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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...