[Hellsgate] A Brag

Michael Ruiz mikethepuma at me.com
Fri Sep 14 14:35:20 PDT 2012


M'lord Stephen it is with your help and willingness to answer my many questions that I was able to start brewing thank you for thinking so highly of me 

Your friend Valentine 

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

William Shakespeare

Humbly confident 
Valentine Culpepper 

On Sep 14, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Branden <twobucksanchange at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Only you good friend could make being a friend sound like I piss gold lol. I enjoy every minute I spend in your company. I don't think there are too many people my lady and I would rather be around. And to clarify I was there for you not the cider just as you were there for me and Micheal during the pas(spelling). So thank you my friend for having a heart larger than anyone I know and that heart being made of gold.
> Your Friend Confidant Taste Tester and Fan,
> Havarr Ericsson 
> 
> Go Team Stephan 
> 
> STEPHEN STEGER <knightslament at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> A tree will only grow and produce when the conditions surrounding it are right. That being said I offer the following; (I am terrible at remembering names SCA or otherwise, so I will be using a mixture of your real names, SCA names which might also be butchered due to period spelling.)
>> 
>> Allow me to start at the beginning with Karen, my lady, who through our combined love of the period and the dream inspired me to have us hand fasted at the Renaissance festival and so put us in direct contact with the man that sold me my first Hard Cider Kit and recipe. Which overtime became altered and altered again over and over. To Karen as well for introducing me to friends who played in other settings and for talking about looking at this dream as something I could live.
>> 
>> To Don Avery who upon showing up in Austin at barony fighter practice asked me if I had been out to Hellsgate when I knew not of its existence, and also introduced me and my debit card to Darkwood Armory.
>> 
>> To Lord Eric and Lady Alexandra, He who welcomed me first  on my first venture to social and has been a good friend ever since. Together, they have opened their hearts and home, helped me with my Gambeson, put my mother in loaner garb for her first event, made her garb for her second, and continue to work with me on mine. The opened their home for all of us and hosted my first brewing class when I was trying to figure out if there would be enough interest for a guild. Both of you have provided advice, encouragement and friendship.
>> 
>> To Master Timur and Mistress Meliscenda, you have both provided encouragement, direction, advice, friendship and mentoring. You’ve made introductions on my behalf and have been a sounding board to others for my works, and provided feedback on what you've heard. You as well have opened your home and selves to each of us. Timur quietly talking to me and working with me. Mel being my own personal cheerleader, although a frequent supply of Oreos may or may not have contributed ;)
>> 
>> Milord Havarr you and your Lady, have provided me with a beautiful friendship and willing, sometimes almost too willing test subjects ;)  You have shown me support, consoled me when upset. Walked, talked and kept me in good company and spirits. Not to mention escorting me to my first contest at Steppes (although in thinking back he may have just been following the Jolly) though it took a bit you got into the brewing
>> 
>> Master Jovian from complete stranger to good friend in like one fell swoop. You’ve been a friend, advisor, devils advocate, and provided vision and thought processes along with ideas of magnitudes I wouldn’t have otherwise considered. You’ve supported and given additional detail to ideas I've come to you about. You’ve made so many introductions for me both in person, in writing, and e-mail that sometimes my head spins without the alcohol influence.
>> 
>> Baron Pug, Mistress Lucia, Sir Gaston, Iago all of whom have provided insight, answered questions, and made themselves available to pick their brains about brewing. 
>> 
>> Milord Valentine, you sir are the genuine article. Kind, gentle, well spoken, well mannered, and helpful. Your enthusiasm toward brewing even when told it would be limited to sodas and such unless your parents approved and were ever present helped to encourage me to keep doing the classes even after no one else was brewing. Your continued excitement and the passion you show in everything you do only lead me to believe that you will achieve whatever is laid before you.
>> 
>> To the Sailings.  For your friendship and opening your home to the guild for our use.
>> 
>> To everyone else who has attended a SUDDS meeting, acted as willing taste test subjects, or who has provided feedback you have all given me the opportunity to share as well as encouragement to spread this art to other people I meet. Were I to list each of you by name it might take me the night to do.
>> 
>> To each and every person who occupied my table at LPT, an indescribable feeling of pride as well as humbleness to have so many say so much while sharing about an interest that has become a part of how I share this dream of ours.
>> 
>> To all those named and all those not, you have provided the conditions, I have provided the tree and we shall continue to drink of the fruit.
>> 
>> Yours in humble service,
>> Stephan Yohanne Wilhelm Steger
>> Aka Sphereclese  
>> Aka Rotundus the Round
>> 
>> 
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