Craft Your Tasting Room Atmosphere with Custom Printed Shades
Custom printed window shades help breweries, wineries, and tasting rooms create immersive brand environments that elevate the drinking experience. Beyond aesthetics, printed shades protect UV-sensitive beverages, manage glare for comfortable tasting conditions, and serve as branded design elements that reinforce your craft identity.
OrangePiel works with craft beverage producers to design and manufacture custom printed shades that balance the visual warmth of tasting room design with the practical demands of beverage production environments.
Protecting Your Product
UV light is the enemy of craft beverages. Custom printed shades provide critical product protection:
- Wine preservation: UV radiation accelerates wine degradation, altering flavor, aroma, and color. Shades blocking up to 99% of UV rays protect bottles displayed near windows and in tasting areas
- Beer lightstrike prevention: Hops compounds are extremely light-sensitive—even brief UV exposure causes "skunking." Printed shades protect taproom inventory and display coolers near windows
- Barrel aging protection: Production spaces with windows benefit from UV-blocking shades that protect aging barrels and fermentation vessels
- Label and packaging protection: Retail displays near windows stay vibrant longer when shaded from direct sun
Creating Immersive Brand Experiences
Tasting rooms are where customers connect most deeply with your brand. Custom printed shades amplify that experience:
- Vineyard and farm imagery: Panoramic prints of your vineyard, hop fields, or orchard create an immersive connection to the source of your beverages
- Brand storytelling: Printed shades featuring your founding story, brewing process, or signature ingredients communicate brand values visually
- Label and artwork reproduction: Your iconic label designs and bottle art reproduced at large scale create a gallery-like celebration of your creative identity
- Seasonal themes: Swappable shade panels let you update imagery for seasonal releases, harvest events, and holiday themes
Tasting Room Light Management
Great tasting experiences require thoughtful lighting:
- Color perception: Accurate color assessment is essential for wine, beer, and spirits evaluation. Light-filtering shades create consistent, neutral lighting that doesn't distort beverage appearance
- Ambiance control: Transition from bright daytime tasting to intimate evening events by adjusting shade positions
- Glare-free bar areas: Tasting bar counters near windows benefit from shades that eliminate uncomfortable direct sun in customers' eyes
- Patio transition: For tasting rooms with indoor-outdoor flow, shades manage the visual transition between bright exterior and controlled interior light
Design Ideas for Craft Beverage Spaces
- Estate photography: Drone or panoramic vineyard and farm photography printed across multiple window panels
- Process artwork: Artistic renderings or photographs of the brewing, fermenting, or distilling process
- Vintage label collection: Historical labels and packaging art reproduced as a gallery wall on shade fabric
- Map and terroir: Topographic maps, soil cross-sections, or regional maps highlighting your appellation or growing region
- Abstract brand patterns: Custom patterns incorporating hop cones, grape clusters, grain sheaves, or other ingredients as repeating design elements
Production Space Applications
Beyond tasting rooms, custom printed shades serve brewery and winery production areas. UV-blocking shades protect fermentation and aging environments, while branded prints maintain a professional appearance for the increasingly popular production floor tours that craft beverage businesses offer.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much UV protection do your shades provide for wine and beer storage areas?
Our shade fabrics block up to 99% of harmful UV radiation. For tasting rooms and retail areas where beverages are displayed near windows, this level of protection significantly extends product shelf life and prevents UV-induced off-flavors. For production areas with barrel aging, we recommend our full blackout fabrics for maximum protection.
Can printed shades handle the humidity in a brewery production environment?
Yes. We offer moisture-resistant fabric options designed for high-humidity environments. Brewery production floors, cellar spaces, and barrel rooms with elevated moisture levels won't cause warping, mildew, or print degradation on our commercial-grade fabrics.
Can we change shade designs for seasonal beer or wine releases?
Absolutely. Our roller shade systems use replaceable fabric panels. Manufacture new seasonal prints—harvest themes, holiday releases, summer collections—and swap them onto existing hardware. Many tasting rooms maintain 2-4 seasonal shade sets that rotate throughout the year, keeping the space fresh and aligned with current offerings.
Do you print on shades large enough for warehouse-style brewery tasting rooms?
Yes. We produce shades up to 12 feet wide in a single panel, and larger openings use coupled multi-panel systems. Converted warehouse spaces with oversized industrial windows are among our most common brewery projects. Contact us with your window dimensions for a custom solution.
