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Maker Faire Town Hall Saturates TechShop SF

Maker Faire Town Hall Saturates TechShop SF

We had a massive turnout for this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area’s Town Hall meeting in San Francisco Tuesday evening. The folks at TechShop SF were kind enough to lend us their space for the meeting and to give walking tours of the facility. Makers from all over the San Francisco Bay Area and abroad were able to meet with the Maker Faire Crew in-person, establish new connections, and kick the season off with a bang. Also on hand to satiate the frenzied crowd of risk-takers, doers, and makers of things were the folks from The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen in South Park with monster gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches and cups of smoky tomato soup. Yum!

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Making Red Wine Vinegar – CRAFT Video Podcast

Making Red Wine Vinegar – CRAFT Video Podcast

Red wine vinegar is really easy to make at home. All you need is some leftover red wine, some water, red wine vinegar mother, and a few tools. You can look for red wine vinegar at your local homebrewing shop, but mine was out, so I ordered it online. It’s basically “live” red wine vinegar which contains the bacteria Acetobacter, which eats alcohol and turns it into acetic acid, the tangy flavor we know as vinegar. This project appears as an article in CRAFT, Vol. 9 by Alastair Bland. Read more at http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/02/making_red_wine_vinegar_craft.html

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