The Hydrogen Project

09:55PM Byetone "Grand Style" from "Death of a Typographer" on Raster-noton
10:00PM Kraftwerk "mitternacht | showroom dummies" from "Live 1975"
10:09PM Wareika Hill Sounds "Jamaica is Reggae Land" from "Wareika Hill Sounds" on Honest Jon's
10:19PM Murmur "Discovery of Mother Voidness" from "Fermata" on Backporch Revolution
10:19PM Akiko Kiyama "Isotope" from "7 Years" on District Of Corruption
10:25PM Tanzmuzik "Mokha Coruba" from "Version Citie Hi-Lights" on Sublime
10:34PM Anthony Shakir "Random Shuffle" from "Lost & Found 1" on Dust Science
10:43PM Thomas Brinkmann "Momoklick" from "Opensource Code" on Source
10:49PM Monolake "Occam" from "Hongkong Remastered" on Monolake
10:55PM Arne Weinberg "From Consumption to Enslavement" from "Romantic Machinery" on Headspace
11:16PM Anders Ilar "Path to the Sky" from "sworn" on Level Records
11:22PM Daniel Gardner "Under the Shower Tower" from "Under the Shower Tower" on Thinner
11:30PM Spiral Into the Storm "Camera Culture" from "A Futile Veneer" on Decibel Palace
11:36PM Lee Douglas "New York Story" from "New York Story" on Rong Music
11:41PM Lowfish "The Bite that Bleeds" from "Frozen & Broken" on Noise Factory Records
11:54PM Glimpse "Elephant Skins" from "Elephant Skins EP" on Leftroom
12:10AM Kevin Saunderson Feat. Inner City "Good Life (Mathew Jonson's Acid Mix)" from "History Elevate 4" on KMS
12:12AM Bong Ra "Eenzaam Sterven Wij Allen" from "Soldaat Van Oranje" on Sublight
12:17AM Inner City "Praise (Future Sound of London Conceptual)" from "Praise Edition 1" on Ten
12:32AM Kakaka "Ka" from "Kakaka First" on Reel Musiq
12:41AM Klaus Schulze and Lisa Gerrard "Farscape I" from "Farscape" on Synthetic Symphony

Bottled the gruit ale last night. FG was around 1.010 before priming. Wish I had the OG! Oops! I couldn't find my priming sugar, so I used KreamyX from the Saison kit in my basement instead! I hope that turns out well.

The herbs were added directly to the boil. This is not a problem except that I also failed to sparge before adding the wort to the fermenter. With hops this isn't a big problem, as they settle to the bottom of the container, but heather tips and yarrow float! This clogged my racking cane and also got stuck in the bottle filler valve. When your bottle filler is stuck open you end up spilling beer!

Also, on 's suggestion, I sanitized all the bottles in the dishwasher, on the high heat wash and high heat rinse cycle. I had 37 bottles after discarding quite a few that wouldn't come clean, in both 12oz and 16oz sizes. This was exactly enough for the 5 gallon batch minus the sediment.