Beiersch Bierbrouwerij "De Amstel" Amsterdam

Original title: Beiersch Bierbrouwerij "De Amstel" Amsterdam
Original title: Beiersch Bierbrouwerij "De Amstel" Amsterdam
Alternative title: Bierbrouwerij de Amstel
Alternative title: Bierbrouwerij in vogelvlucht, De

Film about the brewing of Amstel in the Amstel brewery in Amsterdam.
Short version
Aerial and ground shots of the brewery - barley in the harbor of the brewery (this shot begins earlier in the short version, one more ship in the shot that in the longer version) - (without an intertitle we go straight to) the barley is sucked out of the ship (intertitle) into the barley attics (shorter scene) - two train wagons full of barley are soaked in water each day - air is added to hasten the process of germination (shorter scene) - MALTERY: every germination drum contains 15000 kg. of barley. The drums are slowly revolving while moist air is pressed through to start the process of malting (shorter scene) - the malt master checks if the malt is in the right germination phase - germinated barley - the green malt is transported to a different drum where hot air is pressed through to dry it and slightly toast/grill it. In the process, the germs fall off - BREW HOUSE: brew kettles (different it and shorter) - hops are added to the boiling wort (shorter scene) - the wort is guided through a machine that has ice water on the other side so the temperature cools down to 6 C. (shorter scene) - Because of the yeast process, beer is created (slightly different it.) - a modern basement with tanks made of enameld iron that contain 50.000 liters of beer per tank (no end of reel title) - empty barrels are delivered back to the brewery - they are cleaned on the inside and out in a machine - the barrels are hooked up to the beer tanks and filled up. 24 tank stations in operation at the same time - a great number of trucks (shorter) and ships (shorter) pull up to tranport the beer (consumption for one day) to all parts of the country - BOTTLING ROOM, specifically for export beer. 5000 bottles are cleaned per hour - filling machine - corking machine - the bottles are transported to pasteurizing cabinets and pasteurized to achieve preservability to export the beer to the tropics - label machine (shorter) - silver foil machine (neck labels) - people put straw caps on the bottles - they're put in wooden crates - the crates are wheeled onto ships - the bottles with labels - The bottle line expands over a globe.
Einde
Long version
Aerial and ground shots of the brewery - barley in the harbor of the brewery - checking of the quality of the barley by a lab technician - check of size of barley - brewing barley is established, under the watchfull eye of the ship's dog Kees - the barley is sucked out of the ship into the barley attics - the lab workers keep checking all the steps of the process - yeast research with telescopes under germination of brew yeast (animation) - wild yeast and bacteria pose a threat to the brewing proces (animation) - testing of the power of germination of the barley in the lab - sorting of the grains by size, only the best quality is used for the brewing process - two train wagons full of barley are soaked in water each day - air is added to hasten the process of germination - MALTERY: every germination drum contains 15000 kg. of barley. The drums are slowly revolving while moist air is pressed through to start the process of malting - green malt comes out and the malt master checks if the malt is in the right germination phase - the green malt is tranported to a different drum where hot air is pressed through to dry it and slightly toast/grill it. In the process, the germs fall of - different beers desire different variety of malts so the temperature is constanty checked - after this process, with temperatures going up to 110 C/230 F, the malt is ready - the malt is grinded in a mill and a lab technician takes samples to check the quality - BREW HOUSE: brew kettles - hops are added to the boiling wort - the wort is guided through a machine that has ice water on the other side so the temperature cools down to 6 C. - the wort goes into a yeast barrel. Because of the yeast process, beer is created - in the yeast process, heat is generated which endangers the beer. So underneath the barrels are tubes where ice water is pumped through to control the temperature. The lab checks this too - in the yeast process, foam is created as are alcohol and carbon dioxide - the yeast falls to the bottom of the barrels after the yeast process is finished - in oak wooden barrels the beer is still yeasting and then settles. The chief of the lab then concludes that the beer is ready for consumption - a modern basement with tanks made of enameld iron that contain 50.000 liters of beer per tank - empty barrels are delivered back to the brewery, repeared where necessary and injected with boiling tar - they are cleaned on the inside and out in a machine and then checked again for damage and corks left behind - the barrels are hooked up to the beer tanks and filled up. 24 tank stations in operation at the same time - a great number of trucks and ships pull up to tranport the beer (consumption for one day) to all parts of the country - BOTTLING ROOM, specifically for export beer. 5000 bottles are cleaned per hour - filling machine - corking machine - the bottles are transported to pasteurizing cabinets and pasteurized to achieve preservabiity to export the beer to the tropics - label machine - silver foil machine (neck labels) - people put straw caps on the bottles - they're put in wooden crates - the crates are wheeled onto ships - the bottles with labels - commercial with animation of a moving line of Amstel bottles with in the background an outline of the brewery. The bottle line expands over a globe. "In de heele wereld drinkt men Amstel-bier!"
Einde
The animation sequence at the end, with the bottle line expanding over the world, is believed to be from George Debels (info Mette Peters, NIAf, 2012)

Director, Otto van Neijenhoff, gestorven 1978

Production company, IWA Industrie, Wetenschap, Actualiteit, opgericht 1928

Production company, VNF Vereeniging Nederlandsch Fabrikaat

Director of Photography, Otto van Neijenhoff, gestorven 1978

Animation, George Debels, 1890-1973

Production country: Netherlands

DefaultType 2 versions: long (42 min) Dutch or French intertitles and short (18 min) Dutch intertiltles defaultUnit

Marie Baarspul, It could only be Heineken, 100 voorwerpen en verhalen, Zwolle, (2020), (pp.80-81), 35

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Bedrijfsfilm - Industrial