diff --git a/lib/renderers/cli.js b/lib/renderers/cli.js
index d28e7128..36d30814 100644
--- a/lib/renderers/cli.js
+++ b/lib/renderers/cli.js
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 var mout = require('mout');
 
+var colorful;
+var colorless;
 var paddings = {
     tag: 10,
     tagPlusLabel: 31
 };
-
 var tagColors = {
     'warn': 'yellow',
     'error': 'red',
@@ -22,9 +23,9 @@ function renderError(err) {
     var str;
 
     err.level = 'error';
-    err.tag = err.code;
+    err.tag = 'error';
 
-    str = 'bower ' + renderTagPlusLabel(err) + ' ' + err.message + '\n';
+    str = 'bower ' + renderTagPlusLabel(err) + ' ' + (err.code ? err.code + ' ,' : '') + err.message + '\n';
 
     // Check if additional details were provided
     if (err.details) {
@@ -89,19 +90,22 @@ function renderTagPlusLabel(data) {
 
 // -------------------------
 
-module.exports.colorful = {};
-module.exports.colorful.head = empty;
-module.exports.colorful.tail = empty;
-
-module.exports.colorful.data = renderData;
-module.exports.colorful.error = renderError;
-module.exports.colorful.end = renderEnd;
-module.exports.colorful.checkout = renderCheckout;
+colorful = {
+    head: empty,
+    tail: empty,
+    data: renderData,
+    error: renderError,
+    end: renderEnd,
+    checkout: renderCheckout
+};
 
 // The colorless variant simply removes the colors from the colorful methods
-module.exports.colorless = mout.object.map(module.exports.colorful, function (fn) {
+colorless = mout.object.map(module.exports.colorful, function (fn) {
     return function () {
         var str = fn.apply(fn, arguments);
         return uncolor(str);
     };
 });
+
+module.exports.colorful = colorful;
+module.exports.colorless = colorless;