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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5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

500ml bottle from Tesco. Gold with a thin white head; nutty aroma; full sweet malty caramel flavour; slightly salty and dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Apr 2008 at 13:37


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask (handpump) @ Triple Crown, Richmond, London, UK. Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity, light hoppy, orange, light yeasty, toffee. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. (010108)

Tried from Cask on 08 Jan 2008 at 13:25


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

Bottle from ASDA. Very sweet malt and red fruit aroma. Flavour had more malt and a nutty edge, with a decent bitter finish. Ok.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2007 at 07:16


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Amber with an off white creamy head. Some roasted caramel, fruits & sugar. Smooth & soft palate - that is also light thin. It has a bitter dry end - with a grainy taste. Overall slight sweet aroma & taste.

Tried on 25 Nov 2007 at 11:30


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle. Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Brown colour. Week but delicate light malty and hoppy aroma. Nice powerfull malty bitter flavor, not so caramellic. Moderate bítter average finish. Oily palate.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2007 at 02:32


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

500ml bottle from Sainsburys. Deep hop aroma as soon as tghe bottle is opened; pours a copper/gold colour with a large off-wjhite head; aroma is now of stewed malt; light and refreshing in themouth with malt sweetness, and then a light bitter finish with some caramel. Full bodied, but not overpowering - a well balanced bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jun 2007 at 17:20


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

500ml bottle from Tesco. A chestnut colour with a thick, loose, cream head; aroma of raisins and fermenting grape; rich and smooth in the mouth, starting saccharin sweet, but developing a dry roast coffee finish.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2007 at 16:49


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle: Clear, amber coloured, small, lacing off-white foam; sweet-malty, roast-malty nose, almost a bit vinous; moderate bitter-seet flavour, medium bodied; a bit port-vinous, a bit roast-malty finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste. O.K, not overwhelming.......

Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2007 at 02:03


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Dark brown in colour, with a biscuity malt nose, Strong malt with light roast and clinging sweetness

Tried on 06 Mar 2007 at 06:04


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle: Amber coloured, huge off-white foam; malty-fruity nose, a bit caramelly, too; sweetish (malty) flavour, light to medium bodied, velvet MF; light bitter-malty finish with a distinctive fruitiness. Pleasant brown ale...............

Tried from Bottle on 31 Aug 2006 at 00:42