The PhD in Molecular Biology is just as happy to experiment with traditional ingredients as he is with the unconventional. But Julian doesn’t focus blindly on the past. Their flagship beer is the Van Vollenhove Stout, a once-popular Dutch classic that almost faded away into obscurity. He still brews some of his predecessor’s classic recipes, but using contemporary brewing techniques and ingredients. This is where our former brew master Julian breathed new life into the old brouwerij de Gekroonde Valk. If you don’t dawdle, you can get to the former animal shelter in the 19th-century building in around 15 minutes. The most obvious choice at that point would be Poesiat & Kater. We return to our ‘normal’ opening hours, we’ll close our doors at eight o’clock sharp, when the night is still young and Amsterdam-Oost has plenty of other places to visit. But be forewarned: you might end up sitting here a bit longer than you’d planned. Most of our classic beers will be available on tap, and we’ll probably have a special or two brewed especially for the tasting bar. If social distancing isn’t required by then, simply take a seat next to someone at the long tables on our terrace. Our tasting bar de Molen has been a favourite meeting place for locals and tourists, students and old Amsterdammers, artists and builders for decades. Walk in that direction and you’ll end up at our very first brewery. When you’re done at Brouwerij Homeland, leave the Navy yard and walk towards the National Maritime Museum and you’ll eventually notice the De Gooyer windmill rising up over your left shoulder. As the temperature rises, don’t be surprised to see everyone in Amsterdam cooling off in the harbour in their hottest swimwear.
And after a beer at the old Navy yard, you’ll have an even greater appreciation for the view of the replica East Indiaman ‘Amsterdam’ at the National Maritime Museum and the towering copper-bottomed bow of NEMO. At 3.5%, Ketelbinkie is a light breeze among beers, so you won’t feel like you’re fighting heavy seas as you walk to the next stop. If the sun’s shining on Homeland’s terrace, then you can’t go wrong by ordering a Ketelbinkie and let your tongue be tickled by the fruitily effervescent extra-light New England IPA. They’ve added more kettles and a canning line that’s rolling a wide selection of colourfully nautical beers out into the city. But since then, they’ve expanded to fill their own ‘beer wharf’ on the former Navy base.
We’ve mentioned our colleagues before, when they were only brewing two small batches of their own beer. That’s because the pension where they tap their own beers is located exactly halfway between Amsterdam Centraal Station and our tasting bar De Molen. The ideal first stop for those coming to the neighbourhood from the west or by train is Brouwerij Homeland. Now that the sidewalk cafés are open again and the sun shines until late at night, it’s a good time to take a walk along all the breweries in Amsterdam-Oost. Some of our most interesting colleagues in Amsterdam can be found just down the street from the characteristic windmill where it all began for us. Several breweries popped up in the decades that followed, and Amsterdam’s east side still seems to be a popular nesting ground for brewers. But that slowly began to change after our ostrich built its nest in the former bathhouse in Amsterdam-Oost. Legend says that was a reference to the monotonous landscape of Dutch breweries in the mid-1980s, when very few people were brewing interesting beer. Posted by brouwerijhetij in News On Jul 01 2021īefore we updated the labels on our beers, our iconic ostrich was depicted in an empty, arid desert.
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