Sawmill Brewing Company (NZ)

Microbrewery in Matakana, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Associated Venue: Sawmill Smoko Room

Established in 2004

Contact
1004 Leigh Road, Matakana, New Zealand
Description
We are a New Zealand owned brewery run by a small and creative team. We brew clean, flavoursome and balanced beer with a Sawmill edge - the willingness to think for ourselves.

The Brewery was established in 2004 on the site of what was once a local timber mill established in the 1860’s. In February 2016 we moved from the original site in Leigh, and we now work from premises just out of Matakana at 1004 Leigh Road.

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7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
On tap at Sawmill’s Smoko Room. Pours black. Chocolate, grapefruit, orange, pine, little smoke. Very good.
Tried from Draft on 15 Apr 2017 at 06:00

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
On tap at Sawmill’s Smoko Room. Pours orange brown. Caramel, grapefruit, peach. Bitter and sweet. Full body. Very nice.
Tried from Draft on 15 Apr 2017 at 05:58

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
On tap at Sawmill’s Smoko Room. Pours orange brown. Caramel, orange, bitter grapefruit, little pepperiness. Nice.
Tried from Draft on 15 Apr 2017 at 05:55

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
On tap at Sawmill’s Smoko Room. Pours pale and cloudy. Bread, grapefruit, lemon, quite bitter. Not really any watermelon. Bit of a disappointment.
Tried from Draft on 15 Apr 2017 at 05:49

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 6
On tap at Uptown. Pours peach colour and hazy. Lots of peach, some citric acid, lots of floral stuff. Salt comes across more as a sweaty finish than anything else. Close to very nice.
Tried from Draft on 09 Apr 2017 at 16:05

7.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
On tap at Brewers Cooperative. Pours cloudy orange, though not quite as offensively hazy as some east coast IPAs. Tropical fruit dominates over a biscuit malt backbone. Lots of guava, little grapefruit, passionfruit to finish. Pretty tasty.
Tried from Draft on 10 Mar 2017 at 19:35

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
On tap at Brother’s Beer. Pours gold. Spice, yeast, cloves, pepper, little peach. There’s something a little salty, little savoury, bacon type notes, especially in the aroma. Very yeast forward, and I think at the expense of a more well rounded beer.
Tried from Draft on 02 Mar 2017 at 16:53

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
On tap at Brothers Beer. Nice amount of hops, very clean, little caramel malt. Really not much else to say. Well put together but nothing really interesting about it.
Tried from Draft on 11 Feb 2017 at 20:55

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
On tap at Vultures Lane. Pours pale. Slick body. Reasonably crisp. Dry grassiness, peach, lemon, nutty malts. Pretty dull.
Tried from Draft on 01 Feb 2017 at 23:06

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
On tap at Vultures Lane. Pours straw colour. Lots of mango, guava, passionfruit. Big tropical fruit. Nice malt backbone, nice full body and a clean bitter finish. Good.
Tried from Draft on 01 Feb 2017 at 19:55