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Access to the Heineken Gravity Book has prompted me to expand the section about the Netherlands in "Blitzkrieg!". I'm finding it a useful insight into what happened on the other side of the conflict. In some ways it's a mirror image of what happened in the UK. While in Holland things went downhill quickly after the summer of 1942, in the UK beer strengths remained the same in the second half of the war. Unlike in WW I.
Heineken Pils was about dead on average for Holland. Though there was a surprising degree of variation amongst rival beers, especially in terms of ABV.
The gravities are mostly pretty similar – there’s only 0.66º Plato between the highest and the lowest. Yet, due to huge variance in the degree of attenuation, there’s a difference of over 1% ABV. Due to crappy attenuation, Phoenix Pils was barely over 4% ABV. Hardly stronger than Heineken Lagerbier.
Dutch Pils before WW II
Date
Year
Brewer
Town
OG Plato
FG Plato
ABV
App. Atten-uation
Colour
14th Dec
1939
Amstel
Amsterdam
11.87
2.20
5.10
82.17%
0.58
14th Dec
1939
Oranjeboom
Rotterdam
11.81
2.42
4.93
80.26%
0.68
14th Dec
1939
Phoenix
Amersfoort
11.45
3.59
4.08
69.61%
0.49
14th Dec
1939
ZHB
Den Haag
11.85
3.58
4.30
70.77%
0.52
14th Dec
1939
Drie Hoefijzers
Breda
11.94
3.12
4.64
74.77%
0.43
14th Dec
1939
Van Vollenhoven
Amsterdam
11.69
3.08
4.51
74.54%
0.85
14th Dec
1939
Grolsch
Groenlo
12.01
2.82
4.81
77.36%
0.53
30th Jan
1940
Bavaria
Lieshout
12.11
2.22
5.36
82.38%
0.5
Average
11.84
2.88
4.72
76.48%
0.57
Source:
Rapporten van laboratoriumonderzoeken naar producten van Heinekenbrouwerijen in binnen- en buitenland en naar producten van andere brouwerijen held at the Amsterdamse Stadsarchief, document number 834 - 1794.
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Access to the Heineken Gravity Book has prompted me to expand the section about the Netherlands in "Blitzkrieg!". I'm finding it a useful insight into what happened on the other side of the conflict. In some ways it's a mirror image of what happened in the UK. While in Holland things went downhill quickly after the summer of 1942, in the UK beer strengths remained the same in the second half of the war. Unlike in WW I.
Heineken Pils was about dead on average for Holland. Though there was a surprising degree of variation amongst rival beers, especially in terms of ABV.
The gravities are mostly pretty similar – there’s only 0.66º Plato between the highest and the lowest. Yet, due to huge variance in the degree of attenuation, there’s a difference of over 1% ABV. Due to crappy attenuation, Phoenix Pils was barely over 4% ABV. Hardly stronger than Heineken Lagerbier.
Dutch Pils before WW II
Date
Year
Brewer
Town
OG Plato
FG Plato
ABV
App. Atten-uation
Colour
14th Dec
1939
Amstel
Amsterdam
11.87
2.20
5.10
82.17%
0.58
14th Dec
1939
Oranjeboom
Rotterdam
11.81
2.42
4.93
80.26%
0.68
14th Dec
1939
Phoenix
Amersfoort
11.45
3.59
4.08
69.61%
0.49
14th Dec
1939
ZHB
Den Haag
11.85
3.58
4.30
70.77%
0.52
14th Dec
1939
Drie Hoefijzers
Breda
11.94
3.12
4.64
74.77%
0.43
14th Dec
1939
Van Vollenhoven
Amsterdam
11.69
3.08
4.51
74.54%
0.85
14th Dec
1939
Grolsch
Groenlo
12.01
2.82
4.81
77.36%
0.53
30th Jan
1940
Bavaria
Lieshout
12.11
2.22
5.36
82.38%
0.5
Average
11.84
2.88
4.72
76.48%
0.57
Source:
Rapporten van laboratoriumonderzoeken naar producten van Heinekenbrouwerijen in binnen- en buitenland en naar producten van andere brouwerijen held at the Amsterdamse Stadsarchief, document number 834 - 1794.
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