Harry Pinkster Beercollection

Collection of self-tasted beers

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My name is Harry Pinkster (51). 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 8600 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 8685 different labels of tasted beers from 107 countries.
In this laste update from 31-12-2011:
- 80 new labels from 9 countries. New beers >>
- Again a new Dutch breweries added on my website.
Amongst that a new brewery in my hometown Groningen
- Thanks to beerglass collector Peter Tent Albania became the 107th
country in my collection. Albania >>

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At the left the lasest labels from a beer I tasted;
"Rook in de Kachel - from De Gulzige Gans Coevorden (NED)

I added some new material from brewery Barbarossa, a closed brewery in Groningen, and made a new page with old bottles I have from this brewery.
I also added a page with all the coasters from this brewery, closed in the sixties.
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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. More >>>

New on this site is an interactive map with all the active Dutch breweries.

Besides the labels from selftasted beers I collect every item from the (mainly) closed breweries in my hometown Groningen. More >>>.