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The very first and most unofficial Brand Beer Page on the internet!

This is a page dedicated to my most favourite beer: Brand beer. It's brewed in Wijlre, Limburg, in the south of the Netherlands since 1340, and in 1871 it was taken over by Frederik Edmond Brand, and henceforth the brewery became the royal Brand Beer Brewery. Unfortunately, the brewery has been taken over again recently by the Dutch brewery Heineken, which is a real disappointment to the real Limburger.

I've scanned some old bottle-labels of four different kinds of beer that Brand makes, they are different nowadays, so I thought it would be nice to put them on my page:

Here are some quotes from the labels on the bottles, it's in old Dutch, so I'm sorry if you can't read this:

Citaat uit "Cleerbuch" van Heerlichkeit Wylre anno 1420: "Dat binnen der heerlichkeit Wylre ein panhuis is und soll sein, so dat niemandt biere en sall verkoupen binnen der vurss, idt en sei mit willen des brouwers, die in dat vurss, panhuis sidt."

"Rond 1300 ontstaat in de heerlijkheid Wijre in het hart van het zuidlimburgse heuvelland, een brouwerij die in 1871 eigendom wordt van Frederik Edmond Brand."

"Brand Bierbrouwerij in Wijlre mag met recht de oudste brouwerij van Nederland genoemd worden. Als vanzelfsprekend staan bij Brand een hecht gevoel voor traditie en een grote liefde voor het brouwersvak voorop. Daarom worden de bieren van Brand niet gepasteuriseerd en munten ze uit door hun natuurlijk frisse smaak."

It's possible for people in the Netherlands to become a member of a club called "Brand Uptimisten" (become a member, check out the official Brand Beer Page). This name is derived from the wonderful "UP" beer which stands for Urtyp Pilsener. This is a beer brewed in a very traditional way, not like normal pilseners are brewed.
In Maastricht there's lots of cafe's with Brand beer, because Maastricht is the capital of Limburg, and while Brand is Limburgian beer, it is served there a lot amongst others (Gulpener beer, Ridder beer, Alfa and Leeuw are also Limburgian beers). In Eindhoven, the city where I'm studying Building Technology, Brand beer is rarely served in cafe's, but my friends and I always go to our most favourite cafe in Eindhoven, which just recently stopped serving Brand: cafe 't Brugske (meaning: the little bridge). Since 2000 they decided to start serving Leeuw beer. It's a quaint little cafe which is worth going to if you ever visit Eindhoven.

The following beers are currently being brewed by Brand, if you'd like to view the labels better, just click on them to enlarge.