Eh? Balderdash. I thought they tasted completely different. Three of we beer snobs tried the bottles side-by-side and agreed. My NL roomie made a point of showing us after trying the stuff I'd been buying.
If nothing else the alcohol content is/was double our own. Tough to get the taste the same with the alcohol conent that far apart.
Oh, the NL bottles were much larger but I'm not allowing that to color my taste. 
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