Where I live, there's dry heat during the day with temperatures between 80º-90º. At night time, it gets as cold as 55º-65º.

If it was me that mentioned flavor, the tomato I grew turned out to be an accidental cross, rather than the stabilized Brandy Boy that I intended to grow. I'm growing out quite a few F2s, and all of them have pretty good flavor, so far. The F1 was kind of sour (not very sour), but good. The F2s range from mild to pleasantly but quite tart, and all have better taste and texture than the F1, so far. They tasted pretty good in an omelet (you might call it a frittata)—better than plain and raw. I wonder if you might like your regular Brandy Boys that way.

It might have been that the soil was low in potassium. Extra potassium can make tomatoes less acidic (but it can also make them more mealy and firm). It also might have been the weather. In my area, tomatoes tend to be more acidic at some times of the year. You might not have been watering enough, but I doubt that's the case.

Tums did nothing to or for your tomatoes. Sometimes they vary a bit in flavor from one to another. Brandy Boy is one of my favorites.

I grow mostly heirloom tomatoes. BrandyBoy is the exception. Always delicious for us. I would save the tums for myself and use a well balanced organic fertilizer,

i just pulled my brandy boys, decent production , good taste, but alot of catfacing and poor disease resistance. if i have to put up with disease i'd rather grow the heirloom florida pink/

I have grown Brandy Boy for the last 2 years. Last year I got one ripe tomato. I thought I`d try again this year. My Brandy Boy has a total of 5 green tomatoes on it. Seems it does not like the Nevada desert and is better suited elsewhere.

I tasted one or more Brandy Boy F1s some weeks ago. They were pretty good. They weren't sour, for sure. Kind of like the taste of other Brandywine types, but somewhat different. Good quality. Very similar to my near-multiflora Brandy Boy cross F2. I wouldn't call any Brandywine types I've tasted sweet, but I'd call Malinovoe Chudo sweet! Sure, they have some sweetness, but not enough that someone who isn't used to looking for it would notice, IMO (unless they have a different tongue than mine, which understandably everybody does).