Gold brandy
Goldbrand is the name for a brandy cut that was first produced in the GDR . The legal name in the GDR was product with brandy , today the product is usually referred to as a specialty spirit or something similar.
Goldbrand was not a product of a single company, but a generic name under which several distilleries sold their products. In addition to the name, the alcohol content of 32 % by volume and the GDR EVP of 14.50 marks for the 0.7 l bottle were the same everywhere in the GDR.
Today, all over Germany, brandy blends, mostly with 28, sometimes even 30% alcohol by volume, are produced under the name Goldbrand . B. from the distilleries Nordbrand (Nordhausen) Schilkin (Berlin), Meeraner (Meerane), Winkelhausen (Güstrow), Abtshof (Magdeburg) and Allstedter Schlossberg (Sangerhausen). For large grocery chains u. a. from the Bimmerele distillery (Achern-Mösbach, Baden-Württemberg) the trademarks "Alliance Goldbrand" (Lidl) and "Kronenhof Goldbrand" (REWE) as well as from the Heydt distillery(Altenburg) produced the trademark "Grafenthaler Gold Spirituose" (Aldi-Nord). Brandy blends must contain at least 10% wine distillate. The remaining alcohol content is achieved by adding agricultural alcohol , and the color, reminiscent of real brandy, is achieved by adding sugar couleur .
A similar GDR product was the Goldkrone , which only differs from Goldbrand in the slightly higher amount of distillate added (20%).
literature
- Thomas Kochan: Blue Strangler. This is how the GDR drank , Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-351-02730-8
