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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.
4.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
500ml bottle. Pours dark orange with a large head. Aroma is buttery toffee and caramel. Taste is gassy. Some straw and caramel. No hops. Crap.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2013
at 14:18
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
50cl bottle from the Sainsburys Beer Hunt 2013 range. Amber with a thin cream head; citrus aroma; tropical fruit taste; and a lightly bitter finish. Rather unexciting, and not living up to its name.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2013
at 14:11
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
50cl bottle from Sainsbury’s Beer Hunt 2013 range. Pale amber with a billowing white head; light citrus aroma; soft in the mouth with a sharp grapefruit taste and grainy mouthfeel; and a gentle bitterness to finish. Fairly typical of the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2013
at 11:59
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Quakerhouse, Darlington. Orange amber colour, foam white head leaving some lacing and tropical fruits, citrus & biscuity malt aroma. Malt caramel taste with tropical fruit & earthy grapefruit bitterness. Smooth creamy mouthfeel, medium bodied, soft to medium carbonation, dry bitter finish. Quite drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Jul 2013
at 08:20
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Ealing. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. MOderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Jul 2013
at 13:57
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Hand-pulled half-pint in The Crown Inn, Oakengates on 29 Jun 2013. Lovely auburn colour with a full white foaming head. Perfumed nose, very floral and summery. The taste was also floral with a mild semi-sweet malt infusion, easy to drink and different to the citrus flavoured beers that seemed to surround it in the bars that day.
Tried
on 01 Jul 2013
at 02:52
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask gravity at Tenterden BF 2013. Ruby beer full in moutha little liquourice pk ruby ale some hop ok
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Jun 2013
at 05:29
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle. Pours a chestnut brown colour, frothy off-white head leaving some lacing and aroma of malt, toffee, brown sugar, vanilla. Taste is sweet & malty with dark fruits, raisins, toffee, roasted & nutty notes. Creamy mouth feel, medium to full bodied, medium carbonation, some residual sweetness, dry finish. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2013
at 11:24
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Clitheroe Beer Festival. Copper brown with a small head. Has a small berry sweet aroma but a bland taste.
Tried
on 17 May 2013
at 14:38
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask on stillage at the Marlow Donkey, Marlow. Bright amber with a fading white head; citrus aroma; soft in the mouth with a sweet citrus taste then a sharper bite; and a rather sticky finish. Rather average.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Apr 2013
at 12:49