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 ...

It’s happened to veteran bar fly and casual drinker alike: that moment of panic when the bartender asks what beer you want and you have no idea. You could wave them off, but that bachelorette party ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paul Fichter realized a decade ago that he could profitably make distinctive tap handles for breweries by outsourcing the detailed production work to China. Recently, he realized something else: For ...