Tap Handles
A proper pour begins with a proper handle
This is exactly what you get with our custom tap handles handmade in Brooklyn, NY
How do you help your brewery stand out in a crowded and growing craft beer world?
By pouring your delicious beer from custom-made tap handles unique to your brand.We work with some of the most talented local breweries to make furniture-quality, one-of-a-kind wooden tap handles.
With the help of our craftsmanship, you create a taproom experience that reflects your style and your brand.
You no longer have to settle for generic plastic handles or a cluttered cornucopia of tap handles on your draft tower.
Our Refreshingly Simple 4-Step Process
Step 1Collaborate
You work with a tap handle artisan to discuss your craft brand goals and ideas for your tap handles.
Step 2Design
During this stage we’ll work to customize your tap handles.You choose logo size and positioning, hardwood species, finish or color, handle shape and size and we fabricate an initial prototype.
Step 3Review
You receive a prototype of your tap handle and ensure it’s exactly how you imagined.
Step 4Order
Approve your prototype, place an order for a desired quantity and receive you custom made tap handles within 2 to 3 weeks.
Are you doing a tap makeover and looking for a quicker way to get customized tap handles?
We stock a small assortment of stock proles ready to be laser-engraved with you brand logo.
Our Story
Beertable draft tower with the walnut tap handles
In 2008, Beertable, an intimate craft beer tasting room opened in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Nate quickly became a regular customer and good friends with the Beertable’s proprietor, Justin Phillips. Justin was pouring the beer with the generic, black plastic tap handles. One day Justin asked Nate “Have you ever made a wooden tap handle?” He had an idea for a tap handle made out of walnut to match the walnut woodwork in the tap room and was having a hard time finding a walnut tap handle with the shape that he had in mind. Justin sketched out the tap handle shape on the napkin, a round ball tapering into the faucet lever. Next week, Nate delivered a set of seven walnut tap handles for the Beertable’s draft tower. Justin loved the tap handles.
Another Beertable customer, Anton, a local draft tower technician, saw the walnut tap handles and began approaching us regularly for wooden tap handles for the custom draft towers he was building. As the word spread, local breweries and bars began approaching Nate to make them wooden tap handles.
Since 2009, Southside Workshop Inc. has made thousands of wooden tap handles. Nothing makes us happier than to see our customers grow and expand their business and rely on us for their tap handles needs.
Beer Bike
Not long after Nate made the walnut tap handles for Beertable, Justin approached Nate about his idea for a beer bike with a walnut top and of course, matching walnut tap handles. Since then Justin has used it to bring craft beer to numerous events in New York City.
