{"id":2090,"date":"2018-11-09T21:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T04:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2018-11-09T22:01:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T05:01:28","slug":"bar-coaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/?p=2090","title":{"rendered":"Bar Coaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have my own bar coasters!  I don’t know why, but this seems so much fun.  I was fortunate enough to have a few beers reviewed on The Brewing Network’s Dr. Homebrew<\/a> podcast from which I won a gift certificate to GrogTag<\/a>.  After looking at the various products I settled on getting bar coasters.  I spent way too much time thinking about this.  I think I received the gift card in February and then thought about it for a good six months.  When I actually sat down to make something I spent several nights working on various designs.  In the end I settled on a somewhat modern theme loaded things with Easter eggs about my background.  Can you find everything?<\/p>\n

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I will have to say when I sent this to get printed I suspected the print quality wouldn’t be that great. Much to my surprise everything looks fantastic. Below is a photo of the real coaster<\/p>\n

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And finally here are all the easter eggs exposed<\/p>\n

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  1.  ViaSat-2<\/a>: The last satellite I help build at Boeing. I helped design several of the unique digital payload units. <\/li>\n
  2. Silhouette of Engineer Mountain<\/a> as seen from Purgatory<\/a>:  Purgatory is where I grew up skiing<\/li>\n
  3. Iron Cross 360 with a grab:  I’m still trying to land my dream trick from Tommy Mosley’s 1998 gold medal Olympic run<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. A Zia symbol: New Mexico state symbol as a look back to where I was born and raised<\/li>\n
  5. Delta Chi: My college fraternity <\/li>\n
  6. A pull down circuit: A reflection of my EE background. Also this is a variant of what I designed into my future brewstand controller<\/li>\n
  7. My family:  two boys, my wife, and I<\/li>\n
  8. Palm Trees:  These are the plam trees that could be seen from our old Hermosa Beach balcony<\/li>\n
  9. NMSU:  where I attended undergrad<\/li>\n
  10. Standford:  where I completed my masters’ degree  <\/li>\n
  11. My mash paddle:  Not really and Easter egg, but this corner got charred one brew session when I left it too close to the burner and later cut it off<\/li>\n
  12. Norte Dame!!!!!<\/li>\n
  13. Soccer ball:  I’ve been playing since a kid, still play, and am having fun teaching the boys to play<\/li>\n
  14. Abbey of St. Peter in Oudenburg<\/a>: Abbey founded by St. Arnold<\/a>, commonly referred to as the brewer’s saint<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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