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Cider Update and Halloween two-fer!
I love Halloween. Not just the "dressing up and going to parties" part, but pumpkin carving, decorating, cooking, and the general spirit (*salutes Gen. Spirit*).
This Halloween day, I did something I've never done in my the previous thirty!
My roommate Chris came to my room as I slowly awoke, and reminded me I had asked for his help juicing apples from the orchard I went to last week.
He brought down the juicer that lay dormant atop our fridge for months, and showed me how it works. Then, we washed, cut, and juiced the apples. collecting the pulp and running it through once more to really get all the juicy goodness.
Chris cross-cutting Matsu apples. (See what I did there?)
Pink Ladies
OH YEAH!
We ate some dried pulp, but we should have made a pie...
The finished product had some interesting stratification
All told, the experience took less than an hour, but it had a very distinct, fall, Halloween vibe. Once last week's cider is bottled, I will add some champagne yeast to this batch and ferment it too! I still haven't decided if I want to pasteurize it, or leave it raw and funky. Your opinion is most welcome! After the juicing, I worked on my costume, and met friends for a night of delicious treats, keeping the tricks to a polite minimum. Naturally, this would not be much of a Halloween post without some pictures, so please enjoy the following:
I'm OLD GREGG! For me the hardest part was adding a third "G" to to my name.
Sailor Jupiter, The Most Interesting Bat-Man in the Word, and Pizza Rat!
Kim Jong Un, Papa Smurf, and Miss Argentina
Showing off my "downstairs mix-up"
I hope your Halloween was as rad as mine! Until next year!
In describing the balance of Sake flavors you probably already know there are sweet Sake, like Nigori ("Cloudy") and dry Sake, such as Onigoroshi ("Demon Slayers"). In between, on a scale called the "Sake Meter Value", are semi-sweet and semi-dry Sake. More about that here.
In between that, you will find neutral Sake.
Neutral Sake taste neither sweet nor dry, but this does not mean they have no flavor. Far from it; Neutral Sake possess both characteristics - acids and unfermented sugars (as well as esters and phenolic flavors), in a balancing act that walks a tightrope right down the center of your tongue, engaging more of your palate than a sweet or dry Sake might.
Part 4
SANDAN-JIKOMI (Part 1 is HERE) Their village demolished, Sakamai - the people of Tanbo - were tortured and twisted in strange ways, physically combined with tiny hive-minded creatures called Koji. As the two became one, these new "Koji-Mai" learned from the Koji's memories that their towering and unstoppable alien captors were "The Creators" - an alpha race who designed and cultivated all they had ever experienced, just for this. But these answers only begat more questions:
What would happen next? To what end was any of this happening at all? When would it be over? Would the Koji-Mai ever see the Sakamai they were taken from in their last steel prison? Even if they did, would their families even recognize them after yet another transformation? As usual, the Koji provided soothing thoughts of complacency: "All is a cycle The Creators have planned for. We are not the first or even the thousandth, and we will not be the last. What comes is new to us, b…
You spot a small Sake section while shopping for wine. You know enough about wine styles to tell a Riesling is sweet, a Merlot dry, but what about Sake? Can Sake even be sweet or dry? Do you know your preference? When shopping for Sake, you might look for something you tasted at a restaurant. If you can't find that, you grab whatever is cheapest, or something priced in the middle with an appealing label. Sound like you?
Everyone, myself included, has shopped this way for some kind of specialty item. For Sake, this means consideration of sweet and dry becomes an afterthought, and you may end up with something terrible - or worse: something great that just wasn't for you!
To help you judge dry and sweet, Japan developed a Sake Meter Value, or "SMV" (Nihon Shudo, in Japanese). The scale is simple: any positive (+) number would mean dry, zero neutral, and negative (-) numbers sweet. Turns out, that scale was too simple... Japanese importer and distributor JFC, created …
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