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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7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can sourced from Beer Republic and shared at home (24/05/2020) - (new brewery tick) hazy yellow orange with a white head. Juicy fruity aroma and taste with some vibrant notes of grapefruit and tangerine, some peach, nice juiciness, sweet malty support and a solid hoppy finish. Good stuff.
Tried from Can on 12 Jun 2020 at 11:58

7/10
33cl bottle. A clear yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma of intense tropical fruits, mango, pineapple. Taste of resinous hops, apricot, zest, grapefruit, citrus, long bitter finish.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Apr 2020 at 19:07

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
500ml bottle from Island Grocery in Oneroa on a walk in Waiheke. Strong passionfruit flavor, aroma too but not as much (but hard to tell drank out of bottle). Very sour. Fine bubbly carbonation. Nice soft biscuit sweetness (like Young Master’s CCT Gose). Not bad but just not my favorite style.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Mar 2020 at 00:32

6.6/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draft. An unclear yellow beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of citrus fruits, hops, spices, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of hops, spices, citrus fruits, and malt, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried from Draft on 19 Mar 2020 at 08:04

4.6/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Draft. A hazy yellow beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of spices and fruit. The flavor is sweet with notes of spices, fruit, and malt, leading to a dry finish. Odd - as most white stouts - I don't get the fascination.
Tried from Draft on 19 Mar 2020 at 07:51

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
330ml bottle. Hazy, yellow-ish, bright golden colour with average, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, white head. Juicy, tropical fruity and slightly piney, hoppy aroma, biscuity pale malty background, notes of pineapple, passion fruit, some mandarine, orange, a touch of peanut, resinous overtones. Taste is juicy, citrusy and tropical fruity hoppy, slightly dry oaty, minimally diluted notes of passion fruit, some lemon and orange, lemon juice, bitter zesty overtones. Very clean for an Hazy IPA, not as juicy and fruity as possible, relatively bitter and piney as well. Kind of NEIPA / West Coast IPA hybrid in the Kernel way. Very nice.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Mar 2020 at 00:06

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Schooner on tap at Szimpla near Auckland Airport. Crystal clear amber beer with a thin bubbly white head. Light carbonation, nose is guava and assorted tropical fruits. Clingy lacing. Zingy with some bitter hoppy woodiness. Tasty, easy to drink. Dry and fruity in the finish. Nothing ground-breaking but pleasant enough.
Tried from Draft on 08 Sep 2019 at 09:41

4.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4
Pours with very light gold, some carbonation, and tiny foam. Muddy hops like dirt and a hint of unsweetened malt on the nose. Flavour is meaty vegetably hops and nothing else. Okay oiliness on the mouth but the lack of sweetness and malt is troubling. It's more of a jumbled unsweetened IPA.
Tried on 05 Aug 2019 at 09:42

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
On tap at the Lumsden. Pours rubescent black. Bitter roast coffee, espresso, toast, cacao nibs, bit of a red fruit plum thing. Medium body. Good.
Tried from Draft on 15 Apr 2019 at 19:50

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
On tap at Vultures Lane. Pours slightly hazy yellow. Orange, lemon, pepper, floral, bit of grain. Medium body. Subtle and quite nice.
Tried from Draft on 27 Mar 2019 at 09:34