Tyskie () is a Silesian-Polish beer brand originating from , a brewery in the Upper Silesian town of Tychy founded in 1629. It is produced by Kompania Piwowarska, a Polish brewing group that has been part of Asahi Breweries since 2017.
Beers
The main brands are Tyskie Gronie (pale lager).
History
Beer has been produced in Tychy continuously for almost 400 years.
Types of beer produced
In its beginnings, the brewery produced three kinds of beer: mailings, yeast and tableware. Only the high quality beer was intended for sale, and the other two were a beer allowance drunk mainly by brewers and their families. In the early nineteenth century the brewery produced only two beverages: beer and Bavarian malt, both top-fermenting. Bavarian malt with a classical composition, saturated color was brown, sweet, and low-hopped. The standard favorite was the dark niskoekstraktowe, weak and only for immediate consumption. After the expansion of the brewery in the nineteenth century and the introduction of bottom-fermenting, they started to produce Tyskie lager, a relatively short Bavarian beer. The first beers were light and were sold under the Książęce brand. In the interwar period, popular brands from Tyskie were the Książęce Tyskie Pilsen (Princely Tychy Pilsner), the Książęce Tyskie Export, the Książęce Tyskie Beer full, and Tyskie Porter.
Export
Tyskie sales accounted for 18% of the Polish market in 2009. Tyskie also has a large export distribution through its parent company. The main export brands are Tyskie Gronie, a 5.0% pale lager Tyskie Gronie is 5.2% ABV in produced by Tychy Brewery Princely.
Tyskie Gronie (abv 5.0%) is also brewed and canned by the Grolsche brewery in Enschede, Netherlands, for the UK market (imported by Asahi UK Ltd).
Marketing
Tyskie bottle labels depict a royal crown to commemorate John III Sobieski king of Poland, who was born in 1629, the same year the family von Promnitz established a brewery in the town of Tychy.
Tourism
In 2004, the Tyskie Brewing Museum was founded on the brewery premises in Tychy.