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ANNUAL REPORT 2024
Our Annual Report 2024 is available online. Click on the image to see what we have been up to in 2024.
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Stars of the collection
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Bock beer month
German Bockbier came to the Netherlands in the mid-19th century. In 1870, the year of its foundation, Beiersch Bierbrouwerij De…
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Brewery in the polder
In 1971, Heineken purchased 80 hectares of land in the municipality of Zoeterwoude in the Oude Groenendijkse polder, also known…
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A utopian idea?
With this treatise on the ‘United States of Europe,’ in 1992 Alfred (Freddy) Heineken advocated a new, decentralized Europe. The…
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Bull’s eye in Chinese
The characteristic white and red Amstel logo known as the ‘bull’s eye’ is printed with Chinese characters on this egg-shaped…
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A golden moment
It was literally a golden moment for Gerard Heineken when he received this ‘medaille d’or’ at the 1875 international exhibition…
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Handwork
This hand-operated crown-capping machine tells the tale of beer bottling. In the beginning, breweries bottled on a small scale…
