The Hydrogen Project

Event Notices:
- September 5th - Test Pattern Ryuichi Sakamoto (tentative) on WZBC - 6PM
- September 5th - Radioscotvoid and MKB at Gulu Gulu Cafe Salem - 8:30 PM
- September 26th - guest DJ Carl Schmidt 10PM
- October 24th - Test Pattern Thomas Dolby WZBC - 6PM

10:06PM Peter Gabriel "Shosoloza" from "I Don't Remember" on Charisma
10:10PM Paul Winter "Dance of Gaia" from "Missa Gaia" on Living Music
10:14PM Marvin Gaye "Got to Give It Up" from "Live at the London Palladium" on MOTOWN
10:25PM 0 (Mika Vainio) "U-bahn" from "Oleva" on Sahko
10:30PM Portishead "Small" from "Third" on Island
10:37PM Alva Noto "u_09-0" from "Unitxt" on Raster-noton
10:41PM Anders Ilar "Icarus and Pegasus" from "Sworn" on Level Records
10:46PM Ellen Allien "Zauber" from "Sool" on bpitch
10:50PM Akiko Kiyama "Let Me Burn Your Book" from "7 Years" on District Of Corruption
11:00PM Wareika Hill Sounds "Jamaica is Reggae Land" from "Wareika Hill Sounds" on Honest Jon's
11:06PM Maynard Ferguson "Primal Scream" from "Strange Jazz" on Albion
11:12PM Golden Palominos "Gun / Little Suicides (Brown Stain Walls, Red Jelly Corners)" from "No Thought, No Breath, No Eyes, No Heart (The Pure Remix EP)" on Restless
11:22PM Lou Reed & John Cale "A Dream" from "Songs for Drella" on Sire
11:29PM Sun Ra & His Arkestra "Nature Boy" from "Some Blues, But Not the Kind That's Blue" on Atavistic
11:37PM Signal "Naplapa" from "Robotron" on Raster-noton
11:47PM Kirk Degiorgio "I Do Not Exist (B12 Remix)" from "I Do Not Exist" on B12
11:54PM Discodeine "Joystick" from "Joystick" on Dirty
12:00AM Timeline "Time Sensitive" from "Return of the Dragons" on Underground Resistance
12:08AM Pan Sonic "Pakoisvoima / Fugalforce" from "Kesto (234.48:4)" on Mute
12:12AM Jeff Mills "Condor to Mallorca" from "Waveform Transmissions Vol 3" on Tresor
12:17AM Jeff Mills "Life Cycles" from "Waveform Transmissions Vol 3" on Tresor
12:21AM Kangding Ray "Quarante" from "Automne Fold" on Raster-noton
12:24AM Kangding Ray "Altiz" from "Automne Fold" on Raster-noton
12:30AM Kangding Ray "Parallel" from "Automne Fold" on Raster-noton
12:33AM Kangding Ray "World Within Words" from "Automne Fold" on Raster-noton
12:38AM Kangding Ray "Epoque" from "Automne Fold" on Raster-noton
12:41AM Klaus Schulze and Lisa Gerrard "Liquid Coincidence 7" from "Farscape" on Synthetic Symphony
12:55AM Daniel Gardner "Under the Shower Tower" from "Under the Shower Tower" on Thinner
01:02AM Yellow Magic Orchestra "Absolute Ego Dance" from "Solid State Survivor" on Alfa

Total yield: 1 64oz growler, plus 38 12oz longnecks, making 4 gallons of beer out of 5 gallons in the fermenter.

So the stout was probably ready to bottle on Tuesday, but I hadn't had a chance to even check until tonight. Unfortunately, I am an idiot and forgot to check to see if I had enough bottle caps before getting ready to start bottling. Every brewing store in the area was already closed for the night, and I only had enough caps to fill my growler plus 12 longnecks. Later this morning we are heading up to New Hampshire until Sunday, but for some reason, I decided against closing everything back up until then and bottling what I could tonight.

After filling the bottles, I cleaned out my primary fermenter and filled it from the bottling bucket, reset the airlock, and sealed the bucket. Hopefully this won't screw the whole thing up. But you know, don't worry.

FG: 1.018

Starting off with a FRANKENMIX.

10:21PM Lacuna Coil "Enjoy the Silence" from "Karmacode" on Century
10:26PM Julee Cruise and Supa DJ Dimtry "Only Us (Chunky but Funky Remix)" from "Leaves from the Tree" on Vitamin
10:32PM Mychael Danna "Red Hibiscus on Skin" from "Kama Sutra - A Tale of Love" on Tvt
10:34PM Tool "Cesaro Summability" from "Aenima" on VOLCANO
10:36PM Massive Attack "Karmacoma" from "Protection" on Virgin
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I had bought an Irish stout kit a few weeks ago and decided to try making it into a chocolate stout. (at my wife's request!) The numerous recipes I found online mentioned adding Hershey's cocoa powder to the boil for 10 minutes, so I did just that (8 tbsp).

Some notes so far:
- OG was 1.034, but the wort was pretty warm, so it's likely higher in reality.
- fermentation took a while to start, probably because the wort was still warm. I need a wort chiller.
- The stupid rubber grommet for the fermentation lock popped out as I was putting the lock in, so I had to fish t out of the bottom of the fermenter. Argh! I should buy a pile so if that happens again, I can just pop in a new one and dig the old out of the sediment (and throw it away).
- The only hops used were at the very beginning of the boil!

I didn't take measurements of these two, but here's a little history on my brewing:
- batch 1 was an Irish Red Ale from a kit put together by Blackstone Valley Brewing Supply. It had 3.3 pounds of liquid Malt Extract (unhopped), 1 pound of wheat malt extract, Cascade hops as both bittering hops and aroma hops, Irish moss as a clarifying agent. No idea what the OG and FG were, as I didn't write them down :(
- batch 2 was an amber ale, which was basically the same as the Irish red above, except for an additional set of barley grains that were steeped before the boil. Cluster hops were the bittering hops and Green Mountain hops were aroma hops. Same deal on the gravity. I think the malt extracts were different types, but still unhopped.

This Wednesday, August 6, I will be playing at the Phoenix Landing in Cambridge, opening up for Pat Fontes. 19+ please (why 19, anyway?). This is my first time playing at the Phoenix and I am rather excited. The address is: 512 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA. Nearest public transit is Central Square on the Red Line or numerous busses. (Hint: even though a lot of 4xx busses go to 'Central Square,' that's in Lynn, not Cambridge)

As a preview for Wednesday, I packed all the records I expect to play and let them all out last night. I am still holding onto some surprises, so don't think that listening to this gets you off the hook for showing up Wednesday! There was also a pretty big pile of new stuff that came in over the past two weeks and thus the recording is a little longer than usual Playlist after the break. Enjoy!

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