RANDOM LAKE (WITI) -- If during the past 27 years you've been in a bar and bought a beer on tap, chances are you've tapped into the craft of a small company from southeastern Wisconsin. At AJS Tap ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

RANDOM LAKE – Near the southern border of Sheboygan County, a small but fast-growing manufacturing shop now stands as the epicenter for what’s become one of the beer industry’s more creative marketing ...

Beer lovers look at a tavern’s tap handles as a menu — a way to decide which brew to order. Koenig looks at them and wonders “Why didn’t we make that one?” It doesn’t happen often. Hankscraft AJS is ...

In Seattle, there are a lot of beer options. Duh! It’s one thing many of us pride ourselves on about the Emerald City–and the Pacific Northwest in general. And with all those options comes a lot of ...