I flew VCE-AMS-HAM today and fluids were not an issue in Itay or Holland (though in VCE they were handing out clear plastic bags for the wallets and other tiny permissables of UK-bound travellers). In AMS I went through baggage claim to the outside terminal area and picked up a few of the ever-burgeoning Belgian beers stocked at the wonderful Food Village grocery (Orval, Hoegaarden Grand Cru, Rochefort 8 & 10, Karmeliet Tripel, to name some). There was virtually no queue for security re-entering the B/C concourse area which went very quickly, and the image of all the bottles in my backpack on the X-ray machine was very pretty indeed.