A man has built up a collection of more than 900 beer mats, after starting to collect back in the 1980s. Rob Derry, from Uphill, Weston-super-Mare, picked up the hobby, known as tegestology, from his ...

I work at the Dark Star brewery and this year we made some mosaic style beer mats. Each one is part of a puzzle. Much to our surprise, we were awarded the title of beer mat of the year by the British ...

Forget speed-dating and the classifieds column – now you can leave it to your beer mat to make that all-important first move. Beer mats have always provided endless entertainment in the bar and now a ...

Beer mats are close to the hearts of many readers of the Physics arXiv Blog. So the challenge of trying to make beer mats fly will be familiar. As will the problem this causes. Propelling them — ...

(CNN) -- Two German students have created a device that will stop beer lovers having to get out of their seats for a refill. The "smart" beer mat, created by Matthias Hahnen and Robert Doerr from ...

Anyone who has ever failed to throw a beer mat into a hat should take note: physicists have discovered why this task is so difficult. However, their study also suggests how to significantly increase ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beer mats protect tables from unsightly condensation rings. However, they are sometimes also misused as projectiles. Usually with little success: after just a short time, the cardboard coaster leaves ...