Nearly every taproom in Colorado has the same wall problem. Concrete, exposed brick, or a garage door, all of it grey, all of it hard, and a room that looks fine at noon and looks like a warehouse at nine. Neon is what people put on that wall, and it's the reason so many taproom photos on Instagram have a glowing logo in the background.

We bend real glass in our shop in Englewood — not LED rope in a plastic sleeve. If you want the detail on how that's made and what it costs, that's on our custom neon page. This page is about what breweries and bars actually order.

What gets ordered

Your logo, at wall scale, behind the bar or the pour rail. This is the one that ends up in every photo a customer takes and every photo you post. It's the single highest-return sign in the building.

Taglines and slogans — the line on your cans, your motto, the thing your regulars already say.

Room and area markers. Taproom, patio, cellar, barrel room, restrooms. A pinball or arcade room, which has become a common ask as taprooms add game space.

"OPEN" in the window, which is the oldest neon sign there is and still works better than anything else at telling someone driving past that you're serving.

Built for a working bar

A taproom is a hostile room for a sign. Humidity from the cellar and the glasswasher, temperature swings when the garage door goes up, condensation, and surfaces that get hosed down. We mount and wire for that — proper standoffs, sealed connections, transformer placed where it can be reached without dismantling the piece.

Glass is also repairable, which matters more here than anywhere else. Bars are busy rooms and things get knocked. A cracked tube gets replaced; a damaged LED sign gets thrown away. We repair and repump glass, including signs we didn't make and signs that have been dark for years — plenty of Colorado breweries have inherited something from a previous tenant that's worth bringing back.

Outdoor and event spaces

If you're running a patio, a beer garden or a festival footprint, tell us that upfront. Outdoor placement changes the mounting, the enclosure and the electrical, and a piece specced for behind the bar is not a piece you hang under an open sky in Colorado weather. We'd rather build it right than repair it in November.

Neon for bars and taprooms starts at $450 for a small single-color piece and runs up from there with size, complexity and the number of colors. Send us your logo — most brewery logos were drawn by someone who understood line work, which is exactly what bends well in glass.