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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.
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
cask at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen. A hazy amber beer with a yellowish head. The aroma has notes of flowery hops and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of butterscotch, caramel, and malt, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Feb 2012
at 07:56
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
cask at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen. a dark golden beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of fruits and a bit of toffee. the flavor is sweet with notes of fruits, tobacco, malt, and toffee, leading to a dry finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Feb 2012
at 07:46
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From cask at Charlies. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is grassy, light straw and mild citrusy. Smooth grassy hoppy, mild citrusy and bitter. Grassy and slight herbal/straw like finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Feb 2012
at 06:14
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Some hints of fruit, but no real scotch or malt whiskey taste to it whatsoever.
Tried
on 06 Jan 2012
at 14:59
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5
5th October 2011
Crosse Keys Spoons. Clear dark brown beer. Residual pale tan head. Mild toffee malts, tasting fresh with a little lacto, but dry. Nutty as well. Trace of marmalade hops. Very dry finish. Okay.
Crosse Keys Spoons. Clear dark brown beer. Residual pale tan head. Mild toffee malts, tasting fresh with a little lacto, but dry. Nutty as well. Trace of marmalade hops. Very dry finish. Okay.
Tried
on 29 Dec 2011
at 04:38
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown with a lasting off-white head. Aroma of toffee and biscuit with a bit of figs and dates. Sweet toffee malty flavour with fruity notes and a mild roasted finish.
Tried
on 05 Dec 2011
at 07:50
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol October 2011. Dark brown with a slight, off-white head. Sweet, berry fruit and milk chocolate aroma. Flavour had caramel, more fruit and chocolate and a dry, slightly roast finish. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Dec 2011
at 00:36
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask handpull at Devonshire Cat Sheffield. light brown colour lasting beige head. Its a bitter. Decent bitter. Some biscuit. Its an ok bitter. Ok condition ok malt ok hop. Hop is quite soft on finish. Fine drinkable. Downed in no time as so inoffensive
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Nov 2011
at 11:14
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ Market Port, Borough SE1. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruiity malty caramel flavor with weak hints of chocolate. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Nov 2011
at 07:01
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ The Muckle Cross, Elgin
Very dark ruby, clear, thin frothy white head.
Aroma of caramel malts, some roasted malts, molasses, fruity notes, no hops.
Taste of dark caramel malts, some chocolate, some roasted malt, hint of coffee, fruity, quite sweet, porter qualities - can’t taste the hops here, bit watery.
Palate - Quite sweet, smooth, abrupt light sweet malty finish with a slight lingering hint of chocolate, soft carb, thinnish body.
Overall - Easy drinking light porter (or slightly strong mild), but taste dulls after a while.
Very dark ruby, clear, thin frothy white head.
Aroma of caramel malts, some roasted malts, molasses, fruity notes, no hops.
Taste of dark caramel malts, some chocolate, some roasted malt, hint of coffee, fruity, quite sweet, porter qualities - can’t taste the hops here, bit watery.
Palate - Quite sweet, smooth, abrupt light sweet malty finish with a slight lingering hint of chocolate, soft carb, thinnish body.
Overall - Easy drinking light porter (or slightly strong mild), but taste dulls after a while.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Nov 2011
at 12:36