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Hopworks Beer Bike

Hopworks Beer Bike

The Hopworks Beer Bike is a perfect storm. It’s the colmination of a love of craft and a deep respect for producing a quality product. Designed and built by Phillip Ross and Jamie Nichols of Metrofiets Cargo Bikes for Christian Ettinger of Hopworks Urban Brewery, the dual keg toting pub-on-wheels sports an aluminum pan with fifty feet of draft coil, two custom taps, inlaid old-growth woodwork bar with a split top for easy access to the kegs, an MP3 sound system modeled after a motorcycle’s hard pannier bag, and a back rack capable of holding three large pizzas for the unavoidable crowd that forms every time the bike stops.

Good-looking Ikeahacked speakers

Good-looking Ikeahacked speakers

Inspired by the classic spherical speaker array Instructable from user mzed, Charles Visnic created these cool wireless speakers by transplanting the guts of a pair of RocketFish speakers into some of birch bowls from Ikea, mounted rim-to-rim. It’s a very cool build, but I have to say I’m just as impressed with this clever little working tip from Charles’ write-up:

This Week in Craft Fairs

Here is our weekly listing of upcoming craft fairs. Please add any events you know of to our online calendar, and if you have a call for vendors you’d like listed, please . Coming Up This Weekend: Summertime in the Vineyard Arts & Craft Show & Sale Riverhead, NY Saturday, Aug. 7, 11am – 6pm […]

How-To: Blueberry Cookie Sandwiches

Kelly at EatMakeRead writes: One of my favorite things from my trip to Michigan was visiting a few farmers markets. There are farms galore in the Southwest region of the state where I’m from, so the market was lush with everything from peaches and peppers to flowers and meat… basically it was pretty dreamy. One […]

How-To: Mint Syrup

The how-to pictures for making this mint syrup from Kelly of Make Grow Gather have my mouth watering and make me long to be able to take a big whiff of mint and lemon and sugar being mashed together. A good glug of this syrup makes everything taste like summer: add some to lemonade, cocktails, […]