The collecting of beermats & coasters.

For a long time now, I’ve been collecting beermats. I don’t know why. I’m just a collector. I collected baseball & comic cards growing up. I’ve always loved things in sets. I also have huge toy robots and match book collections. Well, my biggest collection is my collection of beer mats (coasters).  I decided one day to start blogging about my coasters and what do you know; I’m not the only one. Turns out I’m a tegestologist; a collector of beermats. This word/habit/hobby even has a latin derivative. I’m not that weird. CRAZY…

I’m happy I’m not alone.

ATTENTION TEGESTOLOGISTS! Please submit your coasters along with what bar/setting you got from it and any details you can remember. I understand if you dont.

Some beermats are collectible items. Tegestology is a Latin term defined as the practice of collecting beermats or coasters, with practitioners known as tegestologists. Collecting beermats is an especially popular hobby in Germany, where beermats are known as Bierdeckel. There is an international collector’s association called IBV in Germany which has been active since 1958.

The British Beermat Collectors Society was founded shortly after wards in 1960 and currently has around 300 members spread across the world. Like the IBV, it organizes regular meetings for collectors and also publishes a monthly newsletter.

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BeermatMania.com was founded in 2004 and boasts a gallery of over 42,000 images of British brewery beer mats based on the British Beermat Collectors Society numbering system. It also has a collectors forum and a monthly newsletter.

Other notable clubs associated with tegestology include two Australian clubs, the South Australian Coaster Collectors Club and New South Wales Coaster Collectors Club. There are many subcategories of tegestologists, including those who are solely interested in porcelain or other specific kinds of beermats.