Design Stories

Bounti-Fare Wood Guitar Tap Handle   This new guitar tap handle is one of our most creative designs yet! It is a laser engraved guitar tap handle made as a gift. Mike, our very talented “wood guy,” designed it for his friends at Bounti-Fare. Bounti-Fare is an...

Azalea City Brewing Company Blackboard tap handle   Azalea City Brewing Co. is a new brewery in Palatka, Florida. Andrea, the brewery’s owner, chose Palatka as the location due to her love for the outdoors. Palatka is home to many trails, and is located on the...

Tidal Creek Brewhouse is a beachtown brewery in South Carolina. They serve beer, coffee, and meals all day long. Dara from Tidal Creek asked us to replicate their previous wooden tap handle. Their logo (a fiddler crab holding hops) was carved into the wood. We let...

Volition Brewing Company is a brewery located all the way across the country from Knockout Designs, in North Bend, Washington! The brewery offers beer to-go as well as Founders Club memberships. Both kids and dogs are welcome! Lucas from Volition Brewing Co. ordered...

At Knockout Designs, we recently had the privilege of working with a new type of client. We created a new custom tap for beer distributor, TapRm. They connect breweries with clients and provide varied, entire e-commerce solutions for sales. TapRm will deliver beer...

Celestial Beerworks loved the first set of tap handles we designed for them, and they’re back for more! We are thrilled to continue working with this Dallas brewery. In June we designed similar tap handles for them, also with a disco ball on top. Those disco ball tap...

The team at Knockout Designs was thrilled to design a new custom tap handle for Excalibur Brewing, a brewery in Spring, Texas. During this pandemic, they have altered hours for beer to-go. They specialize in small batches in order to satisfy their guests' unique...

Meier’s Creek Brewery is a new brewery in Cazenovia, NY. They are also more than just a simple brewery. They take pride in food production, and have a menu that includes labeled vegan and gluten free options. Meier’s Creek wanted wooden, paddle-shaped tap handles with...

Precious at Connecticut-based Beer’d Brewing Co. reached out to Knockout Designs for some new, custom designs. They needed cabinet and door hardware that would highlight their unique logo and brand. This included a barn door pull, coat hook, and drawer pull. The...

Celestial Beerworks is a new brewery in Dallas, Texas. The brewery welcomes all guests, and they strive to create an ambiance that matches the quality of their beer. Their motto is: “We love hops, we love design, we love space, and we would love for you to come by and...

Some of our favorite tap handles to design are the ones with fun, unique logos. The Ravenous Pig is a brewery with that type of logo. The Ravenous Pig is located in Winter Park, Florida, a suburb of Orlando. Lure Designs, a graphic design company hired by the Ravenous...

The latest “Knockout Design” was for van der Brew, a brewery in Winthrop, Maine! They opened in 2018 and have been busy ever since. Van der Brew’s logo includes a windmill, and they wanted it to be laser-engraved onto a wooden tap handle. The windmill comes from the...

Each one of our designs is just as unique as our client who orders it. Recently, we got a call from Dennis at Concord Craft Brewery, in Concord, New Hampshire. He wanted a ski tap handle for his winter “Apres Brewski.” This is a special winter brew which is...

Recently, Knockout Designs faced an exciting new challenge; designing bone broth tap handles.  A bone broth store called “Brodo” opened a new location in Manhattan. Brodo makes chicken, beef, hearth, and (vegan) mushroom broth. Customers also order different add-ins,...

Want to kick back with a cold beer in Greenville, South Carolina? Tetrad Brewing Company has got you covered. The word “tetrad” means a group or arrangement of four. It symbolizes the four ingredients used to make beer: grain, hops, yeast, and water. Tetrad Brewing...

Dock Street Brewery in Philadelphia reached out to Knockout Designs to create a wooden cricket bat tap handle. The brewery ordered it for a customer of theirs, Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, PA. Merion Cricket Club serves Dock Street’s Sticky Wicket beer, a Golden...

Here at Knockout Designs, our latest adventure was designing a wine tap handle! A winery called Wooden Wheel Vineyards LLC, in Keota, Iowa, requested five tap handles for serving their Steel Horse Wine. They wanted a wooden tap handle, screen-printed with the Iron...

Provincetown Brewing Company participates in recreational activism, or, as they call it, draftivism. They donate a portion of every sale to charity, so you can always feel great about yourself and know that you’re supporting important causes while enjoying a...

Slalom Build, a consulting agency for the technology industry, recently requested a custom office tap handle. They pride themselves on their role in building “the modern technology products of tomorrow.” Employees at Slalom Build have backgrounds in engineering and...

April at Guadalupe Mountain Brewing Company in Carlsbad, NM reached out to us in search of the perfect tap handle. She wanted their logo to be printed in plastic and on top of a wooden tap handle. Guadalupe Mountain Brewing Co. is a spacious brewery that serves beer,...