Bars in De Baarsjes

Katja Brokke has written a piece (in Dutch only unfortunately) about beer and bars in De Baarsjes, an area in Amsterdam which used to have lots of crime but which is definately going the right way now... She's going to visit all the bars in this area and write a small review about them... Read it on http://www.amsterdamcentraal.nl/
In the mean time I've found another little cafe in De Baarsjes, near Mercatorplein, where you can eat as well, with a terrace outside (facing west, so sun all day), it's called Cafe Cook. I haven't been in yet but it looks very nice. Jupiler: € 1,90.

Small Beer Break

After last week I'm having a small beer break this week. Last week Tuesday I got pissed, drank too much whisky, scotch and beer in a very short period of time while playing poker. Wednesday I went out to Kale where they have on tap:
Amstel € 2,00
Wieckse Witte
Palm and
La Chouffe
And in bottles:
Duvel
Westmalle Tripel
Westmalle Dubbel
Corona
Natte and Zatte... Mmmmm.
Thursday I went back there and then to Montmartre after with Heineken, Heineken Ice on tap, Heineken Longneck, Wieckse Witte and Amstel Mald in a bottle to watch the semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest. Friday.... Kale again, then Bitterzoet (see below), Saarein and Soundgarden. And.....
Saturday I went to the Meibock Festival and then to a friend after to see the Eurovision Song Contest Finals... Pffffffffff, Quite a week....

Drinking beer for charity!

Breda beer, Breda's export product, is for sale until the end of the year. InBev and supermarket Albert Heijn have communicated that Friday. In bBeda and surroundings 16 supermarkets participate to sale. Ten eurocents of every sold can will go to the restoration the large church. Breda beer was sold in the sixties in the Netherlands and still sold abroad. The restoration of the large church has recently entered the last phase. In 2011, the restoration should be finished.

Tax Free Beer in Flanders?

Why oh why don't I live in Belgium. The Flemish hotel restaurant cafe foundation wants to abolish tax on beer to draw destitute cafés in Belgium from the slop. A regulation which many belgians will agree with. The association wants belgians to be able to get a taxrefund on the beers which they've bought in a pub/cafe, because of this, beer drinking in cafés will become more popular then consuming liquid bread at home.

Bitterzoet

Bitterzoet, on the Spuistraat, what a strange but very nice place, upstairs there's a bar, downstairs a big space with a stage and another bar. Live music, DJ's, all different kinds of music and all different kinds of people too... I went there for the "stadsspelen" which are a kind of Olympics in all sorts of categories including quiz and music.
Tap:
Brand €2,10
Heineken Ice
Wieckse Witte
Bottle:
Duvel
Corona
Heineken Export

Brewery List 10th Meibock Festival

De Prael
't Vølen
Bavaria
Brand
Brouwerij 't IJ
De Eem
De Hemel
De Lepelaer
De Snaterende Arend
Drie Horne
Elegant
Gulpener
Hertog Jan
Jopen
Klein Duimpje
Maasland
Molen
Mommeriete
Oijen
Onder de Linden
Servattumus
Slaghmuylder
La Binchoise
Fantome
Kerkom
Proefbrouwerij
De Dolle Brouwers
Hummel
Heller
Jever
Riedenburger
St Sylvestre
Fullers
Anchor

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Joost invites

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Leave a comment and I'll invite you.
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Pubs_v1.0.kmz

I've decided I'm making the 1st KMZ file for Google Earth available.
Definately not finished yet, so it's only version 1.0.
If you want to see what I'm talking about, then get Google earth and download the kmz file: pubs_v1.0.kmz from: http://rapidshare.com/files/30072188/Pubs_v1.0.kmz.html

Cafe de Zon

On the Lindengracht in the Jordaan area in Amsterdam, on one of the first corners on the left is Cafe de Zon. A small cafe with lovely people behind the bar. Typically Amsterdam. This is a place Ill come back to more often. A bonus is that a vaasje of Heineken is only € 1,80. As far as I know this is the only beer they have.

3 new bars

Went to 3 new bars yesterday.
The Shape cafe is quite a nice place in Amsterdam West with a beautiful terrace where you can eat and go to fitness as well. Beer is only € 1,95...
Then to Edel. A new bar on the Postjesweg in an old school. This place also has a terrace (pointing to the east so there's no sun all day long), it's very modern inside has very trippy walls and they've got Grolsch for € 2,20..Very pricy for a local bar. On top of it all the staff was only interested in themselves. The only good thing was the food menu. It looked good (but have heard it's quite crap).
Didn't want to stay in Edel too long cause there's definately NO atmosphere so I went to Cafe Weefers which was accross the road. Now this was a nice quite local real Amsterdam brown cafe with a nice lady behind the bar. Stayed here for a while. Spoke to the barlady for a bit and drank a Heineken for € 2,00.

