Brand Cuvée Pilsener

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

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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This beer has a amber body - hue with a sweet initial flavor and a light body.

Brand Pilsener is a heavy tasting beer. It starts of like any other pilsner, soft and easy going, but finishes with a really bitter aftertaste. This is a beer that you either hate or love.

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.

Looks good in the glass and has a long lingering head with a good degree of lacing. This does have some ale like characteristics in the nose and fruity notes in the taste. This is a good beer but in reference to itsother two relatives rated tonight it does fall down a little bit.

I was prepared to be angryly dismissive of this "top fermented pilsner" but it’s actually quite good. Thin body like a pils, but distince ale character in the flavour and aroma. Hooray! A mainstream beer I like.

good pilsener but not as I they say, not more than regular

Very smooth, not too gassy. Rich, full flavour for a pilsener with a little sweetness, clean aftertaste.

As mentioned a few times before, this is quite a soft pilsener. A bit more hoppy than your average pilsener, but without the strong bitterness of the other Brand brews. Refreshing.

a little deeper coppercolor than there lager. It's a little bit sweet due to the fermatationprocess(hoge gisting)Nothing special at all. Maybe brewed fot commercial purpose to attract woman. But it's the worst beer of this brewer. I personaly think a marketing blunder of Heineken.

A nice pilsener. A bit sweet, perhaps. Though, some bitterness in finish. Nice yellow colour. Low head.