Brewing & Vintning

Brewing and vintning includes beers, wines, ale, cider, lager, and mead-making. The technology and techniques are documented, tested, and yes, tasted as well. This is an art, and modern techniques can still be used for learning.

This can encompasses drinks like mead, a wine made from honey; Kumis, a Mongolian drink fermented from mare's milk; various beers, ales, cordials, wines, ciders and non-alcoholic beverages as well (like the Middle Eastern vinegar-based Sekanjabin to the Scandinavian birch beer).

Sounds great! Where do I learn more?

The Company of the Golden Cask can tell you more! This is the brewers & vintners guild in the Kingdom of Meridies of the SCA.

http://brewers.meridies.org/conc/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goldencask/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/134431059961439

Lord William Hawkmore is the Butler (president). You can also see Lord Sebastian locally; he is the secretary.

Here are some links with info, as well:

Brewing & Vinting - http://www.scademo.com/demo.brewing.php

Medieval and Renaissance Brewing http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/brewing.html

Interest Groups - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sca-meridian-brewers/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sca_brew/

Friends of An Tir Brewers and Lovers of Brewing -- http://www.facebook.com/groups/386541601368069/

Insulae Draconis Brewing Guild - https://www.facebook.com/groups/281164070616/

Not limited to Drachenwald, but a great place to trade recipies, ask for tips, and discuss brewing, with a focus on Period styles

Brewing & Vintning Questions -- see the files section in the Artisans Collaboration of Meridies facebook group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/314196732021880/files/

A collection of related emails -- http://www.florilegium.org/files/BEVERAGES/idxbeverages.html