Brand Cuvée Pilsener

Formerly brewed at Brand Bierbrouwerij (Heineken)
Style: Pilsener
Wijlre, Netherlands

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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An orange beer with a small white disappearing head. The aroma is sweet with notes of caramel and grain. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel and an OK bitter end. It leaves a sticky feeling in the mouth.

Bottled. Deep golden colour, mediumsized foamy head. Malty and hoppy nose along with a weak sting of alcohol. Flavour is sweet malty, with some hops balancing up the sweetness. Some breadyness and weak fruitiness also noteable. A bit papery in finish, and stivky, but dry palate.

Bottle. Bready aroma. Golden colour, OK white head. A little sweet with some hoppy breadiness in the flavour. Low bitterness.

Bottled (BB 07/2006)
Thanks to Zoli, ha1ag for this one.
Golden color, small creamy white head. Nose is more sweet malty than hoppy, wet newspaper is dominant aroma. Medium-bodied. Cardboard flavor with el cheapo grassy hops.Some sweetness in the finish and even alcohol. Not much "cuvée", not even much pilsener.

Apple and hoparoma. Delicate hopflavor with apple. Medium bodied. Just a bit of glue and aluminium. Delicate indeed, but disappointing.

(bottle) Deep golden colour with a foamy white medium head. Herbal hoppy nose with grainy malts. Slightly sweet malty taste, clean and crispy mouthfeel, medium body, quite rounded dry and bitter herbal hoppy finish. OK.

What do they call this Cuvée? Dark golden pils with a white head. Again, german hops but nos as skunky as Urtyp. Oxidized malt with no hops in mouth, too sweet. Boring. May 1,2005 at 2nd KBC Festival, Den Bosch, NL.

Golden; initial high carbonation to terribly even, yellowish head, evenly collapsing. Creamy, nearly lactic nose. I seem to detect some low-level diacetyl; a lttle malt. High levels of hopbitterness in the head, and still a good dose in the beer. I think there’s some diacetyl, but at the treshold of detection level. Retronasal some metallic bitterness, and a fruitlike flavour - bitter pineapple? Light bodied, not thin. I’m surprising myself, but I rather follow the Heineken corporate newspeak, rather than the PINT-reflex. I do not estimate this beer is dumbed down - I rather like it, and I always thought the Brand ’Up overrated.

Dark golden coloured. Slightly hoppy and rather soft pilsener. Very drinkable.

Old hop aroma. Dark golden color, white head, good lace. Malty, light sweet, hoppy, light bitter, thick. So Brand stopped bottling Sylvester, Dubbelbock and Imperator and this is what we got back! My god!