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Your BEST source for Beer Mats in the UK!
About us and our Beer Mats
We design and print our Beer Mats at our print shop - Hot Metal Press Ltd - in Elsecar near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and have been doing so since 1991.
We've created hundreds of thousands of Beer Mats in that time, from the sublime to the ridiculous! and we'll be happy to make sure that your beer stands out from the crowd.
We have two standard types of Beer Mat, 94mm round, or 94mm square with rounded corners, but we can also do other shapes!
We also offer, hearts, hexagons, rugby balls and a smaller round (75mm) mat.
Printed in full colour on a 1.2mm thick super absorbent REAL WOOD pulp board. (Sourced from FSC Certified Scandinavian forests)
Our Beer Mat board is extremely absorbent and can be soaked and dried numerous times without losing its shape or bleeding colours. These are real beer mats the way they've been made for decades.
Converting a printing press to reliably accept the thick and absorbent beer mat board is a time consuming and costly affair, which is why most traditional printing companies simply won't go there.
Furthermore, many of the other sellers out there don't actually print on real Beer Mat board. You could get anything from bog-standard cardboard to two sheets of printed paper glued to a board in the middle.
We use vegetable based process inks, as opposed to the standard oil based inks. Our vegetable based inks are biodegradable and offer the same outstanding print quality and colour reproduction as any traditional oil based ink.
Not all beer mats are created equal!
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Beer Mat History
The first coasters were designed for decanters or wine bottles, so that they could be slid (or "coasted") around the dinner table after the servants had retired. They were in common use after about 1760. Early coasters took the form of a shallow tray or dish made of wood, papier-mâché, silver or silver plate.
In 1880, the first beermats made of cardboard were introduced by the German printing company, Friedrich Horn. In 1892, Robert Sputh of Dresden manufactured the first beermat made of wood pulp. Watney brewery introduced them to the United Kingdom in 1920 to advertise their pale ale. The packaging company Quarmby Promotions, established in 1872, began manufacturing beermats in Milnsbridge in 1931. After Quarmby Promotions was taken over by the Katz Group, it moved production to Brighouse and in 2006 to Morley, West Yorkshire, before closing its production in 2009.
Beer Mat Prices
You can get a 1000 double sided 94mm square or round Beer Mats for £147.00 + VAT, give us a shout for more options, like hot metal foiling for the ultra-lux!.
For more prices and options please visit our shop and ORDER YOUR BEER MATS!
Contact us
You are welcome to email us or give us a call on 01226 740498.
Our office hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
And our address is:
Hot Metal Press Ltd.
Elsecar Heritage Centre
Wath Road
Elsecar
S74 8HJ