About
Founded in 2015, we are a close-knit family business that selfishly focuses on brewing the styles of beer that we wish to drink. Fortunately for everyone else, our tastes are extremely diverse…

In 2024 the Fellowship Of Beer brewery was founded, using separate kit, and focussing on rare, unusual styles as well as barrel aged beers generally in a small batch production.

See separate brewery ... https://brewver.com/breweries/63999/The-Fellowship-Of-Beer

We’d hate to be described as a one-trick pony, or for someone to say our beers all taste the same with subtle nuance, and to this end we are constantly experimenting with bold new flavours, natural ingredients, diverse techniques, with nods to cutting edge research and seemingly lost historic recipes.

From lagers to wild sours, and Imperial Stouts to highly-hopped IPAs, spontaneous and salted fruited beers to barrel aged Old Ales, and everything in between; our extremely busy industrial tap room is sure to cater for taste buds of all perversions, and you can be sure of a warm Northern welcome too.

Yearly since inception we have grown in size, output, and fanbase. 2019 was no exception, with a massive relocation to a new 2.4HL brewery, bigger tap room, street food, and flexible function areas in the heart of Newton Aycliffe’s industrial estate, with more space for us to make a mess whilst brewing…
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TDA (7102) reviewed
Afternoon Tea from Steam Machine Brewing Co.
10 years ago
6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
At a tasting many thanks Hippoman, very little head, cloudy to murky and quite deep orange color, aroma oftea leaves, herbs and some spiciness, herbal shrubby black tea flavor with a hint of graininess, strong but mellow shrubby bitterness. original and quite good.
Tried on 18 May 2016 at 08:36
danlo (13924) reviewed
Lapsang Souchong Smoked Porter from Steam Machine Brewing Co.
10 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
330ml bottle from the Cheese & Wine shop, Darlington. Pours a black-brown colour, with a thin beige foam head and aroma of ash, smoked meat, roast malt. Taste is smokey, burnt wood, meaty, roasted malt, sweet, with lapsand tea notes, liqorice and earthy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, tangy roast burnt bitter finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Mar 2016 at 15:05
danlo (13924) reviewed
Treacle Toffee Stout from Steam Machine Brewing Co.
10 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
330ml bottle from Head of Steam Railway Museum Shop, Darlington. Pours black in colour with a beige foam head leaving lacing. Aroma of roast malt, molasses, milky chocolate, coffee, fruity. Taste is roasted, malt, caramel, sweet, molasses, toffee, milk chocolate, dark fruits, some coffee & earthy notes. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry roasty finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Mar 2016 at 16:27
danlo (13924) reviewed
New Age Brown from Steam Machine Brewing Co.
10 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
330ml bottle from the Cheese & Wine shop, Darlington. Chestnut brown colour, tan foam head leaving lacing and aroma of brown sugar, chocolate, roasted note, raisins. Taste is roast malt, coffee & chocolate, berry fruits, raisins, hints of zesty citrus, and some bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry roast bitter finish. Quite drinkable.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jan 2016 at 12:57
danlo (13924) reviewed
Red IPA from Steam Machine Brewing Co.
10 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
330ml bottle from the Cheese & Wine shop, Darlington. Dark brown colour with a reddish tinge, beige foam head leaving lacing and aroma of citrus & pine hoppy. Taste is malt, light roast, caramel, sweetish with some citrus & pine and earthy bitterness. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry earthy bitter finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Jan 2016 at 13:27
Garrold (11729) reviewed
Double IPA from Steam Machine Brewing Co.
11 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle. Fuggle & Golding, Ilkley. Hazy, dark gold. Film of white head. Fusty, jammy, grapefruit marmalade hop. Tinned fruit syrup. A bit woody. A bit resinous. Taste is sweet, turning full on bitter. Feels a big beer, although maybe not to the tune of 9.6%. Smooth and chewy. Finishes long, resinous, woody bitter. Little in the way of balance. It’s a bruiser of an IPA. Pretty likeable.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Oct 2015 at 16:21
danlo (13924) reviewed
San Franciscan Steam from Steam Machine Brewing Co.
11 years ago
6.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
330ml bottle from the Cheese & Wine shop, Darlington. Golden amber colour, white foam head and grainy earthy aroma. Taste is grainy, fruity, yeasty, with grassy earthy notes and lingering metalllic bitterness. Medium bodied, soft to medium carbonation, dry grainy earthy metallic bitter finish. Quite OK.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Jul 2015 at 13:43
danlo (13924) reviewed
IPA from Steam Machine Brewing Co.
11 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
330ml bottle from Cheese & Wine shop, Darlington. Hazy orange amber colour with a creamy white foam head. Aroma of tropical fruits, citrus, hoppy. Taste is malt caramel & some biscuit, with fruity citrus, grapefruit and woody bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry bitter finish. Nicely drinkable IPA.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Jul 2015 at 12:35
WingmanWillis (39655) ticked
Double IPA from Steam Machine Brewing Co.
11 years ago
4/10
Tried on 24 Jul 2015 at 18:21
WingmanWillis (39655) ticked
Afternoon Tea from Steam Machine Brewing Co.
11 years ago
6/10
Tried on 24 Jul 2015 at 17:55