Yeah, me to.
MY TAKE:
According to the experts, most of those varieties with "BRANDY" as part of their name are not even related to the original BW from PA.
I am growing a BW hybrid called Brandy Boy, which is claimed to be an off spring of the BW, with equally tasty tomatoes and also it is much productive than the mama. .
I have picked it after a year of studying and reading many reviews.

Time will tell.

Sey

Are you referring to the few hybrids that include Brandywine in their parentage like Brandy Boy, Genuwine, Red Rose, Lucky Cross, Big Brandy, etc. If so Brandy Boy is quite popular and has many discussions here about it. Same goes for Red Rose and Lucky Cross.

Or the many open pollinated sub-sets/sstrains of Brandywine like Pink, Landis, Sudduth's, Liam's, Quisenberry, OTV, etc.?

Dave

Brandywine discussions

Don't assume that the Brandywine is a PA original since Ben Quisenberry who is credited with getting seeds from Doris Sudduth Hill was from Ohio. The Red Brandywine might have better tendency of having PA beginnings. But to get to the meat of the original post I believe you can't get a good consensus on taste since that trait is very subjective. In one reported taste trial of 12 tomato varieties the 5 heirloom varieties in the trial were all rated lowest in flavor. Not all hybrid varieties should be prejudged to have undesirable flavor.

One attribute of all Brandy.... types is poor yield. The older types are very poor whereas many of the crosses like BrandyBoy are just moderately poor. There are many pink tomato varieties to choose from, many with consistently high quality and yield.

I'm a Brandywine lover, but I do NOT love waiting all season for just a few tomatoes.

Last year, I grew Brandywine cherry which was pretty and prolific, but I didn't think it tasted like Brandywine.

I also grew Little Lucky which has Brandywine as a parent. This was my FAVORITE tomato last year. It's smaller than BW and very pretty (red and yellow), and the taste was delish! I didn't find it all that late either!

Linda