(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.

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.

Nice soft pilsener, nothing more, nothing less. The Brand Pilsener is a more bitter pilsener, the Urtyp is almost a bohemian pilsener, and this cuvee is just a soft watery pilsener.