 2015
at 01:38
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Bar Fringe, Manchester. Mahogany coloured pour with a white head. Toffee apple, caramel and burnt sugar aroma. Orchard fruit, toffee apple and caramel flavour. Sweet malt finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Feb 2015
at 16:41
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Half pint, hand-pulled cask ale at Magnet. Fawn-colored head leaving dotted spots behind. Coal black body. Roasted malty aromas. Liquorice, coffee, and oatmeal flavours. Fine bodied considering the low abv. Pretty nice stout (Stockport 03.02.2015).
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Feb 2015
at 13:35
6/10
Tried
on 06 Feb 2015
at 19:59
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 7
From file last updated 2010. Bottle. Pours light amber with a white head. Slightly floral aroma. Flavor is light malt and a little hop.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2015
at 16:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the York Tap, York, UK. Pours hazy golden with white head. Light hoppy aroma. Fruity and light hoppy, malty base. Bitterish finish.
Tried
from Cask
at
York Tap
on 02 Jan 2015
at 17:02
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On cask at the Library in Durham. Appearance - dark brown with some red chinks. Nice. Nose - lightly cakey. Sweet malt and fruit. Taste - sweet malt and prunes. Biscuit or cakey finish. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a balanced long dry finish. Overall - lovely ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Dec 2014
at 07:25
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On cask at the Library in Durham. Appearance - golden with a very slight hop haze and a nice head. Nose - lemon and malt. Taste - more lemon barley water. Some herbs on the finish. Palate - light to medium bodied with a creamy texture and a long dry finish. Overall - decent example of the style.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Dec 2014
at 07:04
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Bridge House JDW, Belfast [131114]
Amber, clear, dense white head, slight lacing
Aroma of dull citrus hops, soft sweet
Taste of soft fruits, very soft tropical fruits, slight peach, soft bitter hop, light sweet, dull hops
Palate - Light to medium body. Finish a bit dry.
Overall - Another ordinary Spoons beer.
Amber, clear, dense white head, slight lacing
Aroma of dull citrus hops, soft sweet
Taste of soft fruits, very soft tropical fruits, slight peach, soft bitter hop, light sweet, dull hops
Palate - Light to medium body. Finish a bit dry.
Overall - Another ordinary Spoons beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Nov 2014
at 14:47