What is the world record for flipping beer mats?
According to Official Guinness Records, Mat Hand (UK) flipped and caught a pile of 112 beermats on 9 May 2001 at Waterstone’s Bookshop Gallery, Nottingham, UK. It took him over 4 hours and 129 attempts before Matt broke the previous record of 111.
What is collecting beer mats called?
Beer mat collecting is known as tegestology.
What is a Tegestologist?
Someone who collects beer mats or coasters.
What is the difference between a beer mat and a coaster?
Beermats are generally a form of advertising. Coasters are generally decorative.
What is the point of beer mats?
A coaster, drink coaster, beverage coaster, or beermat is an item used to rest drinks upon. Coasters protect the surface of a table or any other surface where the user might place a drink.
Which side of the coaster goes up?
The cork side goes face up (to absorb any water drip) and the plastic goes face down.
Why don t pubs have beer mats?
Sometime in the 1980’s the bureaucrats in Europe deemed beer mats unhealthy and positively unhygienic in a very typically un-British sort of way. They were banned in favour of drip trays and towels on the bar but nothing at all on the tables set for drinking.
Is a beer mat a coaster?
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 can throw one the farthest. But unlike frisbees, beer mats tend to flip in the air and fly with a backspin.
Does the cork on a coaster go up or down?
What goes on the bottom of a coaster?
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Are pubs allowed to use beer mats?
LONDONERS can now use beer mats in pubs to measure if their pints are too short. “Drinkers are entirely within their rights to ask for a full pint of liquid if they wish. “We are reminding people that it is perfectly okay to ask for a top-up whilst stressing that they should continue to drink responsibly.”