🍺 Raising the Bar #3 — Go Weast 🚋

Amsterdam Oost · Saturday 22 August 2026 · 11:00 · (meeting point shared after payment)

We're starting in the east and walking west. Cue the Pet Shop Boys — sort of. 🎶

Forget the canal ring. We're heading into the post-industrial, unpolished, genuinely local Amsterdam that most visitors never see. Eight stops, one long day, and some of the best beer in the city. 🍻

For this chapter of Raising the Bar, I've built a route through Amsterdam Oost — an area that was docks, factories and working-class housing not so long ago, and that now hides some of the most interesting drinking in town. No tourist traps, no chains, no places you'll find on the front page of a guidebook.

***##### 🍺 The crawl

Eight stops, running in a straight lineeast to west— no doubling back, no wasted steps, roughly 7 km over the course of the day. 😏 I'm keeping the venues a surprise (half the fun is not knowing where we're headed next), but here's the shape of it:
We'll start withlunch in a resurrected historic brewery, then find ahidden bar with no signage inside a park(you'd never find it on your own — that's rather the point 🤫). From there we work our way back toward the centre: a tiny, fiercely local corner bar, abrewery beneath a windmill, a canal-side terrace, and finally a pair of centuries-oldbrown caféswhere the sailors used to drink. 🌙

Along the way: excellent Dutch craft, proper old-school institutions, and a lot of good conversation.🍽️ Optional dinner:for anyone still standing at the end, we'll finish with anoptional Indonesian dinnernearby (around 20:45). Join if you fancy it — and if you'd rather call it a night, the final stop is only ten minutes from Centraal Station. 👍***

💶 How it works — please read carefully!

Places are strictly limited to 12 people — some of the stops are genuinely tiny and simply can't take more of us. So here's the process:

1. Click "Attending" (RSVP) here on Meetu