It’s been an absolutely brutal year for the Boston music scene. Many of us have been glued to sites like Vanyaland and Eater Boston following updates on the drama around Great Scott losing their home of decades. With their closing we knew that it was a matter of when, not Read more…
Because beer tap handle collecting is a relatively niche portion of beer memorabilia collecting there can be limited information about how to get started, where to buy beer tap handles, and how much the tap handles should cost. The general rule of beer tap handle collecting is that the the Read more…
TLDR: Until May 31st (and longer if needed) I’m giving 100% of profits to Covid-19 response including Restaurant Employees Relief Fund and US Brewers Guilds. I’m also encouraging all orders to go through my Etsy shop to help promote other small businesses. When I started RainTaps I was driven by Read more…
International Beer Day 2018 is almost here! This year Internation Beer Day is falling on August 3rd so it’s time to start preparing to celebrate. With an event as big and global as this it seemed like a great idea to do a tiny little celebration for the twelve days Read more…
You’re on the hunt for an umbrella. It definitely exists, your friends have one, you just don’t know where to find it. Seems like it should be simple to find an umbrella but there’s a problem. When you’re hunting for an umbrella it might be from a movie, a video Read more…
A year ago I wasn’t planning on creating a business making beer gifts. I didn’t think I’d be working with local breweries like Down the Road and Shipyard. There was definitely no plan to expand into making bottle openers, pizza cutters, and other gifts with beer tap handles. On this Read more…
Ok hear me out for a sec, I”m not talking about anyone breaking into your blog or anything crazy like that. This hacking is where you’re stepping aside from your standard process and presenting your challenges to a group of experts so they can hack together new approaches to tackle Read more…
Over the past weekend, the Chicago Cubs were caught “smuggling” Spotted Cow back home at the end of their series in Wisconsin. Someone that just happened to be in the right place at the right time noticed a couple of cases of the beer from New Glarus Brewing on the Cubs’ Read more…
This is part of a series of articles about what it’s like to build a craft business. I’ll be sharing insights from what it’s like making craft beer gifts at RainTaps and I’ll also be interviewing other members of the crafter/maker community. Last week I was getting ready for another pop-up Read more…
Have you ever had one of those moments where you didn’t notice something because it was hidden in plain sight? Like when you go to a bookstore and you’re looking for a particular title and you spend twenty minutes looking for it, only to have the clerk tell you that Read more…