Bols , the leading Dutch spirits company, is known for its genevers and for its wide range of liqueurs. Based in Amsterdam, it can trace its documented history there at least back to 1640, when Pieter Jacobz Bulsius was registered as arriving in the city. He was the son of a family named Bulsius, Bultius, or Bulsies who had fled political unrest in their home in what was then the Netherlands region of northern Flanders (modern-day Belgium) to resettle near Cologne, Germany. (The Bols firm publicize the date “1575” and “Lucas Bols,” but the only known evidence from 1575 is a request to the Cologne Protestant synod by a local congregation of Belgian refugees, which probably included a widow named Bulsius/Bultius/Bulsies, to clarify if brewing and distilling from grain was allowed by religious law.)
See also genever.
Bols heritage research findings by the Fluitschip historical research bureau, www.fluitschip.nl (accessed April 16, 2021).
Bols Prospectus for IPO, February 2015. http://www.lucasbols.com/investors/ipo (accessed April 16, 2021).
By: Philip Duff