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Stars of the Collection
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ANNUAL REPORT 2025
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Stars
Stars of the collection
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Expertise from our Eastern neighbours
Founder Gerard Adriaan Heineken acquired the Amsterdam De Hooiberg (The Haystack) brewery in 1864, a decade after the…
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To the Far East
In this poster from 1939, brewer’s assistant Kobus proudly presents a beer bottle from the Heineken Brewery in Surabaya on Java,…
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Pioneers in Bavarian beer
On 22 January 1868, Gerard Heineken presented the first brew in his new brewery. The office clerk responsible for the festive…
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Hit
Four songs from four Heineken commercials are on The Heineken Hits CD sung by Bert Heerink. In the photograph you can see the CD…
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Good for the skin
The ancestor of brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is wine yeast: a genetic mix of single-celled micro-organisms that…
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Crunch the numbers!
Heineken's financial records are as old as the brewery itself. At the time the branches in Amsterdam (1864) and Rotterdam (1873)…
