From business cards to pick up info, the iconic Australian pub accessory has had many uses and is part of an exhibition in Kyneton in central Victoria . Back in the 1970s the iconic beer coaster was ...

It’s a crisp November morning in Germany’s Black Forest, and I’m standing beside a pile of lumber as big as a house in the loading area of the world’s largest beer coaster factory. The factory, in the ...

The curved rim on a Frisbee acts as an airfoil, which generates lift almost like an airplane wing. For beer mats, however, gravity takes hold soon after becoming airborne, greatly affecting its lift ...

For most of us, beer coasters are just an insignificant piece of cardboard tucked under our glass of ale. But some have elevated the disposable coaster, which is a common sight in pubs in Europe and ...

The Coaster Show, an exhibition of more than 1,000 art pieces that began life as beer coasters, returns to the La Luz de Jesus Gallery during L.A. Beer Week, and you can get a jump on the celebration ...

Many a pub crawler has engaged in the time-honored tradition of throwing beer mats—those round cardboard coasters that are ubiquitous in bars—as if the mats were frisbees, often competing to see who ...

It’s a little too easy to create a ton of waste while you’re getting wasted. Unless you’re near a store that provides growlers or you invest in a keg, drinking a lot of beer creates a lot of empty ...

Clever marketing is an imperative in industries where competition is high: beer-brewing in the US, for example. According to analysts Nielsen, more than 3,900 new beer products are launched every year ...

Beer company Molson Canadian has released a set of plantable coasters in specially-marked can packs as part of the company’s ‘Red Leaf Project.‘ When planted and watered, the seeded beer mats will ...

It started with white – Tiger White, to be exact, the newly-launched wheat beer variant of from Tiger Beer. Its tagline, “It all starts with white”, which represents the idea that anybody can create ...

The German news site Spiegel Online reports that the world's leading manufacturer of beer coasters has gone bankrupt. The Katz Group, located in southwest Germany, controlled 97 percent of the U.S.