Guild Administrators

Clerk

The Head of the brewers guild is call the Clerk. This is both a period term and causes less confusion with with the Peerage orders who use the terms Mistress or Master.

I hope to spend my tenure as Clerk facilitating much sharing of our noble Art through collegia, tastings, and dispensaries (bars and taverns) at events, and assisting others in doing the same. Contact me here.

I have some form of experience in most all aspects of brewing. I have brewed from extract, from grain, from honey and other syrups, from juice, and from whole fruit, pressed by hand or mechanical methods. I have brewed beers, wines, ciders, meads, and liqueurs. I have done full boils and simple dry hops. I have incorporated infusions of fruits, spices, and other botanicals before, during, and after fermentation. I also worked for most of a year at a homebrew supply store and have some experience with the variety of equipment available to the home brewer at different scales.

I have been an SCA member since AS 50. I have previously served as Reeve, Seneschal, and then Registrar of the College of St Crispin, Alefounder Herald and Reeve of the Barony of Mordenvale, and Rocket Herald, Deputy (Submissions) to the Crux Australis Principal Herald of Lochac, after serving a year as deputy to Rocket. I have stewarded 22 SCA events, and been logistically involved in 31 others. I have been the recipient of the Silver Feather of St Malachy, the Green Feather, Unfurled Lymphad, Jade Annulet, and a Baronial Cypher of Mordenvale, the Award of Arms, Golden Tear, Vox Coronae, Star and Lily, Silver Pegasus, and a Royal Cypher of Lochac.

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Mundanely I hold some qualifications from the Institute of Brewing and Distilling of the Guilds and City of London (what the Brewers Guild of London turned into) and have worked in the homebrew industry in sales, teaching, product development and manufacture.

My brewing mainly focuses on meads, fruit wines, ciders and liqueurs and I have also recently started dabbling in gruit ales. I only make period drinks and have never, ever, made anything from a commercial kit. Ugh… I have taught a series of basic brewing workshops in Stormhold and am currently running a similar series here in Innilgard. If you ask me I love to share my knowledge and if I don’t know the answer to something I will help you research it or direct you to the person who is most likely to know it.

I live in Southron Gaard (mundanely Christchurch, New Zealand) and have been involved with the SCA for nearly 35 years. I dabble in a great many SCA arts including wine making, distilling and perfumery, costuming, cosmetics, cooking, painting, stained glass and too many others to name. I have a reputation for giving anything a go, once. I’m also a dab hand at research, know way too much about the crusader period and recently authored (with Rurik and a gentleman from the Midrealm) a new Compleat Anachronist on Medieval Brewing #171. Contact her here.

I have also, as a past Clerk of the Guild, agreed to serve as one of the Moderators, and trust that all who post do so in such a manner as to grow their Renown and that of the Guild, and not to engage in such Vile Activities as would warrant Censure. I pray thee, Good Cousins, we are all here for the Love of the Art and a Good Time, so we should maintain the List thusly.

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Previous Clerks of the Guild:

Previous officer positions include Reeve of Atenveldt’s College of St Felix, Captain of Archers followed by Baronial Seneschal for Southron Gaard, and Co-Steward of Canterbury Faire. You may have bumped into him at Festival once or twice. Brewer of the occasional ale, a refined Elderflower wine, and distiller of a somewhat controversial Balkan Slivovitz. Occasional archery marshal, instigator of funky dance moves in the Barony of Aneala (and elsewhere), and slayer of Floof, the Dreaded Cute Fluffy Bunny of Tir Ysgithr. Mundanely, David Marsden has a graduate degree in Viticulture & Oenology from Lincoln University, and three years’ experience working in the Marlborough wine industry. There is not much about Sauvignon Blanc he doesn’t know, though he by far prefers the mystery and elegance of Pinot Noir.

I have brewed for 11 years now, and have experience with ciders, meads, beer and yppocras, which the locals refer to as “liquid hot cross buns”. I hope to experiment more with sour beers, and of course, thick stouts.

I reside in the north of the Shire of Bordescros (Wagga Wagga, NSW), and mundanely am a public servant. I hope to continue with the growth of numbers and quality of the produce of this wonderful Guild.

I have an avid interest in brewing, and have experience with ciders, meads, fruit wines and a slight acquaintance with beer.  I hope to further that acquaintance, as well as move into grape wines and “medicinal” brews in the future.

I am currently based in the Barony of Rowany (Sydney, NSW), and mundanely have a PhD in physics. Thus I seek to learn the science of how brewing works, so I can then practice the art of how to make it work and therefore produce brews to further the Art and Mysteries of the Guild.

I currently live in Politarchopolis (Canberra, Australia) where I brew for local events and other events that I am invited to. I am one of the founding members of the Mordenvale Company of Brewers and brew for various taverns around the area.

My current brewing interest include reproduction of Dark Ages brewing practices and Malt based beverages production from the end of the Dark Ages through to the beginning of the industrial revolution. Of particular interest to me is the commercial role of brewers in Tudor England.

My other interests in the SCA include working on my setup for Dark Ages camping, blacksmithing (I am not very good at it) and learning to sew. I also have an interest in the role of the Church at the parish level in the Middle Ages though this is more related to my mundane Studies.

Mundanely I hold some qualifications from the Institute of Brewing and Distilling of the Guilds and City of London (what the Brewers Guild of London turned into) and have worked in the homebrew industry in sales, teaching, product development and manufacture.