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Celebrating the Winter Solstice
CellarDweller:
You? Too old? far from it, friend!
Front-Ranger:
Oh, it would be fun to celebrate Lughnasa! When does it occur? I can put it on the calendar.
I have two relevant things to say about it. Yesterday I was photographing some mead for a client who has a meadery. If I had known it was Lughnasa, I would have opened the bottle after I was done photographing it!
Also, I am reading a wonderful book, Celtic Myths and Legends by T. W. Rolleston. The book is a collector's edition published by Easton Press in 1997, bound in gilded leather with gilded edge archival paper, and with a brocade silk attached bookmark ribbon and brocade inner covers. The frontispiece is on glossy paper depicting Brigit. There isn't anything about Lughnasa in the book but a lot about Lugh.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 08, 2015, 11:19:54 am ---Oh, it would be fun to celebrate Lughnasa! When does it occur? I can put it on the calendar.
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Lughnasa is August 1, more or less. The Early Church Christianized it as Lammas, or "Loaf Mass." Both were harvest thanksgivings.
So we've missed it for this year. :(
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 08, 2015, 11:19:54 am ---I have two relevant things to say about it. Yesterday I was photographing some mead for a client who has a meadery. If I had known it was Lughnasa, I would have opened the bottle after I was done photographing it!
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You should try some of it some day--and report back! ;D
I've had some home-brewed meads that were spectacularly awful, like trying to drink a jar of honey. :P I also, once, had some wonderful mead from a winery somewhere in the Midwest; it was very light. :)
Front-Ranger:
The Meadery I'm working for has been in operation since 1995 so they must be doing something right. They make a semi-sweet mead and a sweet mead, as well as about a dozen mead blends. It's called Meadery of the Rockies.
Here's a photo of the book:
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