What changed from v1 and v2
This is the third version of the same two weeks. v1 ran the Belgian leg into the Czech one in a single 800-kilometre day; v2 added a night in Cologne, which split the drive but put a city between two better ones. v3 keeps the Belgian nights and splits the long day at Würzburg instead.
Würzburg is the right split because it is on the way and because the town is worth an evening: the Residenz, the old bridge with its wine drinkers, and Bürgerspital and Juliusspital making wine in a city that also brews beer.
The Franconian block is unchanged and deliberately so: two nights in Bamberg, the Schlenkerla–Spezial–Mahr's–Fässla walk, the drive out to Wagner in Merkendorf and Drei Kronen in Memmelsdorf, and one night at Maxlrain's castle brewery on the way south.
The numbers behind it
Every leg is routed rather than estimated: 2,305.6 km of driving over eleven legs, 26 h 53 behind the wheel, plus four brewery-crawl days that use no car at all — three of them in cities where the beer is within walking distance.
The single longest day is Bruges to Würzburg at just over five hours; the shortest is Bamberg to Sokolov. Nothing on the plan is a driving day disguised as a brewery day.
Fourteen nights, ten beds: that is more moving than 2024 and less than 2020, and the bets are that Bruges and Bamberg carry the two-night stays while the one-night stops are placed where the driving needs them.