There's an art to making beer tap handles. From a bartending perspective, sometimes an overly-designed tap handle can backfire. Horne noted that certain trends in handle design can make pouring beers ...

Every so often, a vendor supplying kegs will provide an incorrect tap handle, or no tap handle at all. This means the bartender must use a boring generic tap handle or—much worse—one for a different ...

Arlington’s Skookum Brewery uses a carved wooden bear claw. Bothell’s Decibel Brewing recycles old microphones. Everett’s Scuttlebutt features a mermaid, which to be fair, is far from beautiful. “The ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio | When Roy Wadding sits down at a bar, he makes sure to scan the draft selection before ordering a beer. His eyes zip from one tap handle to the next, searching for something different, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Roy Wadding sits down at a bar, he makes sure to scan the draft selection before ordering a beer. His eyes zip from one tap handle to the next, searching for something different, ...

The next time you ask for a Sprecher draft, give just as much attention to the craftwork of Mark Hargarten as the handiwork of the bartender drawing your tap. Hargarten made that Sprecher tapper ...

A pointy-headed professor. A hand-painted heron. A steel fist rising in the air. These are all works of American art, of a sort — but you can't go to a museum to see them. You go to your local bar or ...

TORONTO — In the past five years, beer tap maker Chrislan Ceramics has seen its business double thanks to a boom in the Canadian craft beer industry. The Maple Ridge, B.C., manufacturer says it ...

Here in the Northwest, we’re high-end drinkers with sophisticated palates, and we know: Picking our beers based on their tap handles is like choosing our wines by their labels or blind dates by their ...