Cheap and changeable beer taps

[Beer-lord]

I have a 3 tap tower and and looking for the most inexpensive tap that I can customize myself. I was hoping to find some way to just take a color shot from my printer to temporarily tap to the tap to display what each tap is.
Chalkboard taps are very expensive and if there was something that was magnetized, that would be great.
Who's been creative and cheap at the same time?

 

[mendesm]

The quickest and cheapest I can think of is to get a broom stick from the hardware store, cut pieces of the desired length and drill a hole in the bottom to screw them to the taps. Get some plastic that you can use dry erasers on (like the boards they sell at home depot to use in the shower/bathtub walls) and epoxy a piece of to each broom stick.

Old billiard cues make good tap handle material too.

I have yet to build/convert a keezer, but the local flea market, nearest Xmas Three Shop or other junk store, should make a great source of cheap and very off the wall props to turn into tap handles.

DIY tap handles: http://tinyurl.com/c3k6gh4

If all else fails, I'm making some from sculpey (a type of polymer clay that can be molded and put into a conventional oven to harden).

The possibilities are endless

 

[Beer-lord]

Thanks for the ideas.

After hours of online looking, I find something cheap that I can customize here:
http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-beer/tap-handles-pid-C100-4.html

 

[mendesm]

You might want to check this one too:

http://www.byo.com/stories/projects...ourself/397-build-your-own-custom-tap-handles

 

[Warthaug]

Another cheap option, the removes the need to change taps, is a wooden dowel with some blackboard paint on it. Drill & mount like mendesm mentioned, and use chalk to write the beer name on it.

Bryan

 

[Beer-lord]

Another cheap option, the removes the need to change taps, is a wooden dowel with some blackboard paint on it. Drill & mount like mendesm mentioned, and use chalk to write the beer name on it.

Bryan

Yep, that might work. Hoping to find someone with some wood-working tools to do the deed for me.
Thanks

 

[Warthaug]

Yep, that might work. Hoping to find someone with some wood-working tools to do the deed for me.
Thanks

It can be done with a hand-saw and drill' so long as you drill the hole in the bottom of the tap smaller than the bolt on the tap, it'll "self-tap" when you screw it on, giving a reasonably tight hold.

Bryan

 

[carlisle_bob]

Hi

Hot melt glue, garage sale coasters and laser printed labels are about as cheap as you are going to get...

Bob

 

[Double-R]

Have.. WhiteLabs yeast Vails laying around..


http://mainlinebrewers.com/projects/keezer/keezer_faucets/

 

[boysbrew2012]

yea I have a grim reaper IPA that its a winner and I was looking for a grim reaper/ghost rider handle...they dont seem to have one. My next alternative is to saw a square and buy a figurine and epoxy it to the wooden block, paint the block and prep it for the draft tap. Hard to believe with all the crazy ones out there ...there is no grim reaper

 

[Revvy]

Did you check out my thread? (Not Quite) Ugly Junk, Graphically Changeable Tap Handles

Pretty easy to do with hand tools. And I just printed out little baseball sized graphics for my beers, slipped them into baseball card sleeves with magnetic tape on the back, and swap them out with the metal plates on the back of the handles.