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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An artist that had been booked for a September exhibit at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles canceled at the last minute. As gallery director Matt Kennedy hung up the telephone, in walked one of ...

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 ...

Small, beer-soaked and bedecked with all manner of slogans, the humble beer coaster has long been an essential part of a good pub or bar. But with its leading manufacturer now bankrupt, the cardboard ...

Beer coasters with a valuable message are making the rounds in social media, thanks to a viral tweet. The coasters are a project of the Time to Change project, a UK-based organization dedicated to ...

Consumers in breweries across Wyoming can participate in a bracket-style competition via a QR code found on beer coasters to raise awareness and funds that support wildlife conservation. With the ...

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.