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| Distilling jenever (gin) for 250 years in these buildings |
Friday, April 22, 2022
Schiedam has been the center of Holland's traditional Dutch gin industry for hundreds of years. Jenever, as the Dutch gin is known, was distilled in more than 400 breweries. Now many of the traditional distilleries and warehouses have been converted for homes, stores and other uses.
Henk says you can recognize the original distilleries by their form - always with an off center large main door, and three or more stories of windows. We passed a number of these interesting buildings on our tour through the city.
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| A typical old distillary, with off center large door, now repurposed |
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| Another example of a repurposed gin distillery |
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| Off center door, three stories high.... |
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| A warehouse on the canal, with a church steeple behind |
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| People use the canals for swimming, as you can see by the railing access to the water |
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| Typical Schiedam warehouse architecture |
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| Beautiful canal side house with its blue boat |
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| Mike says thumbs up to a future visit to this Michelin one-star restaurant |
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