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 ...

Excitement all around: who will be winning Café Top 100 EURO?

Monday 16 November 2015 will see Misset Horeca announcing the first-ever winner of the Café Top 100 EURO. It will be an interesting moment, since what once started as the ‘Bar of the Year’ competition (and in 2003 was re-named to Café Top 100 so to actually rank bars between them) and grew to be ...

OHIM – Great beer and (un)sensible beer awards

The past week will go down in history as a successful celebration of great Dutch beer. Amsterdam-based beer tasting bar ‘In de Wildeman’ presented its 25th Dutch Beer Week and awarded the 25th ‘Silver Bat’. Dutch beer consumer’s federation PINT celebrated its 35th anniversary and awarded its own medals. Between all of this we could ...

Heineken ‘buys’ Lagunitas – a great development for beer!

Coming as a total shock, the news of Lagunitas Brewing Company and Heineken forming a joint venture sparked a lot of mixed emotions and heated debate. With Heineken effectively buying 50% of the Lagunitas Brewing Co. it made a lot of people wonder whether they should cheer or cry – James Watt of Brewdog for ...

OHIM – Beer Tirade: SAB Miller sucks

No one would have expected Meantime boss Nick Miller to take matters into his own hands after stating ‘craft beer will die’ a couple of months ago. I don’t think he actually did it himself, but the recent mess Meantime Lager finds itself in comes close to marketing-induced suicide, that’s for sure. This monday sucks, ...