The Heineken Experience

I actually didn’t end up going to all that many breweries as I’d originally planned. Somewhere in the >1 month of travel between Dublin and Amsterdam, I decided to go to more art museums and historical sites rather than to more breweries and distilleries. Yeah, I regret it now. In fact, it occurs to me that I actually didn’t visit a single working brewery. All of them had been turned into museums!

Anyway, here are a few photos that I snapped at The Heineken Experience in Amsterdam. Apparently, I went in just the nick of time, though, as it closed soon after my visit for renovations until Summer 2008.

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Some old bike presumably used for deliveries of beer.

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The Heineken Experience includes a recreation of an old Amsterdam street.

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Nope, these vats aren’t used for brewing any more.

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Included in the tour are three beers (which are definitely not full-sized pints) and a gift of some sort. At the time I visited, it was a nifty bottle opener encased in a fake Heineken bottle.

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The World of Heineken, i.e., Here’s a Bunch of Our Ads

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Some crazily pink corridor. I don’t actually remember what was there. By that point, I was getting somewhat bored.

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This is where they brainwash you—I mean, where they allow you to view old Heineken ads.

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