![]() ![]() So, this year, I tweaked my target recipe, shooting for pretty much what I got out of that first peach wine batch, and got some cool label art to put on the bottle.Īnyway, I guess the moral of the story is something about mistakes, and also that one should not strive above one’s appointed place in the world, lest the gods take notice and strike down with a mighty wine-fist those audacious enough to try something new. I sure did hate having to blend down that first batch though. The final blend ended up decent it wasn’t one of my best batches but it was a solid wine. The solution I ended up with was to get the last few peaches I could for the season and making a weaker peach wine to blend the first batch with and hit my target. I panicked at first – this was a full barrel of wine, and it was so far off from what I was shooting for that it could even be called a mistake. As it turned out, my guess was way off and I ended up making the wine far stronger than I had intended, but was that ever some good wine. Peach wine I had never done before, so I made a guess at the sugar content of the juice based on some research and measurements, and based the recipe on that guess. I was able to squeeze in beet wine of course, because that’s sort of my thing, as well as peach wine and a batch of raspberry wine at the very tail end of the season. When I first opened this place it was the end of summer and the end of harvest season. “But why,” you ask, “is it called Icarus?” I’m glad you asked, there’s a good story that goes with it, or at least I think it’s a good story. You must restart your daemon after importing an egg if you are using 0.7. If you want a new nest you need to create it before importing the egg. Select what nest you want to put the egg in. Browse to the json file you saved earlier. It’s good to get the input of someone else’s perspective in creative undertakings. In your panel go to the Nests section in the admin part of the panel. I never really made the connection between Icarus and the moth with the flame. This one is by Kari Siler, here in Laramie, and man that turned out really nice too. For these strong wines, I’ve decided to commission label art as well. It’s got plenty of peach flavor and some spicy peppery stuff going on as well, so it’s really a lot more full tasting that just peaches. It’s a strong peach wine and it’s pretty tasty. And as William Empson pointed out about the myth of Oedipus, whatever Oedipus’ problem was, it wasn’t an ‘Oedipus complex’ in the Freudian sense of that phrase, because the mythical Oedipus was unaware that he had married his own mother (rather than being attracted to her in full knowledge of who she was).I meant to write this post when it was current, but late is better than never, right? I bottled Icarus the other day (December 16). Similarly, Narcissus, in another famous Greek myth, actually shunned other people before he fell in love with his own reflection, and yet we still talk of someone who is obsessed with their own importance and appearance as being narcissistic. (Or, as the Bible bluntly puts it, the love of money is the root of all evil.) The moral of King Midas, of course, was not that he was famed for his wealth and success, but that his greed for gold was his undoing: the story, if anything, is a warning about the dangers of corruption that money and riches can bring. ![]() However, as this last example shows, we often employ these myths in ways which run quite contrary to the moral messages the original myths impart. We describe a challenging undertaking as a Herculean task, and speak of somebody who enjoys great success as having the Midas touch. So we describe somebody’s weakness as their Achilles heel, or we talk about the dangers of opening up Pandora’s box. The Greek myths are over two thousand years old – and perhaps, in their earliest forms, much older – and yet many stories from Greek mythology, and phrases derived from those stories, are part of our everyday speech. ![]()
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