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, ...

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 ...

RANDOM LAKE, Wis. – Cone heads, zombies, beards, bananas – they are some of the creative beer tap handles that have become a big business as the number of craft breweries has skyrocketed. There were 2 ...

It takes more than 85 different steps to make one Ardent Craft Ale beer tap handle. “I made a bunch of different prototypes for them,” designer and fabricator Tom Brickman says. Once the ...

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 ...