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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.
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask, third. @Trent Bridge Inn, Nottingham (England). 12/10/2024 [#7.914 Global - #993 England - #2 Maxim Brewery] Pours dark chestnut with a small and lacing tan head. Aroma: cola, syrup and spiced malts. Taste: sone liquorice and milk chocolate. Syrup palate. Next one, please!
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Nov 2024
at 08:51
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at Square Bottle, Chester. Pours a dark brown with a small foamy cream head and good lacing. There’s malts and dark fruits in the aroma. Malts to the fore in the mouth where it is sweet and creamy. Plenty of chocolate too and some vanilla plus traces of dark berry fruits lster leading to a slightly fruity finish. This is nice and quite interesting – but more of an old ale than a bitter methinks.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Nov 2024
at 22:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask, third pint. @The Roebuck Inn, Nottingham (England). 11/10/2024 [#7.865 Global - #958 England - #1 Maxim Brewery (My English brewery #298)] Pours dark golden to orange with a creamy white head. Aroma: banana, esters and toffee. Taste: plenty of ripe banana and toffee. Creamy banana palate. Next one, please!
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Nov 2024
at 11:09
6/10
On cask at Heaton Stannington FC bar - clear gold, small white head. Straw, citrus, cereal, grassy hop. Nice enough.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Oct 2024
at 22:53
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
[Cask at the Old Manor (JDW), Bracknell.] An amber pour with a loose off-white head; toffee banana aroma; drier than expected with an earthy bitterness and mashed banana taste; then a dry bready finish. Surprisingly fresh tasting.
Tried
from Cask
at
Old Manor
on 30 Oct 2024
at 13:47
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tried
on 22 Oct 2024
at 09:39
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Cask at the ledger building Canary wharf. A light hazed amber orange coloured pour with a lasting speckled head. Aroma is very sweet, brown banana, banana sweets, some brown sugars, bruised fruit. Palate is weak and grainy, little cloying,. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, light tangy, fizzy banana sweets, earthy grains, grass, bruised bananas. But rough round the edges.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Oct 2024
at 16:36
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask up the White Lady. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of banana and toffee as promised. Taste is more of the same. Sweet finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Oct 2024
at 13:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask handpull at The County Hotel JDW Ashford. Clear mid brown colour lasting beige head toffee banana aroma. Some hop in the mouth dries it out. Toffee banana flavour in mouth. Some dryness on the finish. I mean a bit one dimensional. But it's OK I suppose. Bit of a gimmick. More Toffee than banana. Like banana Toffo sweets for those who were in the 80s
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Oct 2024
at 12:13
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Amber gold with a bubbly/frothy white head. Definite slug of bananas on the nose, alongside some light malt. Smooth, tastes a little like banana bread with just a little spicy kick ahead of a dry toffee finish
Tried
from Cask
at
Shrewsbury Hotel
on 12 Oct 2024
at 13:45