DB Breweries
DB's first brewery opened in 1929 on open farmland in Ōtāhuhu, Auckland, and still brews today as the Waitemata Brewery. Dominion Breweries, now DB, was set up by W Joseph Coutts and his sons with Sir Henry Kelliher as managing director; Morton Coutts later discovered continuous fermentation. DB Draught has its home in a Timaru brewery, Tui's Mangatainoka site is now a museum and pub, and about 500 people work for DB with Heineken backing.
Beers by DB Breweries
4 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
DB Breweries brew across 2 style families.
Across these 4 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
With 4 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
Compared with 658 other breweries brewing Lager and Pale Lager:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
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About DB Breweries
DB's first brewery opened in 1929 on open farmland in Ōtāhuhu, Auckland, and still brews today as the Waitemata Brewery. Dominion Breweries, now DB, was set up by W Joseph Coutts and his sons with Sir Henry Kelliher as managing director; Morton Coutts later discovered continuous fermentation. DB Draught has its home in a Timaru brewery, Tui's Mangatainoka site is now a museum and pub, and about 500 people work for DB with Heineken backing.
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