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Sunday, October 13, 2019

Wild Berry IPA Recipe

Another experimental beer in the carboy. Today(10/13/19) brewed a wild berry IPA, using the wild berries(some people call them wine berries) from my parents property. After the pumpkin beer was a partial success, hoping this one will be better!
Recipe:
7 lb pale malt
1 lb 5oz 10 row barley
~2oz nugget fresh leaf hops
~0.5oz cascade fresh leaf hops
1oz chinook pellet hops
~6 cups reduced wild berrys
1 wirflock tablet
White labs Belgian strong ale yeast
60min: chinook, 1/4 cascade/nugget mix
45min: 1/4 cascade/nugget mix
30min: 1/4 cascade/nugget mix
15min: wirflock tablet, 1/4 cascade/nugget mix
Racked beer on top of wild berry juice.


Saturday, October 12, 2019

Smart coffee table

I couldn't find any pictures of the before, but here is the outcome from restoring/updating my old ugly coffee table. It used to be all one color, a light brown stain. With the help from the girlfriend, we sanded the whole thing, then I painted the legs white and the stained the top with the leftover stain from the farmhouse table project.

Of course there had to be more to the project than that... I added a power strip, wireless phone charger, and some RGB lights under it. You may ask why does a coffee table need lights. It doesn't. But I recently discovered the blynk IOT app and I was looking for an excuse to control RGB led strip from my phone AND I already had power going to the table. For the power controller I used a nodeMcu that I bought off ebay for 2$ and some mosfets I had laying around. If I were to do it again I would just buy the RGB controller, lot of work for this useless feature(well its cool?)

Final product!

Built in outlet

NodeMcu and mosfet board

LED strip and all wiring