The wife got me some new tap handles for Christmas. They work great with the space available and the new monitor installed. One Fat Tire and one Boulevard Pale Ale. Perfect for the House of Husar pub. Related Posts:Pint Tracker Monitor UpdatesNew Belgium Brewery TourBeer Update: Fat Tire EmptyBeer Update: Fat Tire Beer Update: Fat Tire EmptyTwitter...

Started to rework Pint Tracker tonight to fit the 1024×600 resolution of my 9” monitor I mounted to the taps. Pretty happy so far but I had a few ideas for future updates. For now here is what is happening. For starters the beer leader board and the members leader board are getting an upgrade. Soon it will be displayed as a photo grid with beer totals showing in a sticker-type display. Much more visual that just the text...

Tonight my USB extension cables came from MonoPrice. I was a little skeptical if they would work or not. If you did not know USB has a 16 foot range. If I wanted to mount a monitor by the tap I had to find a way to get way more than 16 feet away from my Mac Mini. The MonoPrice 33′ active USB cable had really good reviews so I ordered three of them. At a price of $10.20 each it is a steal. These could cost you $50 each at a place like...

If you never had the pleasure of having a pint at my place you are not familiar with my tap setup. I bought a quarter oak barrel off ebay a number of year ago. It came from a winery in SoCal. The inside of the barrel is stained with the wine that it contained at one time. The shipping cost me as much at the barrel did. It is solid oak and pretty heavy for only being the top eight inches of a wine barrel. But it has worked out great for...

Last night Justin came over and we worked on his website for a while. We put a new theme on it and then I showed him how to use some of the back end features. We also tested out the Pint Tracker app. I created a fob for Justin so it was ready when he arrived. I now have Pint Tracker running as an AIR app. It is working out great. I have a shortcut down in my dock so it make it really convenient to start and stop Pint Tracker as...