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

Bottle 500ml. clear glass bottle.Clear medium to dark amber color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, fruity, sugar, light roasted. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100428]

Tried from Bottle on 01 May 2010 at 03:15


4.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottle 500ml. clear glass bottle.Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, toffee, sugar. Flavor is heavy sweet and light light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100428]

Tried from Bottle on 01 May 2010 at 03:12


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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Appearance: Redish brown. Some off-white head. Aroma: Some fruit and malt. Taste: Some malt, nutty. Smooth. Caramel? Info: 500ml bottle, 7/10-2009, 207/300

Tried from Bottle on 07 Oct 2009 at 11:58


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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Cask (handpump) @ Fat Cat, Sheffield, England. @ [ RBESG 09 ]... brown ... thin off white head ... light malt ... light spice nose ... spicy not really ginger toffee malt.

Tried from Cask on 31 Jul 2009 at 01:23


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask (handpump) @ Fat Cat, Sheffield, England. @ [ RBESG 09 ]Clear medium to dark amber color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, spicy, chistmas spices, ginger, cinnamomn. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, and spicy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090717]

Tried from Cask on 28 Jul 2009 at 16:28


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Cask @ Kelham Island Tavern, Sheffield. Dark brown color. Ginger and cinnamin in the aroma. Sweet flavor with ’ontbijtkoek’. Too sweet and spicy for my likings.

Tried from Cask on 28 Jul 2009 at 07:20


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

Appearance: Amber brown, nice amount of head. Aroma: Malt and hops. Taste: Quite malty and bitter. Bitter aftertaste Info: 500ml bottle, 29/3-2007

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jul 2008 at 04:41


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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home ... Deep copper brown ... That unpleasnet metallic hop nose ... Fruity malty hop ... touch lager ... just not very nice ... drinkable but thats all i’ll say... This one grew on me as it was easy drinking and went down smooth

Tried from Bottle on 16 Jun 2008 at 11:59


4.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Clear red amber with tiny off white head. Aroma has malty and fruity notes. Sweet fruity flavor with caramel and roasted malt notes. Ends light bitter.

Tried on 01 Jun 2008 at 11:09


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

50 cL clear bottle. Pours clear and amber with a slowly collapsing off-white head. Light fruity and malt dense aroma. Flavour is medium sweet malt with a light fruit touch and followed by a mild bitterness. Mildly roasted caramel malt and fruity hops into the finish. Gradually building bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2008 at 03:11