Jenever glass
Dutch national liqueur.
‘On their red faces I saw the imprint of numerous glasses of jenever traced in the form of fine blood vessels. It was for people like this that Calvinism was invented: men with thin lips, piggy eyes and blotchy red cheeks.’
In his classic ‘coming of age’ novel A Flight of Curlews (1978, translated 1986), Maarten ’t Hart deals unwaveringly with his strict Reformed Church background and jenever-drinking fellow-villagers from Maassluis. The real mecca for jenever is Schiedam, however. There were no fewer than 392 jenever distilleries there around 1880. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, jenever consumption fell spectacularly under the influence of socialist and Christian temperance campaigners. Even so, jenever remains the national liqueur and the country’s leading export product. For example, the English drink gin derives from jenever.
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