s a 1980s baby who was introduced to beer in the late 1990s – when Heineken was still the fanciest brand 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 rumors about the Dutch love of beer on faith. That is, until I
