Barrel Tap is a wooden accessory item from IndustrialCraft 2 (IC2) that turns a finished Barrel into a working beer dispenser inside Minecraft. By itself the Barrel only stores fermenting liquid; the Tap is the part that lets you pour. You craft it from wood planks and a stick using the IC2 recipe, then right-click any side of a Barrel to attach the Tap to that face. Once placed, a Barrel Tap becomes a small protruding model that can be right-clicked with empty Mugs to fill them with whatever beer the Barrel finished brewing. Each interaction consumes some of the Barrel's internal fluid; once the Barrel is empty the Tap returns no output until the Barrel is refilled and re-fermented. The Tap is decorative as well as functional, which lets you build realistic tavern counters by placing several Barrels in a row with Taps aligned along the front. Removing the Tap is done by breaking it with a fist or pickaxe — the parent Barrel itself is not destroyed. The Barrel Tap is intentionally the only valid output for the IC2 Barrel; no fluid pipe, hopper or transposer from other tech mods can drain the Barrel, so the Tap is a mandatory part of any IC2 brewery setup.