On this day, the symbolic first stone of the Amstel brewery in Amsterdam was laid. Named after the Amstel river, the first brew was completed on 25th October 1871, and on 9th January 1872, the first beer was delivered to clients. The brewery was officially opened on 15 January 1872. Originally Amstel beers were mostly drunk in Amsterdam, but as early as 1883, Amstel started exporting to Great Britain and to the Dutch East Indies. In 1884, a special export bottling plant was built, where tropical beers for the Dutch East Indies and other overseas markets were pasteurised and packaged in metal kegs. By 1915 the production of Amstel had increased twenty-fold and in 1926, Amstel consisted of a third of the Dutch beer exports. The company was bought out by Heineken International in 1968 who continued, however, to produce beers under the Amstel name.
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