Dirck Dicx

Dirck Dicx (1603 – after 1650), was a Dutch Golden Age brewer in Haarlem who moved to Brazil.

Dirck Dicx, detail of schutterstuk by Frans Hals in 1639

Biography

He was born in Haarlem as the son of the mayor by the same name who operated the brewery called Het Scheepje, Haarlem.[1] He became the brewer of the Halve Maen in Haarlem and served in the local militia from 1626 onwards. His portrait as flag bearer of the blue brigade of the St. George militia was painted twice by Frans Hals, first in his The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627, and the second time in his The Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1639. Since it was the custom for bachelors to be flag bearers, it is presumed that he never married, as he moved to the city of Recife - Brazil in 1640. There, he brewed the very first beer of the Americas, working for Johann Mauritius van Nassau-Siegen - Governor of the Dutch Territories in Brazil. Nothing more is known of him after 1650, when he was noted as still being out of the country.

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References
  1. Dirck Dicx in the Jaarboek Haerlem 1961, pp. 53-74 on website of the North Holland Archives



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