Wouldn’t it be cool to sport custom printed coasters with your brews? Hell yeah it would!

Where should one get these in the EU though?

Most shops I found are only selling in bulk, targeting bars. You’ll have plethora of options if quantity isn’t an issue. But as merely an occasional homebrewer I’d rather get just around 20, even if the unit price is higher.

In this small scale category the best I found so far were a few sellers on Etsy. (It seems to be a thing for weddings.)

Does anyone have experiences or recommendations of custom coasters in the region?

  • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Now that I looked in to it I want to make some for myself.

    I can probably get 200 of these for 50€ including the shipping. So maybe I will do it.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Your best bet is very local. Go to craft fairs and farmers markets/Christmas markets, flea markets, and such. Around my area in Belgium, I went to our flea market and Christmas market in my village and found there are 2 people with small laser engraving/cutting side businesses for wood (perfect for coasters) and 2-3 people selling 3d-print stuff.

    It is almost impossible to find these people online because google won’t allow it and pushes the companies with SEO or paying them.

    • Tiuku@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Yeah search engines aren’t really trying to help us here… Alas, here I am ^^

      Thanks for the suggestion!

  • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    For novelty item the suggestions like ceramic ones or wood ones laser cut are better option and multiple people make these.

    But if you want the paper ones and actually want to use them the higher quantity isn’t that bad idea - they get wet all the time and tears apart, on the bar they last only few days. So ordering like 200 isn’t so large quantity when you think about it.

    I would ask in some craft brewery where they order them, usually it is some local smaller print shop which makes all kinds of promotional stuff - labels, fliers…

    At the brewery where I worked the guy from the print shop did the unified design for all the labels and other promotional stuff.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Oddball suggestion, do you know anyone into pottery? A nice simple coaster shape is easy to make a lot of as a potter and it provides a good basis to test glazes on. Normally potters will make a series of test tiles to explore glazes and they don’t actually have much practical use compared to a series of coasters they knew would actually be distributed and used and represent a meaningful event to someone.

    I bet you could make a nice simple logo and text to imprint into the clay and get a set of 20 or so made pretty easy this way! You will also give your potter (newfound?) friend a practical project of focus on!

    Exchange alcohol for the services and boom you don’t ever even need to exchange money if you don’t want to.