SC - Feast Beverages

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/3/2000 11:08:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
taracook at yahoo.com writes:

<< Since I've been in the SCA, in the Kingdom of
 Meridies, every feast at which I cooked, served or dined included iced
 tea.  Usually ice water, sometimes lemonade or cider, occasionally
 wine, beer or mead in years past, but ALWAYS sweetened iced tea.
 
 Is this common throughout the SCA?  If not, what beverages are served
 at feast in other kingdoms?  >>

I haven't often run into iced tea here in the East.  Lemonade, or other juice 
drinks, seem to be fairly common.  I've also encountered a rosewater drink 
(which I didn't care for, not liking rosewater much).
For my own feasts, I've been tending to do sekanjabin and syrup of lemons.  
They aren't from the cuisine I'm using (mostly late medieval English and 
French), but as least they are documentable to a similar time period.  If 
anyone has any better suggestions, I'm open to them.

Brangwayna Morgan