Beer Coaster Mania

Welcome to Beer Coaster Mania, your internet source on beer
coaster collecting. This site contains information on where to
find coasters, the very rare and mysterious coasters, breweriana
organizations, free coaster guides, hints for eBAY sellers and
buyers, pricing tips and much more.

Coaster collecting has been a very popular hobby for years.
While not as widespread as other breweriana such as beer cans,
beer labels or beer trays, this hobby has shown a resurgence
that came along with the popularity of microbreweries. More
and more new collectors are joining this hobby every year. New
micro coasters make it very easy for new enthusiasts to be on an
equal trading level with the old time collectors.

Coasters are collected in a variety of ways. You can collect them
by brewery, state, region, country or just collect everything.
There are some people that specialize only in sports related
coasters or those issued during a specific time period such as
WWII or pre-prohibition. Coasters are not limited to breweries,
there are those for restaurants, bars, sporting events, soda,
whiskey, food and there is even one produced for someone's
wedding. No matter what you collect,there is a coaster that
somehow fits your interest

Many coasters have minor variations that make them slightly
different. For example, there is a Rheingold coaster that has
printed on the bottom edge the words 'Brewers for over 115
years'. Every year that this coaster was used, the years went up
until it hit 121 years. Some collectors would ignore this small
difference but most serious collectors would scramble to find all
the different variations. Other common variations to look for
are: the presence or lack of a union label or printers bug,
different color schemes, inverted (up side down) reverses and
different brewery locations

Antique Dealers and novice collectors can use this site for
pricing items and determining the value of coasters