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  • My name is Harry Pinkster (1960). 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 seventy-two special beer albums I've got.
    There is one restriction; I always have to drink the beer myself. Sometimes I get an empty bottle or just the labels. In that case the beer does not become a part of my collection.

  • Nearly all the beer labels off the over 17.000 tasted beers are scanned and online.
    Just choose a country or brewery in the left menu (Labelcollection or Dutch breweries) and click on the name of the beer to see the label.

    Above an image of the 10.000th beer label in my collection of beers I tasted. The Tsjuster, a black IPA, was brewed by the Berghoeve Brewery to celebrate this special moment.


  • I 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 about 900 breweries in the Netherlands (including the contract breweries) these days, and just a few of them are in the northern part.

    Did you know that there are over 6000 Dutch beers in my collection? If you want to see a part of it just use the button "Beerlabel collection" in the menu at the left..

  • Update 30-09-2026

    17.010 different labels from taste beers from 121 countries.
    101 new labels from new tasted beers.

    10 new labels from dutch breweries new in my collection.
    6 New dutch breweries at the online map with Dutch breweries.

  • Other info

    Aboveone of the latest labels in my collection; 'Planet of Mosaic', by brewery De Meteoor from Vriezenveen (NL). The beer was send to my by the brewer together with a lot of labels to share with other collectors.
    My collection / website is mentioned a lot in press publications.

  • Dutch Beermap

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

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