New Update

Click the Pic for a new update on beerprices in Amsterdam

Brazilian Bavaria

Cheapest Beer?

Last night I went to Kriterion. The beer there on Queensnight? Dommelsch € 1,70!!!
Normally it's only € 1,50!!!!
Holy cow! Didn't know that was still possible...

10th Meibock Festival

The Tenth Meibockfestival Date: 12 mei 2007 Time: 13:00 - 20:00 Where: Brouwerij de Prael, Helicopterstraat 13-15 (1e); 1059 CE Amsterdam Entrance: € 5,00 including € 2,00 for the glass. Drinks (15 cl): € 1,50 or 7 voor € 10,00 35 brewers from everywhere, wanna know which? Click here for a list.

How much money did you loose?

On www.bierverliesmeter.com you can now see how much money Grolsch, Bavaria, Heineken and InBev "stole" from you by making deals about their prices.
I paid 2860 Euro's too much.
That is: 2 widescreen LCD screens or 16 Ipods.

Join in and protest. Don't forget to send the brewers an e-mail on www.bierverliesmeter.com (top of the website).

Queensweekend

This weekend is time for a party! Sunday, Queensnight I'll go to the Westerstraat to check out het Monumentje, Nol and the Blaffende Vis. Monday, Queensday I'm starting off at Soundgarden and will probably and up near The Minds. I'll try and write something about it and maybe I'll write something tomorrow too.. Depending on how I feel.

Bax

Went to Utrecht today, not gonna mention the prices of beers there cuz they are lower then in Amsterdam and have got nothing to do with this website... What I will mention is Cafe Bax on the Ten Kate market. This is a great bar with great service and good (not too expensive) food.
They also got live music and pub quizzes which are very rare in Amsterdam. Bad things? None. Good things? Terrace, service, food, entertainment, Palm, Weihenstephaner, La Chouffe, Zatte and Leeuw (€ 1,90) on tap and Corona, Koninck, Westmalle Tripel, Westmalle Dubbel, Guinness, Zatte, Columbus, Weihenstephaner Dunkel, Weihenstephaner Mald, Biturger Mald and Boon Brewery's Kriek in bottles.... Probably the best place to get nice beers in this area.

Google Earth pubs.kmz file ready soon

Tomorrow, tomorrow...

Tomorrow I've got a day off. Actually I've got Tuesday off as well. And a bonus is that it's gonna be 26 degrees celcius (80 degrees fahrenheit). So it sounds like a nice day to get up early, get fed properly and cycle around town to enjoy the weather and try out some new places I haven't been to yet and see what the prices of beer are (and what else they got). Maybe I'll cycle down to the east of Amsterdam and go by the IJ brewery and have a nice Natte or Zatte on their terrace... I'll see, as long as there's sun and as long as I can sit outside I'm happy. Maybe I'll finally get a sun tan.

Kadinsky vs. Dracula

Went to see the football today Ajax Amsterdam playing Sparta from Rotterdam. Final score was 5-2... Very good match in a very nice little pub near Dam Square in a small alleyway called Kadinsky(where you can also smoke weed, which is a pity cuz I don't like the smell) with nice people and very cold beer They've got Heineken Ice on tap as well as Affligem and regular Heineken. they've got plenty of bottled beers as well. The football was on a big screen which is good. And halfway they had nice music on as well. Just one minor thing... The Heineken is € 2,20. For amounts of different beers Kadinsky is the winner but...
Then we went to Dracula. A Rumanian restaurant on the Hugo de Grootplein. Went there with 2 Rumanian friends. They said most of the food was good. I thought the service was nice and due to a lack of desserts you can go to the Ice Salon next door for beautiful ice cream or nice espresso... Unfortunately they didn't have any Rumanian beers but the Heineken in this place is € 2,00. So the winner is for price of beer is: Restaurant Dracula!!!

Last Night...

Last night I started off in Cafe Kale once again (it's too close to work and too easy to stop off for "a quick one". After to Lesbian Bingo at the Saarein. And finally I went to a pub I hadn't been before... Cafe Mono on the Bilderdijkstraat. Nice little bar, good people, great music!! Heineken €2,00.

I ♥ Geert Wilders

Actually I don't ♥ him but he's got a great idea. His first one cuz the rest of his idea's are crap! Geert Wilders wants Grolsch, Heineken and Bavaria to half the price of lager for the next 3 years because they fucked 2.000.000 beerdrinkers by charging them 200% of the actual price...
I hope the Dutch parliament agrees with him.

Lesbians!!!

