Exclusive Report: Kids Drinking in Holland

By Friday June 26, 2009

Servoy CEO Jan Aleman was showing me around Holland and lectured me about kids in Holland and how much they drink. The lecture is above. The pic below is the supposed proof. I guess all the bicycling keeps off the beer gut.

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26 Comments
  1. Special Ed says:
    6/26/2009 at 8:08 am

    i had to quit drinking beer, I gave blood and it had a head on it.

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  2. Thomas says:
    6/26/2009 at 8:18 am

    There is definitely some good beer to be found in Holland but Heineken and Amstel are not it. Heineken is Dutch for Budweiser. When next in Amsterdam, try a place called Cafe Golem. Hundreds of real beers from around Europe.

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  3. Bubba Ray says:
    6/26/2009 at 8:19 am

    “24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.”

    Paul Newman

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  4. Thomas says:
    6/26/2009 at 8:20 am

    http://www.cafegollem.nl/default_EN.asp

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  5. SparkyOne says:
    6/26/2009 at 8:25 am

    The kids in Holland are not smart enough to smoke pot instead of damaging themselves and society with booze. Sounds like Holland has a new drug problem

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  6. brendal says:
    6/26/2009 at 8:41 am

    Now that is what I’d call corporate PR!!

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  7. John C Dvorak says:
    6/26/2009 at 9:25 am

    This post was not about what beer to drink!

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  8. George says:
    6/26/2009 at 9:25 am

    America is so much better. Our children have to break the law, or get others to break the law to have the beer they’re going to get anyway.

    Doesn’t Holland know the fantastic rush you get when you have the crushing fist of the police state monitor your every action? Please, I don’t want personal responsibility! I want to be watched and controlled!

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  9. mattarse says:
    6/26/2009 at 9:29 am

    I’m sorry John but I call BS on this – maybe you have the occasional teenager doing it but hell that’s true everywhere.

    hell here in Czech Republic we have the same crates but if you pay attention at the checkout most people are buying many fewer.

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  10. Patrick says:
    6/26/2009 at 9:36 am

    # 2 Thomas said, “There is definitely some good beer to be found in Holland but Heineken and Amstel are not it. ”

    Umm, he was lifting a case of Grolsch. Not that it matters…

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  11. brendal says:
    6/26/2009 at 10:02 am

    Yes – this post is about a FANTASTIC company called Servoy! http://www.servoy.com

    HAR! ;)

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  12. McCullough says:
    6/26/2009 at 10:24 am

    Interesting that they don’t keep the beer ice friggin’ cold. I love my beer heavy and at room temp, got used to drinking it that way haven’t looked back since. Here, the beer that is so cold you can’t even taste it.

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  13. Skippy says:
    6/26/2009 at 10:37 am

    I was in Bayeux, France, and watched a boy of about 14 go through the till of a supermarket with a 6 pack. He gave the cashier a 2 Euro coin and got change back! I went into the back of the store to see how much the six pack was, and it was 1 Euro 65. Can’t remember the name of the beer, though.

    I know where my next vacation is going to be.

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  14. Mark says:
    6/26/2009 at 10:57 am

    Best quote comes at the very end by John: “Brother…”. You’re great John. Keep it coming.

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  15. Jägermeister says:
    6/26/2009 at 10:59 am

    Perhaps the perfect match for Dutch guys is Russian girls?

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  16. MrMiGu says:
    6/26/2009 at 12:13 pm

    #12,
    Thats because you dont really want to be able to taste a lot of beers, especially those that are mass produced

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  17. Johan says:
    6/26/2009 at 12:14 pm

    Well kids drink a lot in Denmark too, and that’s supposed to be the happiest people on earth. Coincidence? I think not!

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  18. joaoPT says:
    6/26/2009 at 12:21 pm

    #10

    He was lifting heinekens, IN FRONT of a stack of Grolshes… pay attention dude. (not that it matters…)

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  19. hazza says:
    6/26/2009 at 3:49 pm

    My kids are only 9 and 12, they drink alcohol, so what? It’s not like they get drunk, geez.

    America seems to have this assumption about linking drinking age and alcoholism…. bzzzztt… go back and get some proof.

    There are many countries that have no age limit on drinking, start drinking at a much younger age and have less of a problem with alcoholism than the USA.

    Stupid idiots think that the ONLY factor is how young they start drinking.

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  20. faxon says:
    6/26/2009 at 8:18 pm

    When I was a kid, my dad had a can of Burgie every night. It got passed around the two kids. Age about 9 or 10. Now, I drink beer sometimes, and other times I realize I have not had a beer for days. So alcoholism is NOT related to the age at which you taste beer.

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