TAPS Draft Service

06/11/2025

Cleaning at Neighbors house bar and grill. Where you can get a beer or bloody with your breakfast 7 days a week !

01/09/2025

Doing what we do at the new Roosters Call on Shaver Road !

10/21/2024

Doing what we do at ALIBI in portage !

05/27/2023

BE THE GOOD IN THE WORLD !

”Last night, while waiting to board our plane, Carter Jean was being her usual inquisitive self wanting to meet and say “hi” to everyone she could, until she walked up on this man.
He reached out and asked if she wanted to sit with him.
He pulled out his tablet and showed her how to draw with it, they watched cartoons together, and she offered him snacks.
This wasn’t a short little exchange, this was 45 minutes.
Watching them in that moment, I couldn’t help but think, different genders, different races, different generations, and the best of friends.
This is the world I want for her.
In a country that is so deeply divided by beliefs, I want her life to be filled with moments like this... not liberal or conservative republican or democrat, socialist or capitalist, just HUMAN.
Joseph from Samsungus in Oklahoma, if this should happen to find you.
Thank you for showing my daughter what kindness and compassion looks like.
Continue to shine your light in the world.”
Credit: Kevin Armentrout

12/20/2022

BE THE GOOD IN THE WORLD !

“This kid dialed 911 telling the dispatcher he was running away from home after an argument with his mother. This officer arrived talked to the kid and went into his bedroom which was empty outside of a deflated blowup bed. The young man essentially slept on the floor.

The officer encouraged the boy to stay home. The child’s mother facing a tough financial hardship. The officer left and soon returning with a bed, a television and a game system. The child was elated beyond words. Not all angels wear wings! Thank you officer!!!!” ❤️❤️❤️

Source: Good Thinking

12/12/2022

PRO Tip Monday: Did you know the ‘Jumper’ carries beverage from the keg to the wall bracket or wall panel and is a very different material than the product lines in the black trunk? Jumpers are soft, pliable and porous. That means that over time this material picks up flavors and aromas in those pours. In these pictures you see jumper material that is only 18 & 30 months old and cleaned properly their entire life. We see jumpers as old as the systems themselves and this is likely driving revenue down. It’s harder to see money no one spends but would have than the money being spent on investment of quality. While your trunk can last a decade and a half and maybe more the jumpers are meant to be swapped every 12-24 months. Because they soak up all those flavors and aromas they can be bacterially clean and still effect the flavor of the product. In beer, for example, old jumpers dull the bright notes of hops and mellow the richness of many malts and aromas. If we cut one of these open, even after cleaning, it would smell like old stale beer. Folks may not complain, but they’ll buy less. If your jumpers are older than 2 years consider asking your draft company to swap them out (using STAINLESS STEEL tail pieces, NOT Chrome). This is not an expensive thing to do to invest in, and one must invest to earn more and sustain that more. Quality and attention to detail drive revenue growth and profit on that revenue. -Cheers!

(Ps bonus: they don’t have to be 8 feet long and 3/8” internal diameter. Try making your jumpers shorter and with 5/16th ID to make your cooler more manageable and reduce waste at cleaning which both mean more revenue and higher profit)

06/11/2022

New draft system at Louie’s downtown !

03/17/2022

New draft install today . From four tap kegerator to 10 tap glycol tower !

04/09/2021

We have heard folks suggest that because they haven’t used a draft system it shouldn’t be as dirty. However, even the flow of beer helps clear away building up schmutz (technical term) to some extent. If a draft system was left with beer or beer residue during dormancy this is the best of what the components look like in that system beer is now pouring over. Time for a deep clean! And, ps, see that rough brass? That’s what happens to chrome plated brass draft parts. It’s a couple bucks cheaper but the chrome wears away in a year leaving this rough brass for the final inches of the beers journey...which means adding to foaminess (another technical term) and loss of profit. Losing a few bucks every night after a year to save a few bucks once upfront isn’t an equation that makes sense to us?

04/03/2021

Doing an install at a new place in Sawyer, The Local Pour.

10/02/2020

Making sure the beer lines are clean for all the fun and frivolities! Did someone say happy hour !!