s a 1980s baby who was introduced to beer drinking in the late 1990s - when Heineken was still the fanciest beer anyone had heard of one thing has been fully ingrained in my head for the past quarter of a century: the Dutch take their beer very seriously. But having never been to the Netherlands myself - heresy for a writer published in these pages, I know - I always had to take the rumours about the Dutch love of beer on faith. That is, until
