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Brewing Chocolate Maple Porter
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in BeerThe day after bottling my first batch of beer, I cooked up another. This time, I decided to make a chocolate maple porter from the Brooklyn Brew Shop Beer Making Book. While you can buy the mixes from the Brooklyn Brew Shop directly, I visited my local brewing supply shop, Brewcraft, to get the ingredients. I…
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Furry Purple Monster
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in SketchesExpanding my Illustrator skills through a furry monster tutorial. Of course, the nice thing about Illustrator versus pencil is it’s easy to duplicate your work and make another furry friend.
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Self Portrait
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in SketchesThis is a self portrait I did while taking a drawing course at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009. I used graphite and a cotton swab. Not quite accurate, but some part of me probably looks like this at times.
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Making Beer with the Brooklyn Brew Shop Kit – Part 2
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in BeerAfter waiting two weeks for my Everyday IPA from the Brooklyn Brew Shop to ferment, it was time to get the beer out of its hiding place and into some bottles. I sanitized my recycled bottles with the remainder of the C Brite. Then I used the racking cane and tubing to siphon the beer…
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Making Beer with the Brooklyn Brew Shop Kit
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in BeerBeer. I love it. And someone who loves me got me the Brooklyn Brew Shop’s Beer Making Kit as well as their Beer Making Book of small batch recipes for Christmas. Last night I made my first beer, their Everyday IPA. The kit comes with the equipment, malt, hops, and yeast needed to make a gallon. It’s…
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Any Empire Sketches
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in SketchesAfter reading Any Empire, I was inspired by the style of the artwork. I copied a few images to better understand it. To make it more interesting, I drew them in my Walls Notebook.