Heineken International
Heineken is the brand brewery of the Dutch Heineken group. Gerard Adriaan Heineken bought the Amsterdam brewery De Hooiberg in 1864 and built the company around a bottom-fermented pale lager. The chemist Hartog Elion later isolated the A-yeast that still ferments every Heineken beer. The old brewery on the Stadhouderskade stopped brewing in 1988 and now houses the Heineken Experience. Beer for the Dutch market and for export comes mainly from Zoeterwoude, with further group breweries producing the brand locally in many countries.
Beers by Heineken International
6 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Heineken International brew within a single family — the differences sit in how, not what.
Across these 6 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one. 2 of them come through every single beer.
Compared with 262 other breweries brewing Alcohol-Free Lager, Light Lager and Pale Lager:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Heineken Original
Their beers place in the Top 91% of the catalogue on average, across 4 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Heineken International
Heineken is the brand brewery of the Dutch Heineken group. Gerard Adriaan Heineken bought the Amsterdam brewery De Hooiberg in 1864 and built the company around a bottom-fermented pale lager. The chemist Hartog Elion later isolated the A-yeast that still ferments every Heineken beer. The old brewery on the Stadhouderskade stopped brewing in 1988 and now houses the Heineken Experience. Beer for the Dutch market and for export comes mainly from Zoeterwoude, with further group breweries producing the brand locally in many countries.
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