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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6/10 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

6.4/10 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

4.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
(Bottle 50 cl) Pours a clear, dark amber with a small, off-white head. Lightly nutty nose.. Medium-bodied, sweetish malty with basically no bitterness. Comes through pretty much like a macro Brown Ale. A bit sad. 070606
Tried from Bottle on 07 Jun 2006 at 13:16

3.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 2 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 2.5
Bottle 500ml Amersham Tesco 02-05-06. A dark malty ale that couldn’t shake off the alcohol taint, it was present in both the aroma and taste and really spoilt this beer, I couldn’t even finish it as didn’t agree with me at all (without going into further detail) Very dissapointed with this. Maybe I had a bad one, I don’t know but I will not be rushing to get another one in a hurry.
Tried from Bottle on 03 May 2006 at 02:04

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 5
500ml bottle from Tesco. Ruby red colour with thin beige head. Malty nose with red and dark fruits. Some balancing hop. Dead malt feel in mouth though. Finish has candy sugar, some fruit sweetness and touch of dryness. Nose is fine, but the rest was not that good
Tried from Bottle on 18 Nov 2005 at 07:16

4.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
50cl bottle from Morrisons. Dark orange with thin beige head. Bit of orange peel and bit of caramel, some hop, bit farty really. Dull in mouth and some boiled sweet.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Oct 2005 at 16:09

6.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
One of the best brown ales I have tasted. Nice and well rounded. Definately not the last one to be drunk me.
Tried on 07 Oct 2005 at 06:49

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Bottle Sainsburys. Reddish brown colour, thin lasting beige head, sweetish toffee malt but some hop. A bit heavy in mouth, bit over carbonated, fairly undemanding finish
Tried from Bottle on 05 Sep 2005 at 15:44

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Bottle
Red chestnut, foamy off-white head. English hops, nutty malt. Fruit, nut and roasted flavors, hop bitterness. Ok Body.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Sep 2005 at 14:11

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle. Reddish brown. some malt aroma but nice in the mouth some earthy hop. Nice malts and then goodish hop finish good balance. Well made could do with a touch more taste.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Aug 2005 at 15:26