The Hydrogen Project

FG: 1.025

That's a little high. I probably should not have racked to secondary at all. Every smells saison-y. There was some stuff floating in the beer. I am wondering if that was just yeast or some other wild organism that made it into the fermenter. I'll know in a little while once I crack open a bottle. I ended up with only about 4.5 gallons total yield, likely due to racking loss.

For an early Christmas, my parents bought me another amber ale kit. I will use this as batch 6 instead of the Free Beer project, since I don't have the equipment to do all-grain brewing.

I did replace my hydrometer; the new one has a built-in thermometer too! I am also receiving a secondhand stir plate for making yeast starters tomorrow, hopefully.

Irrespective of your opinion of Flash, the following situation has arisen now that Flash 10 is out, and it bothers me greatly. A bunch of websites look at the Flash version string in order to figure out which version is installed. This string looks something like 'Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12' and is accessible from JavaScript as navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"] or similar. Some websites requiring a minimum version of Flash perform their version checking by finding the dot in the version string and then converting that character to an integer. Now that Flash 10 is out, browsers with Flash 10 installed are completely barred from some offenders. Others may at least allow a user to bypass the version detection. Of course the proper thing to do is to match against a regular expression like "\b(\d+)\." and use a backreference, which you can very well do in JavaScript (RegExp.$1 in this case).

Last night, and I made a super awesome pizza. The dough was made with Mr. Hotel's recipe, using an Ipswich Winter Ale as the beer.

First step was to put 3.5 cups of flour, 1 tablespoon of baking powder, about 1 tsp of salt, and a bottle of beer into the stand mixer bowl. Once the dough was fully mixed, I placed the bowl in the fridge (why? the recipe says so) and started making the topping. I sliced half a package of white mushrooms and sauteed them in olive oil. I then started gradually adding spinach (about 5 oz) until that wilted enough that it all fit in the pan. After that, in went about half a cup of ricotta cheese. Once that liquefied, I took the dough out of the refrigerator. pounded it to holy hell and sauced it, then I covered it with the ricotta/spinach/mushroom conglomerate. Baked at 475°F on the bottom of the oven for about 15 minutes, the crust was just about perfect. I think next time I do pizza, I will bump up the temp even higher for more crunch on the bottom.

Tonight I racked the saison to secondary, as the recipe recommended. Those keeping score will notice that I only have a single fermenting vessel. What I did was rack it to the bottling bucket temporarily while I cleaned and sanitized the fermenter, then racked the beer back to the fermenter. The recipe said to get rid of the sediment. I hope I didn't clear all the yeast out of the wort. I need to get the brewing store soon to pick up a new hydrometer so I can test that things are moving along properly.

No recording, I'm afraid. Next show is December 19!

10:03PM Forrest McCullough "Part 1" from "Flight F-I-N-A-L" on Word
10:03PM Yellow Magic Orchestra "Solid State Survivor" from "Solid State Survivor" on Alfa
10:08PM Ellen Allien "Drama Society Remix" from "Down" on BPitch Control
10:13PM Ellen Allien "Fuckaloop Remix" from "Down" on BPitch Control
10:18PM New Order "Blue Monday (Andrea Mix by Jam and Spoon)" from "Dubstars" on Echo Beach
10:26PM Modul "The Black" from "Acid Reborn vol. 1" on Fine Cut Bodies
10:33PM Pedro Cali "Walk Away" from "Retofuturism EP" on Melodika
10:39PM Ruoho Ruotsi "Hmmm (Gys Remix)" from "Hmmm" on Def'child Productions
10:46PM Matt Chester "Broken Shores" from "Broken Shores EP" on Melodika
10:51PM Ruoho Ruotsi "Tants Doll (Mike Uzzi and Ben Recht Remix)" from "Tants Doll" on Def'child Productions
10:56PM Dubloner "Impact Dub" from "Isaac Haile Selassie Meets..." on Def'child Productions
11:03PM Saian Supa Crew "Intro" from "KLR" on Source
11:03PM Saian Supa Crew "Raz de Maree" from "KLR" on Source
11:10PM James Priestley & Dan Berkson "Chariots" from "Chariots" on Simple
11:16PM Flare "Dir.r" from "Dir.r Remixes" on Sublime
11:23PM Aztec Mystic "Orlando 'Fix' Voorn Mix" from "Aguila" on Underground Resistance
11:39PM The Mole "live" from "live"
12:12AM ? "para" from "para"
12:15AM Dominik Eulberg "Gasthof "Zum Satten Bass" (Heimische Gefilde Edit)" from "Hemische Gefilde" on Traum Schallplatten
12:20AM Prosumer "The Craze" from "Famous when Dead 6" on Playhouse
12:29AM Heaven and "Scarlet Woman" from "Sweeter As The Years Roll By" on Staubgold
12:33AM Wackie's "Super Dub" from "Jamaica Super Dub Session" on Wackie's
12:39AM Anal Solvent "Anal Solvent Sucks" from "Wild n Free" on Soleilmoon
12:39AM Akiko Kiyama "I Was Weak in the Knees" from "7 Years" on District Of Corruption
12:44AM Barry Adamson "The Snowball Effect" from "the negro inside me" on Mute
12:49AM Coil "A Warning from The Sun / Untitles / Amethyst Deceivers (Live in Europe 2001)" from "Moon's Milk (in Four Phases)" on Eskaton
12:54AM Craig Armstrong "Laura's Theme" from "The Space Between Us"