A&S Judging: Mead Criteria / Packaging?

[Mike Baker]

Is there anything approaching a set of standard judging criteria for mead 
and other brewer's / vintner's products in SCA A&S competitions around 
Ansteorra? I haven't seen anything approaching one, but I have yet to enter 
(first batch of mead is happily bubbling now...)

The broader issue of standards for evaluating A&S entries may be something 
that we as Ansteorrans would prefer *not* to accept, such as exemplified by 
the judging criteria in effect for some neighboring kingdoms.  I don't 
particularly want to re-open that particular container of annelidae (can of 
worms), but would like some idea of whether I will be facing purely the 
individual tastes of a specific competition's judging team or comparison to 
some "ideal".

Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra
     currently residing in Barony of the Steppes, Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mike C. Baker                      mbaker at rapp.com
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