Brauerei Reichenbrand (Reichenbrander)
Regional Brewery
in Chemnitz,
Saxony,
Germany 🇩🇪
Associated Venue: Bräu-Stübl Reichenbrand
Established in 1874
Bergt Bräu from Reichenbrand, still a household name for many Chemnitz residents. Never completely gone, but gone for a moment. Not voluntarily, because in the GDR everything had to belong to everyone. With this, Bergt Bräu became Reichenbrander in the “80s” and “90s”. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Bergt Bräu has been back, at least in the trademark of the Reichenbrand brewery and thus on the labels again - albeit unnoticed by some. So in 2020 we thought it was time to start the Bergt Bräu revival in a new outfit.
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500ml bottle. Clear golden colour with average, frothy, diminishing, white head. Grainy and strawy aroma. Taste is strawy, minimally sweet hints of cereals, dry, minimally floral hoppy overtones; half-way lasting hoppy finish. Not a Pilsener IMO.
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Bouteille:Pale greenish-golden, hazy, small foamy layer, sweetish-dusty nose with strawy edges, fruitiness from far behind,; mild bitter-sweet flavour, light to medium bodied; increasing driness towards the bitter-fruity finish. Not very well rounded, still relatively well drinkable…
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500ml bottle. Clear golden colour with average, frothy, more than half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Malty aroma with a bready and strawy touch, cautious hoppy counterweight. Taste is minimally sweet malty with a bready touch, cautious hints of floral honey, grassy hoppy overtones. Relatively light malt body.
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(bottle) Hazy, pale golden colour with a medium-sized foamy white head. Slightly grainy malty aroma with hints of herbal hops and delicate spots of citrus. Slightly bitter flavour, light to medium bodied with a spritzy carbonation. Mildly grainy pale malty base with herbal accents; moderately dry and slightly bitter hoppy finish. Likeable, but nothing outstanding. 26.X.13
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Heller, süß brotiger Antrunk. Spritzig, eher geringe Malzigkeit, was nicht zuletzt an der Süße liegt. Mild hefig, passend. Dann kommen deztne Fruchtnoten für kurze Zeit auf, die aber nicht richtig eingebunden werden. Zum Ende herber, süß bleibend, dunkel malziger. 9/9/10/9/10/9
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Bottle: Light amber coloured, quickly collapsing loose off-white head, nutty and caramelly nose, hops hardly detectable, pretty sweet flavour, medium bodied and a bit sticky; short sweet-caramelly finish with a certain fruitiness. Not bad, but too sweet and monotonous...
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(bottle) Clear, deep golden to light-amber colour with a mid-sized and slightly off-white foamy head. Bready cara-malty aroma with hints of biscuits with a tinge of herbal and delicately grassy hops. Moderately sweet and mildly bitter flavour, almost medium bodied with a modest carbonation. Bready malt character with notes of caramel and herbal hoppy spots; sweet-bitter, quite rounded malty and hoppy finish with herbal and shy nutty notes. Solid pale Bock. 24.IX.13
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50 cl bottle @ Timo A, BBE 07/2013
Aroma has butter, some grassy notes and herbs. Flavour has strong herbal notes, some grass, hints of grainy malt and honey. Nice, I like the herbal and grassy notes here. Gets some bohemian pils character at the end of the glass.
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500ml bottle. Clear golden colour with small to average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Standard Hallertauer bitter hoppy aroma, grainy undertones. Taste is dry, minimally soapy hoppy, grainy undertones. Fresh, light, mediocre.
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(bottle) Clear, pale golden colour with a blond medium-sized foamy head. Slightly doughy and delicately grainy pale malty aroma with notes of grassy and slightly herbal hops. Moderately bitter flavour, light to medium bodied with a modest carbonation. Strawy and slightly doughy malt-character with bitter hoppy and slightly herbal notes; dry and moderately hop bitter finish. 09.IV.13