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Thanks Dan! I'm planning to put a section on the main site for SCA-related brewing material, using my links in my booksmarks, and what I've learned in my brief forays into the SCA world (ah, for more free time!).

Vicky - only 11 more days until the Mead Fest!
 
This sounds like an interesting section.

I'm curious about the regimen and requisite training involved in the "Master Brewer" designation within the SCA. I know a couple of folks who were involved with the SCA (at the local Ren Faire in San Berdoo) and they gave me some information that was pretty general so I'm looking for more to fill in the gaps.

Cheers,

Oskaar
 
Dan,

If you get that together, and its okay with you, I'll create the SCA section on Gotmead and put them up in a bunch. I'll also try to get out there over the next couple weeks (between programming bouts on the billiards online store I'm working on) and put up some of the SCA regs for becoming a master brewer and/or Laurel in mead-making.

Also, all y'all, you can get absolutely *scads* of meadmaking mentoring at the big SCA wars, i.e. Estrella War in the west (http://www.estrellawar.org/), and Pennsic War in the east (Pennsylvania in August) at http://www.pennsicwar.org/ .

And, even if all you do is drink of the prodigious amounts of mead that flow at these events, and attend the mead-teaching classes, you'll be overwhelmed and amazed at the proliferation of costumes, people and shopping opportunities for every kind of cool historical thing you can imagine........

Vicky - hoping to go to Pennsic in '85 if I can get the Mead Horde together in time......
 
What do you all want to know about the SCA? I have been active in the SCA for about 16 years. In fact it is one of the reasons that I started making mead and became a commercial mead maker.

in the SCA I am known as Master Fionn Mac Phail OL (Master of the Laurel for brewing).

Anyway, if you need any info I'm your man....
 
LOL....heck, if you need info on *anything* he's your man! I listened to this man talk this weekend, and if he doesn't know, he knows the guy who knows!

Great label on the cider, Mike! Can't wait to buy it here in NC.....

Vicky
 
Hey Mike,

I'm curious about the regimen and requisite training involved in the "Master Brewer" designation within the SCA. I know a couple of folks who were involved with the SCA (at the local Ren Faire in San Berdoo) and they gave me some information that was pretty general so I'm looking for more to fill in the gaps.

From what I've heard they have to show "mastery" of three mead styles and do some public services, and othe various and sundry tasks.

I'd like to know what specifically "mastery" is and what the three mead styles are, and what public services are. It sounds interesting.

Cheers,

Oskaar
 
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