Daniel Goedbloed

From the rooftop to the bottle: Joris Hoebe's Hemelswater beer (“Heaven’s water”) is part of a citywide effort to control flooding in Amsterdam.

When life gives you too much rain, make beer with it

August 22, 2017Culture

Amsterdam has a beer habit. It also has a big flooding problem. Now a local entrepreneur is trying to put the city’s thirst for beer to use in reducing its flood risk.