Tooheys Extra Dry Platinum

Brewed by Tooheys (Lion Nathan Co.)
Style: Pale Lager
Lidcombe, Australia

Well I tried big Ted and little Ted side by side and really there is not a real lot of difference, colour is a shade paler, head didn’t pour as large but the retention "or lack of" was the same, on the nose you can notice the extra alcohol and the taste is near enough to the original ted that the youth of today will give this a try and reckon it is a fantastic beer mainly cos it is 6.5% alcohol and it comes in a 8pk.

345ml bottle. Pale and opaque straw colour with a decent snow white cap . Good carbonation with a skunky detergent aroma that does nothing to invite you in. Crisp finish with a very beery taste that reminded me of days spent swilling cheap mass produced beer in my youth.

It like normal extra dry (which is fairly ordinary) with more alcohol. Good if you want to get drunk, bad if you actually like good beer. Slighlty metallic flavouring and lack of anything good going for it make it fairly ordinary all round. There are worse aussie beers out there but why do the big breweries make such bad ones at the moment,

Although tasting rather mechanical, when over analysing this beer, many faults do arise. To enjoy this beer you must have the sole purpose of getting hammerd, in a not-so-classly fashion. This beer goes down reasonably smooth when drinking for effect and not comfort. Overall a below average beer for true beer lovers.

Well CUB tried it with the Carlton Cold Shot, the Carlton Cold with a shot of vodka to send the alcohol content spiralling so our kiddies could get maggoted more quickly. Well it failed. It sucked. This version, while marginally better than the pathetic Carlton Cold Shot, is nonetheless a gimmick. Beer lovers beware. This stuff is totally useless, although it could quite easily be an alternative fuel for your car with the skyrocketing petrol prices. This stuff may actually start a car engine, but as a beer it just plain sucks.

Golden colour with diminishing head. Weak aroma of corn and brewing cereal. Thin bodied and high carbonation and slight dryness in the finish.

Terrible, much much much worse then regular extra dry which is a reasonable drop. Doesnt have the body or flavor to support the higher alcohol content. One of those beers that half a hour later you’ll still have the same bottle in your hand, half empty, flat and warm. Best served chilled and poured down the sink.

My son gave me one of these,great son but his flavours get mixed up.Mild gold colour with good head and carbonation a n aroma of hops and sea air like.Alas the flavour was straight metallic first mouthfull and very dry,tried another mouthfull some flavour of hop but all metallic and finish the same.He then tasted the Pils I was drinking and then re-tasted the tooheys,wish he had never bought it.