{"id":4526,"date":"2025-10-04T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:14:32","slug":"fun-food-fact-why-amsterdammers-drank-beer-instead-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/fun-food-fact-why-amsterdammers-drank-beer-instead-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Food Fact: why Amsterdammers drank beer instead of water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Amsterdam of old, clean drinking water was scarce. The canals served not only as a navigation route, but also as an open sewer &#8211; making the water unfit for drinking. The solution? Beer. But not the kind we know today. It was often a weak infusion with a low alcohol content, which was safe to drink because it was heated during the brewing process. For many Amsterdammers, therefore, beer was a basic necessity of life.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Amsterdam beer was not exactly known for its quality. The polluted canal water made brewing difficult here. Cities with cleaner water, such as Haarlem and Delft, produced better beer &#8211; which was then brought back to Amsterdam. So beer was not only a thirst-quencher, but also a commodity and a survival strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more about the history of cold beer? Then book our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/culinary_experiences\/historic-beer-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historic beer walk<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0The perfect opportunity to taste special beers with your group and learn more about traditional brewing processes, urban legends and fun facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Amsterdam of old, clean drinking water was scarce. The canals served not only as a navigation route, but also as an open sewer &#8211; making the water unfit for drinking. The solution? Beer. But not the kind we know today. It was often&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-w-eet-jes-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4528,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions\/4528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}