Brouwerij ’t IJ has brewed beside Amsterdam’s De Gooyer windmill since 1985, in the former Funen municipal bathhouse. Its story links the city’s public-health history with a pioneering craft brewery and a neighborhood tasting room shaped by local regulars.
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Brouwerij ’t IJ opened in 1985 in the former Funen municipal bathhouse, Amsterdam’s first municipally built public bathhouse, opened in 1911.
Founder Kaspar Peterson named the brewery after the IJ; its first beer was Zatte Tripel.
The tasting room began informally about a year after the brewery opened; De Gooyer windmill beside it is a separate site, not part of the brewery.
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The tall wooden sails beside Brouwerij ’t IJ belong to De Gooyer, a historic grain mill; the brick building beside it has a different working past. At Funenkade 7, a municipal bathhouse became a brewery, and its conversion joined two eras of Amsterdam’s everyday industry in one small corner of the city.
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