BEER MATS

British Beermat Collectors Society.

English collector Chris Walsh saw fit to establish the British Beermat Collectors Society in 1960. Distinguished societies of this period naturally necessitate presidents and of all people to crop up in the timeline of this obscure little hobby, guess who the first presidents of the British Beermat Collectors Society were? Legendary comedy duo Eric MORECAMBE & Ernie WISE.

In 1963 Eric & Ernie were interviewed about their new appointment by the Dublin Evening Press. Whilst they were keen to emphasise that initially their involvement was a bit of a joke they admitted that after being briefly immersed in the 'tegestive' world they, "genuinely began to take an interest in it," even keeping their not-to-be-sneezed-at 1000-mat-strong personal collections in self-dubbed 'tegestoriums' in their homes.

BeerMatMania.

Founded in late 2004 they have grown from strength to strength to become one of the most popular web sites in the field of tegestology or beermat collecting (Tegestology is a Latin term defined as the practice of collecting beermats or coasters, with practitioners known as tegestologists) and has a fully interactive galleries of worldwide beermats of over 80,000 images.

Labology.

2018 marks the 60th anniversary of the Labologists Society, having been founded in 1958, making it one of the oldest beer-related collecting societies in the world.

Beer History Society.

The Society was founded in 1972 to promote research into all aspects of the brewing industry, to encourage the interchange of information about breweries and brewing, and to collect photographic and other archive information about brewery history.