Food & Beverage

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.

KegDroid Smart Tap

KegDroid Smart Tap

In an attempt to make brewing his small batch beer even more fun than it already is, Android hacker and home brewer Paul Carff created KegDroid, an NFC/RFID enabled smart tap for his home bar. Presenting the device with a MiFare-based RFID/NFC compatible tag will cause it to authenticate the user and pull up their preferences on an Android tablet.

DIY Lärabars

DIY Lärabars

Lärabars are energy bars that only use unsweetened fruits, nuts, spices, and chocolate. There are flavors like carrot cake, cherry pie, and coconut cream pie. They’re great for a quick breakfast or for sustenance on a hike, but like most packaged foods, it is cheaper to make your own. Also, you can come up with […]

Recipe: Lemon Pound Cake

Pound cake is one of my favorite treats, and if you’re making a lemon pound cake and are adding strawberries and whipped cream to the plate … well forget about it, I’m drooling just thinking about it. Calli of Make it Do shares her recipe for lemon pound cake, and I’m thinking this is just […]