This tasting bar is located in the basement of the Schreierstoren. At this tower, the VOC crews boarded ‘lichters’, a type of flat-bottomed boat, that brought them to the island of Texel, where the East Indiamen were waiting for a favourable wind in order to set sail in the 17th and 18th century. There’s a captain’s room available for meetings and private parties. The café serves genuine sailors gin, named ‘Egte Zeeduycker Schoot-an’. Legend has it that the tower’s name (weeping tower) was derived from the fact that weeping women bade farewell to their husbands here.