Beer coasters      

Beer coasters or also called beer mats were used in the 19th century for the first time by the poor barflies to prevent from the insect (wealthy beer lovers owned porcelain mugs with a top). The first coasters were made of wooden felt. Instead of this material beer coasters (beer mats) was also made of porcelain (mostly before WW2), glass, cork, plastic and nowadays beer coasters (beer mats) are mostly made of paper.

The very first information about brewing in central Europe is from 1088 AD. Brewing was possible for everybody who had necessary instruments, but just in the few following centuries. This is quite an interesting fact because of the future effort to limit making beer for only specific group of people by laws and privileges.

The first important privilege which...

The web pages are about collection of beer coasters (beer mats) and collecting of the beer stuff in general. For the collectors it is possible to choose coasters which I have for exchange or propose me coasters which you do not find on the web.

Coasters are scanned in two sizes at this time. After click on small picture, which is displayed when you are looking for coasters in some brewery, it is shown a picture in full size (older coasters do not have this large pictures so you will see the small picture again). It is also possible to use search field for viewing coasters (it is placed under the main menu of the web).

A section Collectors contains contact to beer coasters (beer mats) collectors, but also to collectors other beer stuffs.

When you click to link News it will be shown list of coasters which was add to collection recently and also list of new coasters to exchange.

I found on interent map of czech's breweries. You can download it here. I am not sure if it is 100% right.

1) Easier collection expanding because of this presentation.

2) Presentation the collection to maximal number of people.

3) Spread number of friends with similar hobby.

4) Help other collectors to organization of their hobby.

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