Tooheys
Tooheys was founded in Sydney in 1869, when the Irish-born brothers John and James Toohey took over a cordial factory at Darling Harbour and brewed their first dark ale there. The business moved to the Standard Brewery in Surry Hills in 1875, listed publicly in 1902 and added its first lager, Tooheys New Special, in 1931. Since the early 1970s brewing has been done at Lidcombe in western Sydney. Tooheys belongs to Lion and has been part of the Japanese Kirin group since 2009.
Beers by Tooheys
5 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Tooheys brew across 3 style families.
Across these 5 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one. 2 of them come through every single beer.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
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.
Tooheys Extra Dry Platinum
Their beers place in the Top 61% of the catalogue on average, across 5 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Tooheys
Tooheys was founded in Sydney in 1869, when the Irish-born brothers John and James Toohey took over a cordial factory at Darling Harbour and brewed their first dark ale there. The business moved to the Standard Brewery in Surry Hills in 1875, listed publicly in 1902 and added its first lager, Tooheys New Special, in 1931. Since the early 1970s brewing has been done at Lidcombe in western Sydney. Tooheys belongs to Lion and has been part of the Japanese Kirin group since 2009.
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