As you can tell, I haven’t been updating much. Too much happening in my mundane life to really have time for SCA. I still want to get back to parts of it, but time will tell. For now, I am semi-retired from the SCA, but more projects may show up.
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December 21, 2012 1:21 pm | 
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Well, I sort of forgot to update my blog with the progress of this. It finished brewing and has since be drunk. It actually turned out pretty good. Next time I will have to see about bottling it and maybe even carbonating it. But for a first pass, it turned out pretty good!
Uncategorized | Nicola Da Riva | February 25, 2012 9:44 pm | Comments (0)
Just posting a quick update to say that it is still bubbling away, however, it has slowed down quite a bit over the last 24 hours or so. Time to start thinking about what to do next.
Homebrew, SCA | Nicola Da Riva | September 30, 2011 11:20 pm | Comments (0)
Well, the first try at doing this is unknown. Due to things beyond my control, I don’t know how it all turned out. So, I am going to retry the same thing again starting today. Exact same set up as before. This time I should be able to actually see how it turns out.
Uncategorized | Nicola Da Riva | September 23, 2011 9:33 pm | Comments (0)
After about 10 days it appears that the fermenting has finally stopped. It is still sitting in the jugs that the cider came in, I want to give it a few more days to settle before I try to figure out what to do with it next. Life has sort of gotten in the way of things so I may need to redo this again. We will see what I end up with later this week.
Homebrew, SCA | Nicola Da Riva | May 29, 2011 2:11 pm | Comments (0)
Well, yet again, I have been slacking on updating my blog. I really should update it more often, but whatever. Having finished everything I need to actually fight on the field, I have started on my next project, full finger gauntlets. These are turning out to be a real pain in the butt and I haven’t even started on the actual fingers yet. The angles that I need to bend the steel are very odd and it does make for some challenges. I have spent about 6 hours on them so far and I only have part of 1 set almost done. This is going to be a very long term project.
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SCA | Nicola Da Riva | May 14, 2011 4:41 pm | Comments (0)
Well, I have started my first project in brewing, finally. I decided to go super simple for my first project. I am going to make fermented apple juice, AKA, hard apple cider. It is cheap, easy, and simple. Perfect for my first project. I started with 100% pure organic, pasteurized apple juice from Sprouts. I then added some English Cider Yeast from White Labs, added a stopper and a airlock and let it go. It was started yesterday. Here is a picture at about 24 hours after starting.
Homebrew, SCA | Nicola Da Riva | 4:34 pm | Comments (0)
Last Friday I again went to work on my arms. I fired the elbows to harden them. Now the long grind, literally. Getting all the forge-scale off is quite a challenge. It is going to take a while for me to finish this step. But I am making progress and progress is good. This is it for now, hopefully the new year brings much progress to my finished armor set.
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SCA | Nicola Da Riva | December 21, 2010 6:16 pm | Comments (0)
Well, I am very very very close to having a complete set of armor for myself now. I have made a new backplate for my armor since the original one is cracking badly. I even have pictures! All I need to do is attach the buckles to the new back once it finishes setting. Then, it is off to finish my arms.
New backplate with front.
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SCA | Nicola Da Riva | December 16, 2010 10:43 am | Comments (0)
Well, it has been awhile, again. Mainly because I haven’t done much blog worthy. I have done little things, but nothing too major. Nothing that has been completed. I have just inched forward with my armor. I started new elbows. Since last time I updated, I have been to 3 events. War of Ages, which I was very disappointed in myself at and wasn’t able to fight. The BG fall baronial, which I mainly stayed in the kitchen for. And then there was BAM (Bordermarch Autumn Melees). That was the most fun I have had at an event in a long time. I also got my “shaky knees” award there for my first kill in BAM. I was in good company, since the King of Gleann Abhann also got his. Other than that, not much has happened. I am going to start trying to take my fighting up a notch this month. Get in some more training and such. Next month I have been drafted to help with the Nobles lunch and dinner for crown tourny that we are hosting. I am going to try really really hard to go to Gulf Wars next March. We will see if work will cooperate with that. That is about it from me. I will update as I have things to update.
Tags: Bordermarch Autumn Melees, Bryn Gwlad, Cooking, Event, Fall Baronial, War of Ages
SCA | Nicola Da Riva | December 5, 2010 8:22 pm | Comments (0)
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