Either tomorrow or Saturday I'll go to 1 (or more) lesbian bars to check out prices of half pints of lager. Tomorrow mayby at the lesbian bingo at the Saarein or maybe Saturday at their 20th anniversary party... I'll keep you updated...

Update

Name	Main Beer	Tap	Bottle	Price
Skek				€ 1,60
Eik en Linde	Amstel			€ 1,75
Stereo (B)eat				€ 1,75
Anno 1890	Amstel	2	6	€ 1,80
De Vries	Jupiler			€ 1,80
Soundgarden	Budels	5	15	€ 1,80
Oosterling, Café	Brand	6	10	€ 1,80
Rozebel Eten & Drinken				€ 1,80
Belgique, Café	Brand	8	30	€ 1,85
Club 8				€ 1,90
De Huyschkaemer	Grolsch			€ 1,90
De Sluyswacht, Café				€ 1,90
Lef, Café				€ 1,90
Thuys				€ 1,90
`t Doktortje	Brand	2	8	€ 2,00
Bar Waldorf				€ 2,00
BIHP				€ 2,00
Cuckoosnest	Heineken			€ 2,00
De Engelse Reet / De Pilsener Club	Heineken	9	14	€ 2,00
De Grote Kale, Café	Amstel	4	15	€ 2,00
De II Prinsen	Leeuw	5	10	€ 2,00
De Jonghe Dominus	Heineken			€ 2,00
Five Bells	Grolsch			€ 2,00
Flexbar				€ 2,00
Het Schuim	Brand	6	10	€ 2,00
Hoofdburo	Heineken			€ 2,00
In de Wildeman	Hertog Jan	17	200	€ 2,00
Kale, Café	Amstel	4	10	€ 2,00
Korsakoff	Leeuw	0	1	€ 2,00
Mooy	Heineken			€ 2,00
Oslo				€ 2,00
The Web	Heineken			€ 2,00
Voldaan				€ 2,00
Zink				€ 2,00
Onder de Ooievaar	Brand	4	10	€ 2,10
The Tara	Oranjeboom			€ 2,10
Akhnaton	Grolsch			€ 2,20
Blont & Blond				€ 2,20
Red				€ 2,20
Vertigo	Brand	4	10	€ 2,20
Dan Murphy's	Heineken	5	4	€ 2,30
Sub Terraneo				€ 2,40
XtraCold Amsterdam	Heineken	2	8	€ 2,50
Luxembourg	Dommelsch	6	13	€ 2,60
Belgica	Jupiler	9	16	€ 2,75
Herrie				€ 2,75
Il Mundo	Grolsch			€ 2,80
Tokyo Cafe				€ 2,80
Wagamama	Heineken	1	3	€ 3,25
Wines & Bites				€ 3,25
Vyne				€ 3,50
Name	Main Beer	Tap	Bottle	Price

Tour de Geuze Cancelled

Unfortunately no Tour de Geuze for me this year. Sarah has been offered a great course in Oxford so we'll be giving Belgium a miss... Fair enough isn't it?

Cheap Beer?

The European Commission has fined Heineken EUR 219 million for prohibited price-fixing agreements with other brewers. The Commission has imposed fines totalling almost EUR 274 million. Grolsch will have to pay EUR 31.65 million and Bavaria EUR 22.85 million. Belgian brewer InBev is being waived a fine of EUR 84 million because the company provided "important information" about the cartel, the Commission says.
One of the Dutch associations involved with café's also got plans to sew these breweries and have already asked the pubs and café's to lower their beer prices immediately :P

De Kolk

We stayed at the Jonghe Dominus yesterday, but I went for a walk around the Nieuwezijds Kolk to see what the deal is with the prices on a little square in the heart of Amsterdam.
De Jonge Dominus has Heineken on tap for €2,00. Its a nice little cafe with 2 floors and a terrace. Something else quite nice is their Wieckse Rosé. Also from tap this is a lager with cherry juice in in (at least that's what it tastes like).
Next to De Jonghe Dominus is a new complex with a big fitnessclub, and a hotel. Below the hotel is a restaurant/bar : Five Bells.... They have Grolsch for €2,00 and it doesn't look like a place you'd hang out for a long time. Akhnaton is a place you can dance (I think). I didn't go in but the guy at the door told me Grolsch is €2.20. In "In de Wildeman" they have 100's of bottled beers and quite a few different ones on tap. Great place if you are a beer lover. Hertog Jan (their main beer) goes for €2,00 too... Mooy (opposite in de Wildeman) has Heineken for €2,00 but no one was inside when I got there.....
Then there are 2 more places where you can get beer. Places where men come together and have sex with each other (so I've heard). The Cuckoosnest and the Web.... I popped in just to ask the leatherguy behind the bar how much beer was and then left.... (Heineken, €2.00)
In the afternoon Sarah went to the Tokyo cafe on the spui and would have had to pay €2,80 for a beer.... Does this mean the Spui is a lot more expensive then the Kolk? We'll see....

