# Sawmill Brewery — Matakana, Auckland

> Sawmill Brewery in Matakana, Auckland, New Zealand scores 3.95 out of 5 — Fine, #28 in New Zealand. 307 beers tracked, mostly IPA.

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Sawmill Brewery is a brewery in Matakana, Auckland, New Zealand. We grade it Fine, with a score of 3.95 out of 5 on the beer it brews — #28 in New Zealand. Of the 307 beers we track, 48% are IPA and 17% Pale Ale.

## Rating

- Score: 3.95 out of 5
- Grade: Fine 🙂 — Make genuinely good beer, if not the pint you will still be talking about next year.
- Ranked: #28 in New Zealand · #2,587 worldwide
- Popularity: Well rated
- Beers tracked: 307

## About

We are an independent, New Zealand owned brewery run by a small team. For 20 years we have been brewing fresh quality beer using New Zealand grown hops and malted barley.

Independence means thinking for ourselves. We have an ethos of resourcefulness and creativity in how our brewery is run. We are proud to be New Zealand’s first B Corp certified Brewery.

We want our beer to taste clean and to honour the ingredients. We are in to making styles that have been around for a long time and seeing how they turn out in our hands, and in our brewery. These beers have a heritage and yet making them up north will always give them an edge.

We appreciate our place. This raw landscape has a bearing on everything we do and people here are resourceful, creative and hardworking.

## What they brew

- IPA — 48% of the beers we track
- Pale Ale — 17% of the beers we track
- Pale Lager — 15% of the beers we track
- Sour / Other — 6% of the beers we track
- Bock — 5% of the beers we track
- Stout / Porter — 5% of the beers we track
- Other — 4% of the beers we track

## Find them

- Address: 1004 Leigh Road, Matakana, Auckland, New Zealand
- Coordinates: -36.3293451, 174.7314209
- Website: https://www.sawmillbrewery.co.nz/

## Breweries nearby

- [8 Wired](https://finding.beer/brewery/8-wired-9658.md) — 3.90, Fine — Warkworth, Auckland — 7 mi away
- [Colab Brewing](https://finding.beer/brewery/colab-brewing-12911.md) — 3.76, Fine — Warkworth, Auckland — 9 mi away
- [Pacific Coast Brewery](https://finding.beer/brewery/pacific-coast-brewery-28986.md) — 3.73, Fine — Mangawhai, Northland Region — 17 mi away
- [Laughing Bones Brewing Co.](https://finding.beer/brewery/laughing-bones-brewing-co-17160.md) — 3.50, Poor — Auckland — 21 mi away
- [Captains](https://finding.beer/brewery/captains-32355.md) — 2.59, Limited — Auckland — 25 mi away
- [Citizen Collective](https://finding.beer/brewery/citizen-collective-23258.md) — 3.45, Poor — Auckland — 26 mi away
- [Liberty Brewing](https://finding.beer/brewery/liberty-brewing-8354.md) — 3.90, Fine — Helensville, Auckland — 28 mi away
- [McLeod's Brewery](https://finding.beer/brewery/mcleods-brewery-9259.md) — 4.51, Exceptional — Waipu, Northland Region — 29 mi away

## Rankings this brewery appears in

- [Best breweries in New Zealand](https://finding.beer/breweries/new-zealand.md)

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