Tapped Life | Craft Beer Lifestyle Blog — Beer Events

NPR has had a lot of reaction recently with a story by John Burnett, “To Stave Off Decline, Churches Attract New Members With Beer.” It inspired a spin-off, “5 Things You Might Not Have Known About God And Beer,” by Dustin Desoto, and it prompted a one-hour online chat (archived here) between those interviewed in the Burnett story and people who were curious to find out more about this mixing of God and Beer. Naturally, Tapped Life was intrigued. Beer church? | craft brewed spirituality. The Burnett article focused on two “congregations:” Beer & Hymns at First Christian Church in Portland,...

The Tapped Life team had one of their most interesting festival experiences yet while slinging beer shirts at the 2016 Colorado Motorcycle Expo at the National Western Complex in Denver this past weekend. Early on the first day Saturday, January 30, a fight broke out between rival motorcycle clubs resulting in 3 shots being fired, one man dead and six more in the hospital, several with critical stab wounds. It was a beautiful winter day in the city; the high temp was in the 60’s. Almost as though the weather was supportive of a January motorcycle event. The morning started out pretty slow as bike enthusiasts began arriving around...

Well, many of our dedicated drinkers may have noticed some changes around the ole’ Craft Brewed Clothing / Tapped Life show booth and our website over the past couple months. We are excited to announce some big (big for us, anyway) changes for 2016. Tapped into some changes. New Name & Mission Craft Brewed Clothing is now Tapped Life, LLC, a niche lifestyle brand that designs and markets fun, smart products and content intended to inspire creativity and promote positivity as our contribution to the craft food and beverage culture. Utilizing the age-old arts of graphic design and hand-printed apparel,...

All right, Tapped Life knows that craft beer lovers are dog lovers but even we were surprised when we started doing a little research on the subject. I mean DAMN…do brewers love their dogs. They will pretty much do anything to shower their best friend with craft brewed love (and fame) all in the name of great crafted beer. In dog beers i've only had one. There are breweries with dog in their names, there are breweries named for dogs, there are breweries owned by dogs, there are dog named beers and beers for dogs, there are dog-friendly breweries and...

At Tapped Life, we go to over 20 beer festivals a year and we have most definitely learned a couple things along ye ole beer trail. Here are some things we have learned…often the hard way. You know the hard way…spending a Saturday drinking local craft brews, laughing and selling t-shirts to all my favorite dedicated drinkers. 67 beer festivals and counting | brew fest tips from 3 years in the flow. • Be crafty but be prepared.     Let me just say this, it’s like the biblical plagues out there…sometimes. Now most often, Mother Nature is in full support...