New Set of Pubs

Going out this afternoon to the the Nieuwezijds Kolk. It's a little square with a bunch of cafe's on it. Akhnaton, De Jonge Dominus, In De Wildeman are just a couple of them and I'm convinced all the prices over there are different.... We'll see... I'll give you a new update tomorrow. De Nieuwezijds Kolk is probably not the only place I'm going so the update could be quite big.

Google Pub Map

There's a Google Pub Map now

InBev

InBev, the worlds biggest brewer has decided to raise the price of beer in Belgian supermarkets twice this year. At the same time the price of beer in Belgian bars is gonna stay the same. In the end beer in bars will be cheaper then beer in supermarkets. They're also going to give away free beer to students cuz students (obviously) are the future.... Maybe I should move?!
Why are they doing this? Cuz only 3 out of 10 people go to a bar on a regular basis... Typical...
Ge maakt wat mee in een Jupiler Cafe

Kale, De Buurvrouw & Soundgarden

I went out last night and got totally rat arsed...
First to Cafe Kale (Amstel, €2.00), then De Huiskamer (Grolsch yuck, €1.90) and finally to Soundgarden (Budels, €1.80)... Soundgarden is definately one of my favourite places to go in Amsterdam. Spoke to the owner of Korsakoff, their beer is €2.00 for a bottle of Leeuw

Heineken T-Shirt, Cap and 20€ Free...

Heineken is looking for 500 people for a new commercial shoot..
Do you want to get a Heineken T-Shirt, Cap and 20€ free and do you have nothing to do while you're in Amsterdam on April 24th then you might as well go
Heineken Website here

Tour de Geuze 2007

Aaaah, 2½ more week and I'm going to Belgium on the Tour de Geuze... It's excellent, pay very little money and being brought to 5 excellent Belgian breweries taste proper gueuze beer, lovely Faro's and excellent kriek. This year we're going to visit: Boon, De Cam, De Troch, Timmermans & Hanssens breweries and staying in Beersel where there are another 2! Oud Beersel and de 3 Fonteinen..... I can't wait.... Mmmmm Tasty!!!

The List So Far

Name	Main Beer	Tapped	Bottled	Price half pint
Skek				€ 1,60
Stereo (B)eat				€ 1,75
Eik en Linde	Amstel			€ 1,75
Oosterling, Café	Brand	6	10	€ 1,80
Rozebel Eten & Drinken				€ 1,80
Belgique, Café	Brand	8	30	€ 1,85
Club 8				€ 1,90
De Sluyswacht, Café				€ 1,90
Thuys				€ 1,90
De Engelse Reet / De Pilsener Club	Heineken	9	14	€ 2,-
Voldaan				€ 2,-
Zink				€ 2,-
De Grote Kale, Café	Amstel	4	15	€ 2,-
De II Prinsen	Leeuw	5	10	€ 2,-
Flexbar				€ 2,-
Oslo				€ 2,-
Kale, Café	Amstel	4	10	€ 2,-
Het Schuim	Brand	6	10	€ 2,-
Hoofdburo	Heineken			€ 2,-
`t Doktortje	Brand	2	8	€ 2,-
BIHP				€ 2,-
Bar Waldorf				€ 2,-
Onder de Ooievaar	Brand	4	10	€ 2,10
The Tara	Oranjeboom			€ 2,10
Red				€ 2,20
Vertigo	Brand	4	10	€ 2,20
Blont & Blond				€ 2,20
Dan Murphy's	Heineken	5	4	€ 2,30
Sub Terraneo				€ 2,40
XtraCold Amsterdam	Heineken	2	8	€ 2,50
Belgica	Jupiler	9	16	€ 2,75
Il Mundo	Grolsch			€ 2,80
Herrie				€ 2,75
Wines & Bites				€ 3,25
Wagamama	Heineken	1	3	€ 3,25
Vyne				€ 3,50

Beer in Amsterdam is expensive...

Last Sunday I wanted to order a beer on Rembrandtsplein in Amsterdam and found out that half a pint of Grolsch (which I don't even like) would cost me €2,80... A beer around the corner from my house only costs €1,60... And seeing that I'm Dutch, I've decided to create a list with beer prices and kinds of beer. Where to and where not to go drink what... If you go somewhere, somewhere what's not on the list, please send me an e-mail with: name of the bar, kind of beer, and the price of half a pint in that particular bar...
Thanks...