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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 16.500 tasted beers are scanned and online.
    Just click on the name of the beer to see the label.

    At the right you see the 5000th and 10.000th beer label in my collection of beers I tasted. The 5000th beer was from the Groningse Stadsbrouwerij.
    The 10.000th labels in my collection was a beer speacially brewed by the Berghoeve Brewery.


  • 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 31-03-2026

    16.777 different labels from taste beers from 121 countries.
    59 new labels from new tasted beers.

    8 new labels from 16 dutch breweries new in my collection.
    6 New dutch breweries at the online map with Dutch breweries.

  • Other info

    Above the label of Schone Zus'.'It is one of the latest beers from brewery Allema in Zwolle. Allema was original located in my hometown Groningen. Therefore it has his own page at my website about the beerhistory in Groningen.
    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 >>>