Sawmill Lager
Bancroft Brewing Company
- From:
- Bancroft Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.55 | pDev: 5.35%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 26, 2024
- Added:
- Sep 23, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Spark420
3.69/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.69/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Not a bad brew. Looks good, smells good, tastes good. Rather drink this then say Budweiser or coors. Has that Ontario craft premium price attached to it.
May 14, 2022
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.69/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a nice golden colour with a head of the right size. Biscuits and corn on the nose. The taste is nicely plain, no nonsense. Grains dominate the taste, with a nicely carbonated mouthfeel
July 15 2022
Feb 12, 2022July 15 2022
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.4/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.4/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
473 mL can from the LCBO; dated Nov 22 2021 and served slightly chilled.
Pours a clear pale yellow colour, capped with nearly two fingers of puffy, soapy, sparkling white head that collapses within two or three minutes' time. A generous collar of suds and a few swaths of lace cling to the edge of the glass, encircling a thin, filmy cap - it's an attractive lager, I'll give it that. The nose is uninteresting at best, offering up suggestions of cereal grains and doughy, bready pale malts.
It's a clean-tasting lager, but also very 'one note'. It tastes of gritty, grainy pale malts and cereal sweetness; maybe a hint of something doughy/bready, but mostly just grainy. I might be imagining the wisp of grassy hay preceding the grainy-sweet finish and off-dry aftertaste. Light in body, with slightly assertive carbonation that feels crisp on the tongue; feels a bit creamy, smooth and pleasing in the mouth. Clearly meant for mass consumption, and I see no reason why it wouldn't serve admirably in that role.
Final Grade: 3.4, an acceptable B-. Small town breweries need some sort of pale lager on their menu to appease the masses, and Bancroft's is Sawmill Lager - an underwhelming beer at first glance, but I'm actually hard pressed to come up with any serious complaints. This is the sort of beer that any old fan of Bud Light or what-have-you can drink and be totally fine with - it's clean and a little malty, with almost no depth whatsoever beyond that. I'm not in a hurry to run out and buy more, but it's at least a little better than the macros.
Feb 10, 2022Pours a clear pale yellow colour, capped with nearly two fingers of puffy, soapy, sparkling white head that collapses within two or three minutes' time. A generous collar of suds and a few swaths of lace cling to the edge of the glass, encircling a thin, filmy cap - it's an attractive lager, I'll give it that. The nose is uninteresting at best, offering up suggestions of cereal grains and doughy, bready pale malts.
It's a clean-tasting lager, but also very 'one note'. It tastes of gritty, grainy pale malts and cereal sweetness; maybe a hint of something doughy/bready, but mostly just grainy. I might be imagining the wisp of grassy hay preceding the grainy-sweet finish and off-dry aftertaste. Light in body, with slightly assertive carbonation that feels crisp on the tongue; feels a bit creamy, smooth and pleasing in the mouth. Clearly meant for mass consumption, and I see no reason why it wouldn't serve admirably in that role.
Final Grade: 3.4, an acceptable B-. Small town breweries need some sort of pale lager on their menu to appease the masses, and Bancroft's is Sawmill Lager - an underwhelming beer at first glance, but I'm actually hard pressed to come up with any serious complaints. This is the sort of beer that any old fan of Bud Light or what-have-you can drink and be totally fine with - it's clean and a little malty, with almost no depth whatsoever beyond that. I'm not in a hurry to run out and buy more, but it's at least a little better than the macros.
Reviewed by TerryW from Canada (ON)
3.31/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.31/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Clear gold, moderate head, decent lacing. Nose is grainy, and malty sweet. Some bite from carbonation, grassy hops, malty sweetness, a hint of bitterness to finish. Drinkable, but common.
Nov 18, 2020
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