Harry Pinkster Beercollection

Collection of self-tasted beers

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My name is Harry Pinkster (50). I live in the north of the Netherlands, in the city of Groningen. I collect beer bottles from all over the world since 1983.
I don't keep the empty bottles because of the space it takes, but remove every label from the bottle. The labels go in one of the twenty-seven special beer albums I've got.
There is one restriction; I always have to drink the beer myself. There are friends who give me empty bottles or just labels. In that case the beer does not become a part of my collection. Nearly all the beer labels of the more than 6700 tasted beers are scanned and online.
Just click on the name of the beer to see the label. Below you see the 5000th beer label in my collection of beers I tasted. The beer was from the "Groningse Stadsbrouwerij". In may 2009 I tasted beer number 6000 in my collecion. I live in Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands. Unfortunately, most beers are brewed in the southern part of my country and so most of the beer activities are miles away.
There are over 70 breweries in the Netherlands these days, and only three of them are in the northern part.
Did you know that there are over 1600 Dutch beers in my collection? If you want to see a part of it just use the button "Beerlabel collection" in the menu left.

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Now 7637 different labels of tasted beers from 106 countries.
In this laste update from 22-07-2010:
- 91 new labels from 7 countries.
New beers >>
- Thanks to crowncap collector Siep Glastra Belarus became the 106th
country in my collection. Belarus >>
- Two new Dutch breweries in mijn verzameling.

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In the update from april 2010 I added two new Dutch breweries.
The added breweries are the Florinda brewery from Heerhugowaard and brewery Vat no 13 from Amersfoort. Both are so called brewery tenants.
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There are still a few active dutch breweries where I didn't taste any beer so far. In this update the list became a bit shorter because i tasted two beers from breweries in this list. The wanted breweries are listed on this special site.
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New on this site is an interactive map with all the active Dutch breweries.
Besides the labels from selftested beers collect every item from the (mainly) closed breweries in my hometown Groningen. More >>>.