Daily Archives: August 30, 2009
Glass Curiosities: Dutch beer baron’s unrealized green dream of bottle as building block
Good intentions run deep in the Heineken family. In 1864, when the Dutch brewery’s founder, Gerhard Heineken, worked to convince his wealthy mother to bankroll his brewery start-up, his pitch was that there would be fewer displays of drunken behavior … Continue reading
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