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Yes. Time for even more numbers. No respite quite yet.
Here’s a different breakdown of Dutch beer sales. This time, not by strength category but by other characteristics.
Dark and pale are pretty easy to pin down, as are draught and bottled. Not so sure about bitter and sweet. Pils is obviously the former and Oud Bruin the latter. Not so sure about where Lagerbier fits in. Based on the number, it looks like sweet must include Donker Lagerbier.
The obvious post-war trends were moves from dark to pale, sweet to bitter and draught to bottled. I’m shocked that pre-war dark beers accounted for almost 50% of the Dutch market. I would never have guessed that. Nor that such a high percentage of beer was sold on draught. Even in the UK, where draught was the norm, a higher percentage of beer was sold in bottled form on the 1940s.
It looks like there was a switch from drinking in the pub to drinking at home in the 1950s, something which happened in many European countries.
Dutch beer production by type 1938 - 1954 (hl)
Year
Dark
Pale
Bitter
Sweet
Draught
Bottled
Total
1938
585,328
684,028
685,477
583,879
-
-
1,269,356
1939
660,662
737,449
738,963
659,148
-
-
1,398,111
1946
-
-
-
-
1,438,471
350,935
1,789,406
1947
553,671
1,045,631
-
-
1,042,101
557,201
1,599,302
1948
368,958
940,992
948,747
361,203
768,153
541,797
1,309,950
1949
230,732
776,743
780,475
227,300
574,158
433,627
1,007,785
1950
223,288
845,174
847,605
220,857
606,821
461,641
1,068,462
1951
211,405
871,248
873,595
209,058
608,210
474,443
1,082,653
1952
213,720
910,789
913,422
211,087
597,964
526,545
1,124,509
1953
237,155
1,046,593
1,049,076
234,672
645,166
638,253
1,283,419
1954
235,527
1,175,005
1,177,183
233,349
694,341
716,191
1,410,532
Source:
De Nederlandse Brouwindustrie in Cijfers, by Dr. H. Hoelen, Centraal Brouwerij Kantoor, 1955, held at the Amsterdam City Archives, page 41.
Dutch beer production by type 1938 - 1954 (%)
Year
Dark
Pale
Bitter
Sweet
Draught
Bottled
1938
46.11%
53.89%
54.00%
46.00%
-
-
1939
47.25%
52.75%
52.85%
47.15%
-
-
1946
-
-
-
-
80.39%
19.61%
1947
34.62%
65.38%
-
-
65.16%
34.84%
1948
28.17%
71.83%
72.43%
27.57%
58.64%
41.36%
1949
22.89%
77.07%
77.44%
22.55%
56.97%
43.03%
1950
20.90%
79.10%
79.33%
20.67%
56.79%
43.21%
1951
19.53%
80.47%
80.69%
19.31%
56.18%
43.82%
1952
19.01%
80.99%
81.23%
18.77%
53.18%
46.82%
1953
18.48%
81.55%
81.74%
18.28%
50.27%
49.73%
1954
16.70%
83.30%
83.46%
16.54%
49.23%
50.77%
Source:
De Nederlandse Brouwindustrie in Cijfers, by Dr. H. Hoelen, Centraal Brouwerij Kantoor, 1955, held at the Amsterdam City Archives, page 41.
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Yes. Time for even more numbers. No respite quite yet.
Here’s a different breakdown of Dutch beer sales. This time, not by strength category but by other characteristics.
Dark and pale are pretty easy to pin down, as are draught and bottled. Not so sure about bitter and sweet. Pils is obviously the former and Oud Bruin the latter. Not so sure about where Lagerbier fits in. Based on the number, it looks like sweet must include Donker Lagerbier.
The obvious post-war trends were moves from dark to pale, sweet to bitter and draught to bottled. I’m shocked that pre-war dark beers accounted for almost 50% of the Dutch market. I would never have guessed that. Nor that such a high percentage of beer was sold on draught. Even in the UK, where draught was the norm, a higher percentage of beer was sold in bottled form on the 1940s.
It looks like there was a switch from drinking in the pub to drinking at home in the 1950s, something which happened in many European countries.
Dutch beer production by type 1938 - 1954 (hl)
Year
Dark
Pale
Bitter
Sweet
Draught
Bottled
Total
1938
585,328
684,028
685,477
583,879
-
-
1,269,356
1939
660,662
737,449
738,963
659,148
-
-
1,398,111
1946
-
-
-
-
1,438,471
350,935
1,789,406
1947
553,671
1,045,631
-
-
1,042,101
557,201
1,599,302
1948
368,958
940,992
948,747
361,203
768,153
541,797
1,309,950
1949
230,732
776,743
780,475
227,300
574,158
433,627
1,007,785
1950
223,288
845,174
847,605
220,857
606,821
461,641
1,068,462
1951
211,405
871,248
873,595
209,058
608,210
474,443
1,082,653
1952
213,720
910,789
913,422
211,087
597,964
526,545
1,124,509
1953
237,155
1,046,593
1,049,076
234,672
645,166
638,253
1,283,419
1954
235,527
1,175,005
1,177,183
233,349
694,341
716,191
1,410,532
Source:
De Nederlandse Brouwindustrie in Cijfers, by Dr. H. Hoelen, Centraal Brouwerij Kantoor, 1955, held at the Amsterdam City Archives, page 41.
Dutch beer production by type 1938 - 1954 (%)
Year
Dark
Pale
Bitter
Sweet
Draught
Bottled
1938
46.11%
53.89%
54.00%
46.00%
-
-
1939
47.25%
52.75%
52.85%
47.15%
-
-
1946
-
-
-
-
80.39%
19.61%
1947
34.62%
65.38%
-
-
65.16%
34.84%
1948
28.17%
71.83%
72.43%
27.57%
58.64%
41.36%
1949
22.89%
77.07%
77.44%
22.55%
56.97%
43.03%
1950
20.90%
79.10%
79.33%
20.67%
56.79%
43.21%
1951
19.53%
80.47%
80.69%
19.31%
56.18%
43.82%
1952
19.01%
80.99%
81.23%
18.77%
53.18%
46.82%
1953
18.48%
81.55%
81.74%
18.28%
50.27%
49.73%
1954
16.70%
83.30%
83.46%
16.54%
49.23%
50.77%
Source:
De Nederlandse Brouwindustrie in Cijfers, by Dr. H. Hoelen, Centraal Brouwerij Kantoor, 1955, held at the Amsterdam City Archives, page 41.
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