ABV: 9.8%
$: $7-$8 750ml

Three Philosophers is a belgian style quadruple ale, it is a blend of 98% belgian ale and 2% ale with cherries added. No worries this is not a cherry beer at all. It is belgian STYLE because it is brewed in Cooperstown NY.

Smell: Floral, carmel and slightly almond

Color: Fairly dark brownish red

Taste: Rather fruity and flowery at first then moves into more of woody aged taste and finish with a slight bitterness of hops.

Mouth: Kind of chewy but what do you expect with a quad. It is more carbonated than I like in a belgian but a good swirl in the glass takes care of that.

Nice belgian beer, I am not a big fan of quadruples but this one was better than I expected. I like how balanced it is which is hard to do with such a heavy beer. Over all it is a pretty tasty beer.

I brewed a porter about 6 weeks ago and it is turning into a delicious brew, it is just now coming into maturity. I designed a sweet label for this brew because I have been giving it away to a couple folks. This beer is smooth and rather chocolaty in taste, I am still figuring out how to carbonate kegged beer properly so I think it might be a little over carbed. There is a faint smell of smoke on the nose and the belgium lace is thin. Over all it is really delicious and I would love to share one with you!

Special thanks to Mitchell and Single Brothers for giving me a whole case of these really great New Belgium sniffer glasses.

Thanks to my good friend Aaron and his donation to After 5 of a 20lb. CO2 tank, I am now kegging my homebrew. No longer must I de-label, clean and sanitize 50ish brown bottle per batch of beer. The kegs I use are not the typical 15 gallon sankey kegs that regular bar taps use, the kegs homebrews use are 5 gallon soda kegs. Soda kegs are set up a little differently and much easier for homebrews to use. Right now I am using 2 Pepsi kegs and thanks to Krankies Coffee Bar I also have 7 more Coke kegs that I have yet to use.

I am proud to say that After 5 Brewery’s beer is now on tap!

I bought another RCA Record Player / 8 Track Player / Radio for $10 at a thrift store and turned it into a vintage iPod dock. I used a small 12v car amp, a toggle switch, some guitar knobs, an old school panel light, a simple iPhone dock and a piece of lexan. The big knob is volume and the little knobs are treble and bass. It turned out pretty sweet and it sounds great.

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So I was Googling around and I came across an advertising agency the UK called Evo Design evodesign.ltd.uk. Things look a little familiar? The top logo is from Evo Design evographicdesign.com, my freelance business that I established in 2004 and the bottom logo is Evo Design UK’s established in 2008. Very interesting……..

This a short film secretly shot in an Ikea, it is pretty funny and the acting is actually really good.

Dishwasher Door Spring, Palette Wood and Wire 2009

Wire and Spring

I have been working on a full series of up-cycled pieces designed for home and office use. The purpose of the work is to make beautiful, functional objects out of unwanted materials. Each object is made from parts and pieces that have out lived their first purpose and my goal is to create a new function for them. My latest additions to the series are these business card holders, designed for a desk or table top display of business cards. More detailed pictures below.

I have a wall mounted lamp and table lamp combination in the works now. This series, called Up-Cycled, includes the coffee table, ipod dock and vase, I hope to have a gallery show Winston sometime in November.

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This a flower vase created from a piece of an old bike tire tube and a some rusty wire. I am working on putting a whole show together of repurposed junk. I have a night stand and a way to hang pictures in the works as well as several other possibilities.

When we moved into our house I found a giant piece of plexiglass in my shed. This thing is 2 feet wide, 5 feet long and 1.25 inches thick, making it weigh about 70 pounds. I took the legs off an old footrest from the 1960s, a couple holes and a few carriage bolts later we got an ultra minimalist, modern coffee table.

So I bought this old record cabinet at Mega Thrift for $12.50 hoping that I could get a needle and play some old thrift store record I have picked up over the years.I think a bought a myth or a lie or something because NO ONE MAKES FREAKIN NEEDLES FOR THIS THING!! I found one needle that might work for $80!! Skip that!! So I gutted the thing and turned it into the biggest, coolest, retroest iPod dock ever!!

Here is the final result!

I cut out all the stuff I didn’t need like the turn table, the 8-track player and the radio. I kept the amps and the EQ intact. Then I moved all of the necessary equipment up under the ride side of the piece, leaving the middle hollow and empty for liquor case to be installed later. After I did that I re-wired the power so it powers the amps plus has a power USB cable to plug into the iPod dock itself. Then I wired a stereo mini jack cable into the rca tape inputs for the sweet tunes to flow through. Finally I replaced the ugly, old fabric covering the speakers.

Here are a bunch more pictures showing the process.