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 ...

AJS made these cone-headed taps for Stevens Point Brewery in Wisconsin. 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 ...

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 ...