About
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.
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Shakespeare, Sheffield. Thick off white head. Clear deep burgundy pour. Full bodied with a nice aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Gate House (JDW)
on 23 Oct 2012
at 02:22
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Cask at Shakespeares, Sheffield. Reddish brown clear pour with a bubbly broken head. An amazingly rich fruity aroma with raisin notes. Quite a sweet ale with medium bitterness and very little on the palate. Its 6% but the alcohol isnt overpowering. This is one for a winter fireside. A heart warming ale!
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Oct 2012
at 06:29
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Gravity dispense at the twelfth Twickenham Beer Festival - 18/10/12. Opaque chestnut brown with a thin tan head. Toffee dominated nose with a little honey, light treacle, touch of herbs and mint. Tastes of dark caramel malt, booze, biscuit, nutty, dark fruits and toffee fudge. Full bodied with a fruity bitter finish.
Tried
on 19 Oct 2012
at 13:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cloudy, medium-bodied and extremely fruity blonde pale ale, more so in taste than aroma.
Tried
on 12 Oct 2012
at 13:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Dark red or ruby in colour, keeping a lovely smooth head. Has a sweet taste with fruits evident that give it a slight kick in its aftertaste.
Tried
on 10 Oct 2012
at 15:54
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle at home in London with Lyoli. Pours clear, ruby-brown with a fine, off-white cream head. Nose holds toasty bread, semi-ripe fruits, cherries. Light to medium sweet flavor with toasty grains, pleasant fruits, some brown sugar, bread, very light bitterness. Light bodied with average carbonation. Crisp, light sweet finish, with toasty and lightly grainy bread, more lightly ripened fruits, some raisins, dates, brown sugar. A tasty little ditty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2012
at 14:55
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Brown colour with an off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, fruit, hop. Flavour is malt, caramel, fruit, hop. Medium body. Ordinary beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2012
at 21:44
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle, at ØlFestival 2012. It’s an almost clear one, brown in color and with a minimal sized head. Buttery caramel, some lightly chessy hops, bread and nuts on the aroma. There’s some bitterness in the flavor, else it’s pretty much the same as the aroma, the usual suspects buttery caramel, bread and nuts, and also some cheesy, light grassy hops. Medium to thin on the palate, quite dry. Bitter end with caramel. Well, it’s certainly nothing super impressive going on here, but it’s an honest English brown ale. 120512
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2012
at 11:42
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
500ml bottle - pours a nicer deeper brown than it looks in the bottle, the white head stays longer than expected. The nose is a bit tinny, some roasted caramel in there, a bit pungent. The mouthfeel is quite good, an oily slick palate, with a nutty aftertaste. There is quite a bit going on in there - fruity, malty, bit of a kick at the end. Quite a good drink in all honesty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2012
at 16:21
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
500ml bottle - reddish brown body, with thin white layer of froth on top. Aromas of caramel, a bit of hops sneak in. Taste is metallic, and a little unpleasant, nothing like the Wards of Sheffield I used to know, A poor pale imitation of something that was once a local legend round here. Very sad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2012
at 15:31