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Curse Peter Symons. He's got another document digitised which is going to cost me weeks of work.It's called ""De Nederlandse Brouwindustrie in Cijfers" ("The Dutch brewing industry in numbers") and is stiffed full of useful numbers, including ones covering the war years. Providing me with so much information, I'm contemplating ripping the section on Dutch brewing oit and making it a separate volume. "Blutzkrieg! Vol, 3", I suppose.
Here's the first bit I've written using the new data.
Compared to the devastating effect of WW I on Belgian brewing – when hundreds of breweries were stripped of their copper by the Germans and never reopened – Holland didn’t fare too badly. Breweries weren’t looted and continued to brew until the raw materials ran out.
Only 16 breweries – all very small – closed during the war years. Compared to 36 in the first nine years of peace. The closure in 1949 if a brewery which was responsible for 5.3% of Dutch beer output has to be van Vollenhoven. It accounted for over half the production capacity lost between 1938 and 1954.
Dutch breweries 1938 - 1954
year
working breweries
closed during the year
cumulative total of closed breweries
production share of closed breweries
cumulative total of closed breweries
1938
99
—
—
—
—
1939
98
1
1
0.0126
0.0126
1940
98
—
1
—
0.0126
1941
95
3
4
0.0490
0.0616
1942
93
2
6
0.0079
0.0695
1943
92
1
7
0.0113
0.0808
1944
87
5
12
0.2811
0.3619
1945
83
4
16
0.8939
1.2558
1946
79
4
20
0.3153
1.5711
1947
76
3
23
0.1511
1.7222
1948
72
4
27
0.2547
1.9769
1949
66
6
33
5.2927
7.2696
1950
60
6
39
0.6670
7.9366
1951
54
6
45
0.8456
8.7822
1952
50
4
49
0.6478
9.4300
1953
47
5
52
0.7659
10.1959
1954
47
—
52
—
10.1959
Source:
De Nederlandse Brouwindustrie in Cijfers, by Dr. H. Hoelen, Centraal Brouwerij Kantoor, 1955, page 15, held at the Amsterdam City Archives.
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Curse Peter Symons. He's got another document digitised which is going to cost me weeks of work.It's called ""De Nederlandse Brouwindustrie in Cijfers" ("The Dutch brewing industry in numbers") and is stiffed full of useful numbers, including ones covering the war years. Providing me with so much information, I'm contemplating ripping the section on Dutch brewing oit and making it a separate volume. "Blutzkrieg! Vol, 3", I suppose.
Here's the first bit I've written using the new data.
Compared to the devastating effect of WW I on Belgian brewing – when hundreds of breweries were stripped of their copper by the Germans and never reopened – Holland didn’t fare too badly. Breweries weren’t looted and continued to brew until the raw materials ran out.
Only 16 breweries – all very small – closed during the war years. Compared to 36 in the first nine years of peace. The closure in 1949 if a brewery which was responsible for 5.3% of Dutch beer output has to be van Vollenhoven. It accounted for over half the production capacity lost between 1938 and 1954.
Dutch breweries 1938 - 1954
year
working breweries
closed during the year
cumulative total of closed breweries
production share of closed breweries
cumulative total of closed breweries
1938
99
—
—
—
—
1939
98
1
1
0.0126
0.0126
1940
98
—
1
—
0.0126
1941
95
3
4
0.0490
0.0616
1942
93
2
6
0.0079
0.0695
1943
92
1
7
0.0113
0.0808
1944
87
5
12
0.2811
0.3619
1945
83
4
16
0.8939
1.2558
1946
79
4
20
0.3153
1.5711
1947
76
3
23
0.1511
1.7222
1948
72
4
27
0.2547
1.9769
1949
66
6
33
5.2927
7.2696
1950
60
6
39
0.6670
7.9366
1951
54
6
45
0.8456
8.7822
1952
50
4
49
0.6478
9.4300
1953
47
5
52
0.7659
10.1959
1954
47
—
52
—
10.1959
Source:
De Nederlandse Brouwindustrie in Cijfers, by Dr. H. Hoelen, Centraal Brouwerij Kantoor, 1955, page 15, held at the Amsterdam City Archives.
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