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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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

500ml bottle from Sainsbury - Didn’t mind this, a foggy yellow body, foamy white head. Nose was a muted grapefruit, and the smell you get when you open a bag of wine gums. The taste was helped along by a medium palate, with a creamy texture, leaving a bitter-sweet fruit ending.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2013 at 02:04


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Tried on 16 Oct 2013 at 20:08


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

Cask handpull at Samuel Peto Spoons Folkestone. Clear amber brown lasting beige head. At last a beer with some malt. Bit of biscuit. Compared with the golden hoppy beers I have had before this is a godsend. I like it. Simple sweet bitter with some decent biscuit flavour.

Tried from Cask on 16 Oct 2013 at 12:02


4.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

The light citrusy aroma and taste are the only pleasant elements of this one. It has a very rough, agressive carbonation and a rough unrefined bitterness with a metallic edge to the flavour.

Tried on 11 Oct 2013 at 11:16


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

bottle at home ... golden amber ... thin white head ... soft zezty metalic hop ... sot fruit nose ... dry zezty hop ... soft toffee fruits

Tried from Bottle on 09 Oct 2013 at 09:54


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

Bottle at home Sainsburys beer hunt 2013 split with Sarah. Light amber colour. Aroma is sweet caramel and some hedgerow / bramble hop Flavour follows caamel / toffee malt. Mellow low bitterness. Finish is dry. Decent enough the hops are wasted by the toffee malt.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Oct 2013 at 14:36


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Sainsburys 2013 great british Beer hunt. Clear golden colour with a thin persistent head. Aroma is light caramelsome fruity midget gem hops. Flavour is semi sweet caramel. Hops are a light touch. Light hedgerow bitterness. Palate is medium body and fnishes dry. slight chalk in the mouthfeel. Decent stuff, maybe a bit much caramel.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Oct 2013 at 12:05


5.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

500ml bottle from Sainsbury?s. Pours a clear gold with a thin white head. Some nice lacing. Aromas of butterscotch, bread, musty, light citrus fruit. Taste has a good bitterness, but is both oily and minerally. Ok. Just.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Sep 2013 at 12:23


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

Bottle from Sainsbury’s, Murrayfield [270913]
Amber, clear, frothy white head
Aroma - Dry dull citrus zest, some grassy hop, dab of straw, caramel malt
Taste - Dry bitter dull citrus hops, some grassy hop, not much fruits, some straw notes, background of caramel malts
Palate - Medium carb, fairly light body, fairly bitter palate. Finish - quite dry, bitter hop tail
Overall - Not a US pale ale, hops are mainly bitter with straw and grass, little fruits, some caramel. Better than the other Maxim in the Sainsbury’s comp...prob would be better on cask....rather average

Tried from Bottle on 26 Sep 2013 at 20:05


4.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

500ml bottle at home. Butterscotch. Taken off the yeast too soon, pasteurised to buggery, taken all the flavour out, and left the taste of brewing faults. Butterscotch. The hops are there if you look really, really hard. Somebody needs to give these guys a decent IPA. Did I mention the butterscotch? Not good.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Sep 2013 at 15:56