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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6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Cask @ Sir Titus Salt, Bradford. Golden with a thin frothy head. Has a healthy hoppy fruitiness - crisp with plenty of taste, a decent nose and a medium bitterness.
Tried from Cask on 24 Oct 2014 at 02:34

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Cask at the Crosse Keys (JDW), Leadenhall. Amber with a ring of white head; tropical fruit aroma; rather thin with a tropical fruit taste; and a dry finish with lasting fruit. Pleasant and moreish.
Tried from Cask on 22 Oct 2014 at 14:40

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask handpull Hamilton Hall Spoons. Clear gold lasting white head. Light simcoe hop on a yeasty golden ale. Fine but just not very interesting. Some drying grapefruit hop on the finish. Ok.
Tried from Cask on 22 Oct 2014 at 08:38

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Pint at the royal hop pole Twekesbury. Golden colour thin white head. Citrus and malt aroma. Taste has citrus too, but with a slight marmalade bitterness.
Tried on 20 Oct 2014 at 12:24

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Tried on 17 Oct 2014 at 21:22

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Cask at JDW Bishop Vesey; hazy light amber pour with a creamy off white head, light floral aroma, taste is malty with some hazelnut, light citrus, didn’t live up to the pump clip
Tried from Cask on 15 Oct 2014 at 12:00

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Notes found recently from a 2010 Wetherspoon Beer Festival. Slightly weak body but still full of flavour.
Tried on 26 Jul 2014 at 16:11

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Bottle from Home Bargains. Clear bottle and already skunky after removing the top. Golden with a thin head and a high dry bitterness.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jul 2014 at 14:35

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Cask at the "Summer of Love" Festival at the Rose & Crown, Sandhurst. Deep copper with a ring of cream head; malty aroma; roasted malt taste with a trace of coffee; and a dry finish with lingering bitterness.
Tried from Cask on 27 Jun 2014 at 09:39

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Clear 500ml bottle obtained from a local B&M store: BBD 28 Jan 15, drank in my back garden on 1 June 14. I remember drinking Ward’s beers in Doncaster and Louth many, many moons ago and was really pleased to see their name again after such a long absence. This beer however isn’t like the old beers that I can recall. Anyway it comes a pleasing amber colour with a head that stayed around. The nose and taste are toffee flavoured, the whole beer being fairly sweet and malt led. My sweet tooth took to it straight away and I would have happily had another bottle or two if there were more about. I shall certainly be buying some more on my next visit to B&M’s.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Jun 2014 at 07:03