Pennsylvania Beer Coaster Guide

Phyl Wood

This Pennsylvania Beer Coaster Guide is an attempt to catalog ALL of the known beer coasters produced by breweries or brewpubs in the state of Pennsylvania in the course of it's history.  Some of these coasters are pre-prohibition, others are in use today.  As old beer coasters are discovered and new coasters are produced, they are added to the guide.

When submitting a new coaster to be added to any of the guides, collectors often don't include enough information.  Please keep in mind that sending a jumble of images can be very confusing to those of us who don't read minds.  It would be least confusing to me if people follow these guidelines when submitting a coaster:

1. Each coaster listing should be sent in it's own e-mail.  
2. Include images of both sides.  Listing that the coaster is 1/0, 1/1 or 1/2 is almost as good but sometimes a 1/1 coaster is just a little different on each side and then I get emails from other collectors who state they found a different coaster.
3. List the size accurate to 1/4".    Rounding 3.5" to 3" or 4.25" to 4" is not helpful as some breweries produced both sizes for the same design.  Metric is fine, I'll make the conversion to the nearest 1/4" for you..
4. Check the web site to see if the coaster is already listed.
5. Check for typos and readability.  What may be clear to you is sometimes very confusing to me as you have the coasters in front of you.
6. Include other relevant information.  For example was it a limited edition, when was it produced, was this coaster produced by someone other than a brewery but still may be relevant some how, is this a non-brewery produced item that may be confused as such?.

I use this guide as an educational tool.  Some collectors object to some of the coasters in my guide.  If you only collect paper, or a certain range of sizes, that is fine.  Others may want the information so I include it.

For guides and information about beer coasters from the rest of the country and Canada I strongly urge you to check out
George Barone's site http://www.beercoastermania.com/index.html

Copyright 2002-2012 Philip Wood (All rights reserved).  This guide may not be copied or distributed in any form or media  (machine readable or in print) unless the following conditions are met.  All copies must be made with my permission. This guide and all of its parts must be completely free.  The guide must not be changed in any way.  This heading must be included in all copies. 

email: phylwood@charter.net

  Last update 5/3/2012                                                              
My Wanted lists: Pennsylvania  Rhode Island
Underlined coaster codes are ones I have.
Notes to Users of this Guide

Barbey's/Sunshine page1, page 2, page 3, page 4

Pa Napkin Guide - my list
Barley Creek PA paper placemats update 8/30/09
Bartels
Bavarian Barbarian Brewing Co.
Benny Brew Co (Marty's Blue Room)
Berwick Brewing Co
Bethlehem Brew Works, page 2
Beth-Uhl
John F. Betz
Black Rock
Boyertown
Brackenridge
Bradford
Brownsville
Bube's
Buckingham Mt.
Bullfrog
Bushkill
Chester
Church Brew Works
City & Ice
Class & Nachod
Columbia Columbia
Columbia Shenandoah
Crabby Larry's
Daeufers
Deppen
Derby
Destiny
Dock St.
Dubois
Duquesne page1, page2
Duquesne#2 (Chartiers Valley)
Eagle
Elk
Erie (Koehler) Page 1, Page 2
Erie (Hoppers) Erie Brewing Co.
Erlanger
Esslinger paqe 1, page 2
Evil Genius Beer
Fat Heads
Fell
Fernwood
Fink's
Fisher
Flocks
Forest & Main
Fort Pitt
Fort Pitt, Victor and Jones brewing companies have
intertwined histories and share beer names/coasters.
Franklin
Freeland
Furhmann and Schmidt   Page 1, Page 2
Gamble Mill Micro Brewing
General Braddock
Gettysbrew
Gibbons  Page 1, Page 2
Goenner
Graupner page 1, page 2
Wm. Gretz
Gruenewald
Haefner
Happy Valley
Helb's
Hohonadel
Homestead
Horlacher
Hornung's page 1, page 2, page 3
Independent
Independence Brewing Company
Independence Brew Pub
Intercourse Brewing Co.
Iron Hill       see Deleware Guide  DE-IRONxx
Jamaica was part of Barbey/Sunshine
John Harvard
Jones (Stoney's, Esquire) page 1, page 2, page 3
Kaiers Page 1, Page 2
Koch's
Kostenbader (Eagle Brewing)
Kuebler
Lackawana
Lancaster Brewing Co.
Lancaster Malt Brewing.
Latrobe page 1, page 2, page 2A, page 3, page 4,
page 5, page 6, page 7, page 8, page 9, page 10,
Lebanon Valley
Legacy
Lehigh Valley/Scheafer
The F&M Schaefer Co was primarily a NY company
but did have a brewery in Lehigh PA
. or see NY guide
Liebert & Obert (Cooper)
Lion, page 2
Lockport
Manayunk
Mauch Chunk
McKenzie
Moose
Mount Carbon
Mount Carmel
Mystic
Naked Brewing Co
Neustadtl Brewing Corp
Neuweiler's
New Roads
Nodding Head
Northhampton
Old Forge Brewing Co.
Old Lehigh
Ortlieb page 1, page 2, page 3
Otto's Pub & Brewery
Panther
Panther Hollow
Penn Steelton
Penn Star
Penn State
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4
Philadelphia Brewing Co (micro) (Kenzinger)
Page 1, page 2
Philipsburg
Pilzner (Hazelton)
Pittsburgh page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4
Pittston (Glennon's)
Pizza Boy Brewing Co
Poth
Premier
Pretzel
Primobarone's
Prussian St.
Queen City
Reading/Pale Reserve page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5
Red Star
E. Robinson's Sons
Roth's
Roy Pitz Brewing
Rumspringa Brewing Co
O.C. Saltzman
Sayre
Schaffhauser
Adam Scheidt's (Prior) page 1, page 2
Schillers
Christian Schmidt page 1, page 2, page 3
Selin's Grove
Seitz
ShawneeCraft (Gem and Keystone)
Slyfox
G.A.Soulas (rathskeller)
South Bethlehem
Sprenger
Spring House
Standard
Stegmaier page 1, page 2 ,page 3, page 4
St. Marys
Sterling
Stoudt's page 1, page 2
Straub
Stroudsburg
Sunbury
Sunnybrook
Swashbuckler Brewing
Three Rivers
Triumph Brewing   or see New Jersey guide
Troegs page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5
Tube City
Tun Tavern
Turkey Hill Brewing Co.
Union
Valhalla
Valley Forge (brewpub)
Victor
Victory page 1, page 2
Viking
Wacker
Wainright  page 1 page 2
Washington
Wayne
Weyerbacher
Weisbrod & Hess
Whitetail
Widman's
William Penn
Wyoming
Yards
Yough
Yuengling's page 1, page 2, page 3. page 4
Contract Brewery info
non brewery issued coasters glass, rubber mat Old Paper