Gerard Adriaan Heineken
  
Dutch bottle (left) and export bottle (right)
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| Type | Beer |
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| Manufacturer | Heineken International |
| Country of origin | Netherlands |
| Introduced | 1873 |
| Alcohol by volume | 5.0% |
| Colour | 7 EBC |
| Style | Pale lager |
| Original gravity | 1.044–1.048 |
| IBU scale | 23 |
| Related products |
Heineken Oud Bruin Heineken Premium Light Heineken Tarwebok |
| Website | Heineken.com |
Heineken Lager Beer (Dutch: Heineken Pilsener), or simply Heineken (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛinəkən], high-NEE-kin), is a pale lager beer with 5% alcohol by volume produced by the Dutch brewing company Heineken International. Heineken is well known for its signature green bottle and red star.
On 15 February 1864, Gerard Adriaan Heineken (1841–1893) got his wealthy mother to buy De Hooiberg (The Haystack) brewery in Amsterdam, a popular working-class brand founded in 1592. In 1873 after hiring a Dr. Elion (student of Louis Pasteur) to develop Heineken-A Yeast for Bavarian bottom fermentation, the HBM (Heineken's Bierbrouwerij Maatschappij) was established, and the first Heineken brand beer was brewed. In 1875 Heineken won the Medaille D'Or at the International Maritime Exposition in Paris, then began to be shipped there regularly, after which Heineken sales topped 64,000 hectolitres (1.7 million U.S. gallons), making them the biggest beer exporter to France.
After Prohibition was lifted in 1933, Heineken became the first European beer to be imported to the United States.
In 2013 Heineken joined leading alcohol producers as part of a producers' commitments to reducing harmful drinking.
In Heineken's early years, the beer won four awards:
The two awards that are still mentioned on the label are the Medaille d'Or and Diplome d'Honneurs.
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