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21-11-2021, 07:06
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A little break from all the pre-WW I Pale Ale stuff. Unfortunately, it just means a return to WW II Holland. Still, that's what this blog's all about. It started as a chronicle of my research. With a few detours into travel and family, that's what it's mostly remained. This is the material I'm currently working with. And it does tend to fill up the few empty spaces in my head (between all the craziness. I would tell you my dreams, except I fear you'd think less of me. Public transport features heavily. Especially missing and taking wrong versions of it.)
If you expected this to be material I was working on for my book "Blitzkrieg!", you'd be mistaken. I've processed the hell out of Heineken's records for that. This is for another project. The YouTube series I'm doing with Peter Symons, Currently looking at Heineken in ridiculous detail.
We've already discussed their interwar beers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLbeshhj1JQ&t=352s). Next will be the post-war period. With a quick mention of the disaster that was WW II. Which is where these tables come in. Documenting the descent into piss of their beers.
Enjoy.



Heineken Beers in WW II gravity



Dec 1939
Nov 1940
Jan 1941
Jul 1941
Sep1941
Jun 1942
Jan 1943


Style
OG Plato
OG Plato
OG Plato
OG Plato
OG Plato
OG Plato
OG Plato


Licht Lagerbier
8.96
7.38
6.20
6.44
5.30
3.80
3.80


Donker Lagerbier
8.91
7.38
6.20
6.44
5.30
3.80
3.80


Pils
11.91
9.85
8.74
8.30
7.30
7.40
7.40


Münchener
12.59
7.37
9.84
8.46
7.30
7.40
3.80


Bok
17.14
17.20







Sources:


Heineken brewing records held at the Amsterdamse Stadsarchief, document numbers 834 - 1759 and 834 - 1760.






Heineken Beers in WW II ABV



Dec 1939
Nov 1940
Jan 1941
Jul 1941
Sep1941
Jun 1942
Jan 1943


Style
ABV
ABV
ABV
ABV
ABV
ABV
ABV


Licht Lagerbier
3.50
2.88
2.40
2.40
2.00
1.40
1.40


Donker Lagerbier
3.50
2.88
2.40
2.40
2.00
1.40
1.40


Pils
4.70
3.88
3.43
3.20
2.80
2.80
2.80


Münchener
5.00
2.88
3.89
3.20
2.80
2.80
1.40


Bok
7.00
7.00







Sources:


Heineken brewing records held at the Amsterdamse Stadsarchief, document numbers 834 - 1759 and 834 - 1760.


Only very small quantities of the nearly-intoxicating Pils were brewed. Mostly snaffled by the Wehrmacht.







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