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 ...

You walk in. Your song is playing (if your song happens to be by Tone Loc or OK Go). The Eagle Rock Manifesto is chilled and ready for a pour. There are coasters everywhere. Typical bar scene, yes?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

A new exhibit at Hollywood’s La Luz de Jesus Gallery, curated by the people behind L.A. Beer Week, showcases more than 400 works that began life as four-inch coasters before dozens of featured artists ...

Like a pitcher, baseball fan and home brewer Ken Finnigan threw himself a change-up six years ago. The California civil engineer abandoned his desire to establish a brewery and, instead, began making ...