My Goal for Next Year is to Finish it This Year...

Black Clu- black cherry honey wine. The Clurichaun series is similar to his other meads, but with the delicious addition of hops.

Sad but true. The Clurichaun is my only goal this year and I hope to get it done by January. For anyone who isn't sure what a Clurichaun is (or how to pronounce it) think Leprechaun. A small mischievous creature that helps in the magical making of beer, wine, and in this case: mead. I've had this project assigned to me by Steve Haystead of the Bardic Wells Meadery back in July. Well summer was crazy but things are slowing down a bit. Needless to say i've been pretty gung-ho on this little man for the past couple months. A lot of the delay was my unease about creating the joints. Well I got tired of having a bunch of body parts lying around and started connecting them.

So, by now the only thing left to do is make the head and legs. From there, the devil is in the details with joining everything. The best part that I am looking forward to is making the clothing...