As well as the everyday ales and beers you will find here, T.J. Doyles are proud to sell a variety of both Award Winning Real Ales and Local Ales brewed at the Bull Lane Brewery here in Sunderland, such as Nowtamatta XB/BB, SoL, Sauce of the Niall, and Ryhope Tug. We also sell on your old favourites, Samson & Double Maxim, brewed locally at the Maxium Brewery, Houghton-le-Spring and are pleased to be the first pub in Sunderland to now sell "Life's a Beach." - a lovely 4.1 tasting ale. Where did the name come from you ask? ... "Cask" your mind back to October 17th 2009, when Sunderland beat Liverpool 1-0, with the aid of a Beachball -- thats when "Life's a beach" came about... The Bull Lane Brewing Company is a small, family run business founded in 2005 by John & Joanne Taylor in the basement of the Clarendon public house in Sunderland which dates back to the year 1753. The brewery is going from strength to strength and now supplies ales and stouts to a variety of establishments.
Dating back to 1901, Double Maxim is being brewed on Wearside in its draught form for the first time in almost a decade. It is available on tap in about 30 pubs across Sunderland, including T.J. Doyles, The King's Arms and The Dun Cow. Intially, brewed, our favourite local ale was known as just "Maxium Ale" and was given a lower strength ABV. In 1938, it was renamed to "Double Maxium", and the strengthi increased. When Vaux Breweries closed down in 1999 it was assumed the great Sunderland ale would disappear with it. But the Maxim Brewery was set up a year later to keep the name alive. "We looked to Sunderland City Council to help us find a home in the city and they found us a fantastic site at Rainton Bridge." Since then, bottled Double Maxim has been brewed in Sunderland and bottled in Stockport. Samson has already made a comeback with another old favourite from the Vaux years, Ward's, also set to make a return. Double Maxim is brewed using Maris Otter and Crystal Malts and English Golding aroma Hops. |