Another victim of beer mythology (Oranjeboom)

Member Name: Tim Webb

Product:	Oranjeboom
Date:	23/07/06 (105 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Sounds foreign

Disadvantages: Not exactly a distinctive product

Oranjeboom used to be brewed in Breda, till InBev closed the brewery. Lord knows where it is brewed nowadays. It makes little sense to brew it anywhere that is far from the country where it is being sold because that involves transport costs.

And the beer has not been brewed since 1671. The name has existed since 1671. The current beer is more likely to have its origins in the Skol Lager experiment of the 1960s, when Europe's bigger brewers decided that consumers ought to get to like 5% alcohol by volume tinned fizzy yellow fluids or else give up drinking beer.

In the last 20 years Oranjeboom has had a couple of flirtations with improved character but bvroadly speaking it has never got out from being the Netherlands' third favourite lager name after Heineken and Amstel.

Summary: An interestingly named dull international lager that is as dull as most others