Month: November 2023
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The Art of Poetry
“Poetry’s like painting: there are pictures that attract you more nearer to, and others from further away. This needs the shadows, that to be seen in the light, Not fearing the critic’s sharp eye: this pleased once, that, though examined ten thousand times, still pleases.” -Horace There is more than one way to appreciate poetry. …
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The Sake Way
Mashed fruits, left alone for some time, ferment themselves. Natural yeast already present in their juices consume readily available sugar to make alcohol and gas. Grains, unlike fruit juices however, lock their sugars in starches. In order to ferment grains, their starch chains need to be unpacked and then digested into sugars by enzymes. The…
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Pomegranate Wine
To have a pomegranate tree in the garden is to be delighted in its beauty all year. Among the first to bloom for summertime, the tree lades itself in bright red blossoms, as eye-catching as a fiery goblet upon the mantelpiece of the garden. By midsummer, flowers slowly swell into green orbs fattening up atop…
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Mead
Mead is fermented honey water. Because honey is mostly constituted of a supersaturated solution of sugar glucose and fructose, mead can have as much alcohol as wine or more. Unlike cider, mead already carries an overt honey tone. Fermentation coaxes out its other floral and fruity aromas, reminiscing the flower nectar that bees feed upon. …
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