tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post7864683372609620854..comments2024-03-28T13:20:29.156-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Dutch Lager Styles 1870 - 1960 (part one)Ron Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-22441926655004654382015-06-25T04:18:46.967-07:002015-06-25T04:18:46.967-07:00Interestingly, many old top-fermenting Dutch brewe...Interestingly, many old top-fermenting Dutch breweries were already experimenting with 'Bavarian beer' (i.e. bottom-fermeting), though on a small scale. In 1844, the Drie Kruisen brewery of The Hague advertised that they were applying themselves to brewing the 'generally sought after Bavarian beer' and they would continue to do so in the following years, in combination with their range of top-fermenting beers such as gerste, princesse, brown, faro and even pale ale. The director, B.M. Perk published pamphlets on the need of changing excise laws in 1854 and 1857. Also, I think he might be the anonymous writer of De praktische bierbrouwer ('The practical beer brewer'), a rare 1866 brewing manual which described both bottom-fermenting and top-fermenting Dutch beers.<br />Other breweries followed, like De Beijersche kuip in Groningen (1847), and breweries in Elburg (1847), Middelburg (1848), Arnhem (1849), Leiden (1856), Asten (1856) and Knijpe (1860). Oranjeboom of Rotterdam was producing some Bavarian beer from at least 1857.<br />Another interesting early adapter was De Hooiberg of Amsterdam, which announced they were brewing 'best Bavarian beer' in 1858. Their director at that time was J.E. Eijckmans Fzn of Gorinchem (and born in Boom, Belgium), who left the company in 1860. Of course, in 1864 De Hooiberg was bought by 22 year old G.A. Heineken, who would then turn it into one of the most important lager breweries of Holland. But it wasn't Heineken who introduced bottom-fermenting there; it was Eijckmans.<br />For more, including an early recipe of 'Dutch-Bavarian beer', see http://dossierhop.nl/verlorenbieren51/ (my apologies to the linguistically challenged, because it's in Dutch)<br />Roel Mulderhttp://roelmulder.nlnoreply@blogger.com