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Breweries drive up prices, limit cafe goers choice: bar ownersWednesday 29 August 2012 Hospitality sector organisation Horeca Nederland is asking competition authority NMa to take action against the big beer breweries. The organisation says contracts between brewers and cafe owners leave little room for a healthy market. 'The prices are driven upwards and that is bad for the consumer,' a spokesman told Nos. According to KHN, the current situation means the brewers still have a firm grip on the market. Each year a quarter of cafe owners think about moving to another brewery but only 2.4% actually take the step. Landlords This is because many cafe owners are dependent on a brewery for renting their premises, making them in effect a tied house. A new survey by KHN among cafe owners confirmed that beer is a closed market with no competition, the organisation said. 'Breweries say the market must change, but they cannot or do not want change,' said the spokesman.
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Alcohol and other hard drug dealers are merciless. By Philippe | August 29, 2012 4:39 PM Let's face it! These breweries would go out of business if not for this closed market, primarily because of their substandard product. If Belgian and German beers were more readily available in the Netherlands and sold at their local price (especially the German 500ml bottles the sell for €2), no one would be drinking Dutch beer. The only reason local beers are doing well is because the consumer has no choice. So much for the Single Market! By Bob | August 30, 2012 8:19 AM The breweries should be in competition with each other, not fixing prices. In a proper market the breweries would not be allowed to own property and rent it to pub owners. That is just wrong. An open market means the pub owners can choose any beer they want from any brewer they want. By Dave | August 30, 2012 8:38 AM Its nasty beer anyway, does anyone actually look forward to drinking it? I still have a sense of taste which limits my dutch beer drinking..... By Sammy Nines | August 30, 2012 10:46 AM Those who cannot operate a business independently should leave that business. It should be illegal for breweries to subsidize or even provide free rent for bars. It is decieving not to call a bar "heineken" or "Brand" if that is all they serve. Lets stop this protectionism and monopoly so that those 150 micro breweries have their oportunity too.... By Rob Barsony | August 30, 2012 11:34 AM This is a decision the government should make by changing the current policy if they deem it necessary to make things fair, they are the ones in charge right? By The visitor | August 30, 2012 1:00 PM Could someone please give us some tips on where to drink at reasonable price in The Hague? EVERY bar has the standard price of ~2.50 for a vaasje, which is about half a pint....thus ~5 euros for a pint...which is ridiculous!! Also very few bars with happy hours.... No wonder people are drinking more and more at home and then go out to have 1 - 2 beers and that's it... By Bob | August 30, 2012 1:21 PM It's very sad. There are lots of small breweries in the Netherlands, many of which produce beer every bit as good as your Belgian neighbours. Unfortunately they're hampered by the twin curse of Heineken and Belgium; those few bars that specialise in interesting beers tend to be dominated by Belgian brands. Whenever I visit your country from England, I always seek out the small number of bars that stock a good range of Dutch beers; such as "De Paas" in Den Haag, "de Pintelier" in Groningen or the utterly wonderful "In de Wildeman" in Amsterdam. By Tony Green | August 30, 2012 3:50 PM
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Absolutely! When in Nijmegen I like to go to Cafe Samson or De Blauwe Hand where beer selection is fantastic compared to the cafes in the village I live in where Grolsch or Brand are the tap beers of choice and Palm or Erdinger is as exotic as it gets. I want to drink beers from smaller independant breweries who have to rely on a good beer instead of heavy advertising.
By @Cluthadubh | August 29, 2012 4:36 PM