SC - OOP:All Scots at heart-Burns Day

[Christine A Seelye-King]

Haraldr Bassi / Dave Calafrancesco wrote:
>While that might be the case but the primary concern for an SCA cook 
>is to make
>sure that they don't run afoul of our own rules. We can't server alcohol. The
>group can't own alcohol to serve. The group isn't allowed to manufacture
>alcohol. The group is allowed to incorporate alcohol into a food 
>item where the
>alcohol is a normal side ingredient.
>
>The above is a paraphrase of the society alcohol policy and should 
>be enough to
>assist the cooks in not running afoul of the rules.

Uh, this just is not true. Most of your interpretation is very far 
off the actual official Society alcohol policy.

You CAN serve alcohol, assuming that the *site* where the feast is 
held allows it.
The group can own alcohol to serve.
And the group is allowed to manufacture alcohol.

You just can't use SCA funds to purchase the alcohol.

So make the feast BYOB. Or a non-officer can donate the alcohol. Or a 
local brewer could donate as long as he wasn't an officer of the 
Society. However since Kings and Queens are officially officers of 
the SCA, they cannot make the donation.

Alcoholic beverages, or the ingredients and equipment to manufacture 
alcoholic beverages, cannot be purchased with official SCA funds. 
Have the members of the group contribute as private individuals 
rather than as SCA members, and, of course, don't use Principality or 
Kingdom funds.

In other words, you can purchase stuff with your own money, just 
don't ask to be reimbursed by any part of the Society.

I discussed this with a couple friends who either are now or have 
recently been members of the Society BOD. That's how i know the King 
can't donate the alcohol - it was one of my hypothetical questions.

Of course, alcohol as an ingredient in food dishes (which are not 
primarily alcoholic) CAN be reimbursed. But you cannot buy a bottle 
of sparkling rosé, pour it into a bowl, slice a couple peaches in it 
and call it peach soup, because in that case the alcohol is a primary 
ingredient, not a secondary one - that is, all the dishes i cooked 
with alcohol in them could have been made without alcohol and would 
not have suffered much, but you, uh, couldn't make that, uh, soup, 
yeah, that's the ticket, soup, without the alcohol.

I was reimbursed for the wine used in the dishes i prepared in my 
feast, because they were incidental ingredients. I made 
non-alcoholic, as i called it "faulx", hypocras. The site was dry, 
but i noticed some discrete bottles of wine - and someone who shall 
remain nameless misbehaved a little with a pocket flask. As long as 
we took our empty bottles home with us and didn't put them in the 
trash cans of the site we were alright.

I would assume that non-alcoholic "wine" and "beer" could be 
purchased with Society funds, since it's the alcohol that's the 
problem and these things are alcohol-free, but i doubt very many 
people would want to drink them.

Anahita al-shazhiyya