[Sca-cooks] Drinks at feasts

[Sue Clemenger]

In Artemisia, people usually bring their own drinks to a feast.  Have a 
beverage or two provided as part of the feast is more the exception than 
the norm.
--maire, who keeps a nice little bottle of sekanjabin syrup in her feast 
basket, since she's usually too ding-dong tired at the end of an event 
to bother with anything alcohol-based ;o)

Betty Cook wrote:

> The question then becomes, what do you serve for people to drink at 
> feasts? As someone else indicated, at least it isn't iced tea, which as 
> far as I can tell was never been served to anyone in our period; 
> sekanjabin and the other syrup drinks are at least reasonably 
> appropriate for Islamic personas. What we should be serving for European 
> feasts is pretty clearly wine, beer, mead, etc.; the problem with these 
> is that we run into mundane constraints, including; (1) people often 
> have to drive home after the feast; and (2) sites often don't allow 
> alcohol; and (3) the SCA alcohol policy won't let you spend SCA money on 
> them. At my last feast I compromised by serving small mead I had made 
> myself from one of Digby's recipes, and donating it, which isn't 
> horribly expensive, along with water and sekanjabin.
> 
> How do other people handle this?