I was recently in Prague to judge in a beer contest. Prague has a warm spot in my heart and I've been there many times, the last time being exactly ten years ago. The first time was over thirty years ago on a school trip and later I travelled here for Bier&cO (because we imported ...
13Feb 2017
OHIM – Heineken, Punch and Lagunitas: maybe the ‘green monster’ isn’t so bad?
Heineken now appears to be the majority shareholder of Lagunitas - more about that later. In England pubs continue to close their doors on a daily - because more and more beer is drunk at home several thousand classic public houses disappeared in recent years from the streets - but there are still more than ...
20Jan 2017
TGIF: Café Foeders – new beer gem in Amsterdam
As long as I can remember the place was café Amstelvaart, or really café-billiard, and that confounded billiards table was inconveniently placed in the centre of the pub. I have been in once and didn’t stay long: although rumor has it this place was the oldest pub in De Pijp (as the area is called), ...
08Jun 2016
Heineken’s hair shirt is stained and torn
"Under CEO Geert Minnart Heineken put on the hair shirt': it is the catchy opening sentence of an article in Het Parool on Tuesday, June 7, 2016. Under the equally catchy title" Just delivering beer is not enough” the Belgium-born Holland on-trade director gets to tell how well Heineken thinks along with its on-trade entrepreneurs ...
30Nov 2015
OHIM Tirade – Heineken puts last nail in pub’s coffin
Misset Horeca ’s web site told us Heineken is about to increase pricing towards bars, again. Vitriolic they wrote landlords ‘received the meanwhile traditional, annual letter with new pricing’ – not just very true, sometimes that letter came thrice a year – but other than that, no word of criticism by Misset. How incorrect! Heineken The ...
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