Festival Challenge
My Dear and Fellow Brewers, Greetings!
As part of the prize for winning the Brewers’ Challenge at Festival Last, it is my privilege to set the topic for the next challenge.
It is: Something Red.
This could be a cider pressed from red apples, a red wine, and Irish red ale, a redcurrant melomel, or something else that is conceivably, and defensibly, red.
I look forward to seeing what brews come from this, and hope to sample them at Festival Next.
At Innilgard, this 31st of May, I remain,
Padraig, Journeyman of the Guild.
Southron Gaard Yule Tasting
This fabulous Yule event (13-16 July) will host the first guild tasting in the Crescent Isles since Canterbury Faire. Bring your best winter warmers to stave off the Southerly chill.
The site is, once again, the Raincliff Youth Camp just inland from sunny Pleasant Point. There are 72 beds in 12 bunk rooms available, as well as camping sites (some powered). Enjoy feasting, fighting, archery, dancing, and drinking all under the watchful eye of the elusive Pied Piper of Hamelin.
New Clerk elected
As of Festival 2023 our new guild clerk is Lord Dauid De Cochrane of Southron Gaard. The South Island of New Zealand has a very active brewers guild contingent. The tasting meeting at Canterbury Faire regularly gets over 60 attendees and 30 or 40 brews to taste. Dauid will be our first guild clerk to hale from the Crescent Isles.
November 2020.
Good greeting, Brewers, Vinters and Imbibers of Lochac! My, what strange times we find ourselves in. I hope this missive finds the members well, as we come blinking back into the daylight in the hope of some semblance of normality.
I wish to bring to notice of the membership some happenings within the Guild.
Kotek Torzhoskoi will be conducting a Guild tasting on the Thursday, 12/11/2020 after opening Court at Golden Flight 2020, being held in Southron Gaard. I would commend Guild members attend and support Kotek if able. If you are not a member, but are going to the event, please join in and enjoy yourself with the largess of some of the Kingdoms best brewers display their craft.
For those attending Golden Flight and seeking advancement in the Guild’s ranking system, please speak to Kotek for forms.
Staying in the Islands, Canterbury Faire is approaching, on 24-30 January, 2021. The Guild normally has a strong showing at this event, and I enjoyed myself the time I was able to attend. We are seeking a volunteer or two to run the tastings at this event, and provide a brief run down to myself afterwards. If you think you would be interested, please contact me.
As there was no Rowany Festival, there was no Guild Meeting. If we are able to meet again at Rowany Festival in 2021, I would hope to retire from this role and return to my estates. As such, please consider volunteering to become the next Guild Clerk. If you are interested, again, please contact me to discuss what this entails.
Also, I would like to thank Master Drake Morgan for his session on Discord in May on Basic Beer and Ale. This channel is available if anyone was thinking of running any classes, or just starting a discussion.
Again, I wish our members well, and hope to catch up soon, and raise a glass in company as events recommence.
Yours in service,
Iames Douglas.
Guild clerk.
In Strathcorbie
From the lands of the Wiradjuri
Rowany Festival Guild Meeting
Rowany,Canty, Fields of Gold, oh my!
Greetings fellow brewers. I have been travelling this Kingdom, and seen the wondrous activity of our brewing community. At Fields of Gold, held in Politarchopolis in early December, Lord Bjorn organised an area for any guild members to present their wares to the Kingdom. Ably assisted by Jochen Schwabe, who provided a fantastic “hole in the wall”, the event was well provisioned by Bjorn’s meads and ciders, Lord Aymer’s cider, and my own yppocras and beers, as well as Bjorns snacks. I am looking forward to what we can put together for next FoG, and, sorry about the “appley” beer and if I missed any contributors.
From FoG, my family joined the caravan and headed east, to Canterbury Faire, an event most splendid and worth the journey. I was welcomed by our fellow brewers with open arms and proffered bottles, and enjoyed the spirits tasting held on the Monday of that event. Many thanks to the organisers of the tastings, in particular Lord Maximilian and Lord Kotek. It was good to see the enthusiasm for the brewing arts, and the amazing display of wares offered up for tasting.
At this event, two of our number, being Mistress Aveline and Lord Damien had their wares examined, and were granted elevation to the rank of Journeymen of the Guild. Congratulations on achieving this, and I look forward to tasting your work in the future.
Again, with rankings, and after reading back through correspondence received, three members of the Guild have been added to the number of Apprentice, being Kotek Torzhoskoi, Howard of Gildenwick and Sir Master Vitale Giustiniani. My apologise for not attending to this sooner, and congratulations on your apprenticeship.
Finally, Rowany Festival draws nigh, and as is the tradition, Master Padraig, who won last years brewing competition, and set the rules for this year’s brewers comp, to be judged at the Guild Meeting at Rowany this Easter. His conditions for entry are as follows: “a dark ale or beer, to whatever recipe or redaction the entrant favours so long as it come from grain”. I, for one, am looking forward to see what is offered at the tasting this Festival, and look forward to meeting more members of the Guild. Once the date and timing of the meeting is confirmed, I will advise in all the usual places.
Your servant,
James Douglas
In Strathcorbie, on the feast of St Victor and Claudian, in the Reign of Eva and Felix
Guild Tasting at Canterbury Faire.
The Guild tasting for Canterbury Faire 2018 will be held at 4pm on the Tuesday of Faire in the Half Circle amphitheatre unless the weather is inhospitable, in which case other arrangements will be made.
Members are asked to limit their entries to two each, and we expect the meeting to run for nearly two hours so BYO water and snacks.
Bring out your Smalls for Canterbury Faire
The Guild competition for Canterbury Faire 2018 is “small’s” being low alcohol drinks, such as small ale, small mead or fermented soft drinks. Bonus points will given to those who make sufficient quantities to have it put “on tap” at the Mangy Mongol for the populace.
The competition will be judged during the A&S display on the Tuesday morning of Faire. The judging form that will be used can be found at https://brewers.lochac.sca.org/files/2015/01/Brewers-Guild-judging-form.pdf Entrants should provide a sample of their brew and documentation to the judges by 10am sharp.
Online judging form and Guild Advancement
My Dear and Fellow Brewers, Greetings!
After much toil by Maximilian, which followed a motion made by Master Rurik at the Festival AGM, we now have a simple online form by which one can submit a request for an advancement in the Guild. The link can be found here and should be pretty self-explanatory.
For those interested in grading the brews, please get in touch with Maximilian and he can arrange for you to be added to the system.
Additionally, at the tasting that occurred at Midwinter Coronation, Maximilian submitted a Cider that was judged as drinkable by divers people present; I know this by looking at the online form. As such I would have it known that Maximilian is to be an Apprentice in the Guild, and that I look forward to further work from Apprentice Maximilian.
In Cerevisio Felicitas,
Padraig Lowther, Journeyman and Clerk of the Guild
At Innilgard on the Feast of St Hormisdas, Steffan and Branwen being in their second reign.
New Apprentices at Pencampwr
Congratulations to the eight new apprentices from Aneala and Abertridwr who successfully entered the ranks of the guild at Pencampwr weekend. They supplied in the region of 40 brews and nearly broke Guildmaster Drake’s liver. Well done you guys!