Links

Enter any combination of words to do with collecting Breweriana and Google will return a gazillion and seven potential web sites for the avid collector to browse through. What I’ve listed here are the sites I use most often or ones that have impressed me immensely. Want to join the list? Then send me your URL and I’ll check it out!

Other Beer Glass Collecting Sites

Chopes Collection - http://www.chopescollection.be – There’s no doubt that this should the first bookmark of any beer collectors IE links. Simply a superb site created by Belgian collector Julien Gurickx who has a massive collector of well over 5000 various beer mugs, boots and pitchers. Unlike me, Julien concentrates on beer mugs, so he has no flutes or goblets in his collection, but the wealth of information on the site is stunning. In 4 languages also – Nice work fella! 

Trappist Beer Net - http://www.trappistbeer.net/ - The superb site of Cyril Pagniez detailing everything you ever wanted to know about Trappist, Monastic and Abbey beers. The site is in English, French and Dutch and also shows most of Cyril's collection of Trappist beer glasses.

Peter Tent's Beer Glass Collection - http://www.bier-tent.nl/ - Peter, from Holland, has another amazing collection of beer glasses, over 5,000 of them. The pictures of his shelves, heaving under the strain are breathtaking.

The Beer Glass House - http://www.bierglazenhuis.com/ - A Dutch site, with again an awesome collection of thousands of glasses. Has a searchable database with many hundreds of pictures of the glasses.

Filip Vromant Belgian Glass Site - http://www.bierglazen.be/ - Belgium beer glass collector Filip Vromant's site. Filip is a collector of Belgian beer glasses.

The Beer Glass Net - http://users.telenet.be/beerglassnet/index.html - Good neat and clean site from beer glass collector Winand Bruninx from Belgium. The collection is mostly based around glasses from Belgium but the site also has links to a forum where visitors can log their interests in particular collectables. 

Breweries Worldwide - http://www.ciuitre.it – Italian site in 5 languages which is an absolute gem of a resource for collectors of Breweriana. Links to specific categories of items, glasses, beer mates, bottles, cans etc, take the visitor to links of URL and E-Mail addresses of other collectors.

Beercollectors of the world unite! - http://users.skynet.be/jan.doumen/BEER/INDEX.HTM - A great resource listing hundreds of collectors of various beer and brewery related items. You can submit yourself to the list and then contact others with similar interests. Unfortunately though doesn't look to have been updated for some time.

Beercollection.net or Jan's Beer Pages - http://home.planet.nl/~jansbeerpages/home.html - A great collecting resource from Jan Meinders, a brewerania collector from Holland. Again this site has an area where collectors can register their particular interests for others to search.

Weizenbierglas-Homepage - http://www.weizenglas-sammler.de/ - Web site showing off the superb Weizenbierglas collection of Michael Spoden who has over 1,700 Weizenbier glasses in his collection.

Odernheim Weizenbier Museum - http://www.weizenbier.biz/ - Another collection of Weizenbier glasses from Robert Göhler. Robert has over 1,700 glasses and calls his site the Odernheim Weizenbier Museum.

1st Weizenbierglas Homepage - http://www.weizenbier-glas.de/ - Yet another Weizenbier glass collection, this time from Johann Peschke who's been collecting beer glasses since 1986 and claims to have the 1st Weizenbier glass collection on the internet.

Altriper Weizenbierglasmuseum - http://www.weizenbierglasmuseum.de/ - Christian Karl is another collector of Weizenbier glasses and has another massive collection.

Hubert's Weizenbierglas collection - http://www.weissbierglaeser.de/ - Hubert Gürtner is another manic collector of Weizenbier glasses and has a massive 2,700+ glasses in his collection.

Beer Glasses Collection by Dejan Gicevski - http://www.beerglassescollection.com/ - Dejan from Macedonia has a great website and a nice growing collection of beer glasses.

Trappistmania - http://www.trappistmania.net - The collection site of Thomas Morel. Thomas collects beer glasses from the 6 Trappist breweries of Belgium and his site has some really beautiful examples.

Ipogios Beer Glasses - http://www.beerglasses.org/ - Ipogios is a beer glass collector from Cyprus with many glasses to trade.

SonVerre - http://www.sonverre.be/ - The website of Sébastien van Mons who is a collector of Belgian beer glasses.

Beer Glasses at MSM Groups - http://groups.msn.com/beerglasses - The MSM Group for Beer Glass Collectors run by Andy McDonald from Italy. There are also photos of Andy's collection of weizen beer glasses, hundreds of them!

Enoch's Beer Glass Collection - http://mysite.verizon.net/reszazii/enochsbeerglasscollection/ - 'Enoch' is a collector of beer glasses, specialising in Wheat Beer glasses and Trappist Glasses.

Copos - http://www.copos.com.pt/ - The website of Tiago from Portugal, a collector of beer glasses and other glasses. Nice friendly chap with whom I've made successful trades

Galopin-Gambrinal - http://www.galopin-gambinal.com - The website of Jean-Marc from Canada featuring a very nice collection of glasses from all over the world. The site is very professionally created and looks great.

Cracked Mug or Naprsla Krigla - http://krigla.page.tl/ - The very imaginatively named web site of Uros from Serbia. He only collects glasses with a volume of 0.4l or above and has an ever growing collection of glasses.

General Beer & Brewery Reference Sites

These are some of the most frequently used sites I find myself on when trying to identify my glasses.

The Directory of UK Real Ale Brewers - http://www.quaffale.org.uk/ - A superb reference listing details of every brewery in the UK that has produced, is producing or will be producing Real Ale.

Beer Me! - http://beerme.com/ - As the site says this is the complete complete source of brewery information with details of over 6 million breweries world wide. A good source of address information.

The German Beer Guide - http://www.germanbeerguide.co.uk - A British site paying homage to great German beer and an invaluable resource to all things connected with German beer.

Beer Mad - http://www.beermad.org.uk/ - A great resource detailing every beer known to have been produced by British Breweries since 1976.

Great British Beer - http://www.greatbritishbeer.co.uk/ - An attractive website detailing many facts and figures about British breweries.

Real Beer, What part of beer don't you understand? - http://www.realbeer.com/ - Want to know anything and everything about beer? Then look no further than Real Beer. The site also boasts great forum boards.

Other Sites

The Mighty Chew Blog - http://themightychew.blogspot.com/ - I work with the guy behind this blog site so you should have some sympathy for me. That said he does have his amusing moments for a streaky lanky bit of twig.