Brouwerij ’t IJ was founded by Kaspar Peterson in a squatted building beside the river IJ in 1983.

Before he mastered to brew beer in Belgium, Kaspar had written some Dutch hitrecords: ‘Je loog tegen mij’ and ‘Hé Amsterdam’.

In 1985, he moved the brewery to “Funen”, an empty building that had once been a public bathhouse. It’s still there today.

All Brouwerij ’t IJ’s beer is brewed at Funenkade 7 - all 300,000 litres of it.

The Natte, Zatte, Columbus and Struis are 100% organic.
A lot of beer never makes it out of the brewery, because it is sold in our pub. What does leave the brewery finds its way to health food shops all over the Netherlands, off licence chains such as Gall&Gall and Mitra, or cafés, mainly in Amsterdam (see: ‘links’).

All the brewery’s beers are top fermented and brewed with traditional craftsmanship.