The Mead Crafters Competition is judged by mead certified judges, mead makers and sommeliers. The submitted meads were judged on their aroma, appearance, flavor and overall impression.

Cyser

• Cyser – Rushford Meadery and Winery
• Transcendent – Blue Honey

Design

• Buzzworthy – Smog City Brewing Co./Moonlight Meadery

Dessert Mead

• Final Act – Garagiste Meadery

Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry

• BRB – Three Hands Mead Company

Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet

• Got the Blues – Etowah Meadery
• Oasis – Bears Bluff Meadery/Deep Water Vineyard
• Shield Maiden – Atheling Meadworks
• Very Berry Jerry (VBJ) – Bluewood Brewing

Metheglin Sweet

• All About The B.U.Z.Z. – Treehive

Pyment Dry

• Purple and Gold – KingView Mead, Wine, and Cider

Pyment Semi-Sweet

• Eir’s Song – Atheling Meadworks

Specialty Semi-Sweet

• Salt Box Sunrise – Charm City Meadworks
• Strong Currant – Beach Bee Meadery

Specialty Sweet

• Barrel-Aged Arrangement of Beliefs – Pye Road Meadworks
• Bourbon Barrel Aged Mead – Valley Vineyards
• Crisp Apple Bourbon Barrel – Saga Meadery
• Winter Cranberry – Antelope Ridge Mead

Traditional Semi-Sweet

• Knights Tale – Honeypot Farms Meadery

Varietal Dry

• Ethiopian Geteme Blossom – Heidrun Meadery
• High Oak Orange Blossom Mead – Martin Brothers Winery
• California Sage Blossom – Heidrun Meadery

Varietal Sweet

• Mead – Wyldewood Cellars Illinois
• Soliloquy of Nectar: Old Florida Tupelo – Zymarium Meadery

Braggot

• Buzzworthy – Smog City Brewing Co./Moonlight Meadery

Cyser

• Eden's Temptation – Bears Bluff Meadery/Deep Water Vineyard
• Honey River Cyser – Healthberry Farm

Dessert Mead

• Blue Beary Cheesecake – Unpossible Mead
• Chocolate Cherry – Contrivance Wine & Mead Co.
• Erebus – Zen Bee Meadery
• Peach Brandy BA Vestalia – Superstition Meadery
• Pirate Daze – Beach Bee Meadery
• Rise of the Dragon – Batch Mead
• Slee. Ping Potion – Manoa Honey & Mead

Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry

• Honey River Elderberry Melomel – Healthberry Farm
• Root of Evil – Clear Skies Meadery

Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet

• Blackberry ! – Feisty Brood Meadery, Inc.
• Blueberry Honeywine – Prairie Berry, LLC
• Cranberry – Rohan Meadery
• Dragon's Blood – Oppegaard meadery
• Lemon Drop – Sierra Foothills Meadery
• Meadery of the Rockies Blackberry Honey – Meadery of the Rockies
• Plum Mead – Duck Creek Vineyard and Winery
• Plum Mead – Prairie Rose Meadery
• Unsolicited Advice – WildFlyer Mead Co.

Metheglin Dry

• Knotty Soda – Clear Skies Meadery
• Red Wedding – Lilly Belle Meads

Metheglin Semi-Sweet

• Fable Farms 2022 Flower Floozies – Fable Farms Meadery
• Ginger Voodoo – Superstition Meadery
• Liberty – 1634 Meadery
• Mead with Vanilla & Cinnamon – Bee-Town Mead & Cider

Metheglin Sweet

• A Force Of Time – The Brimming Horn Meadery
• Autumnal – The Mead Werks at Wilderbee Farm
• Flora Luna – Artesia Brewing
• Hekate – The Brimming Horn Meadery
• Hot for Teacher – Artesia Brewing
• Mimir – Garagiste Meadery
• Replicator Malfunction – Space Time Mead & Cider Works
• Rheda’s Longing – Atheling Meadworks

Pyment Semi-Sweet

• Somm Series Volume 6 – Bluewood Brewing

Specialty Dry

• Asgard's Going Bananas – Mad Horn Meadery

Specialty Semi-Sweet

• Carolina Peach Reaper – Wandering Bard Meadery
• Rootbeer Mead – Duck Creek Vineyard and Winery
• Strawberry Elderflower – Honeygirl Meadery

Specialty Sweet

• Barrel Aged Mead – Feisty Brood Meadery, Inc.
• Dragons Breath – Frascone winery
• PB&J XL – Antelope Ridge Mead
• Rumpleplumskin – Superstition Meadery

Traditional Dry

• Dry Wildflower Mead – Martin Brothers Winery
• Monks Mead – Monks Meadery
• Wildflower Traditional – Slaymaker Cellars

Traditional Semi-Sweet

• Sweet Mead – White Winter Mead, Cider & Spirits

Traditional Sweet

• Honey Mead – Valley Vineyards

Varietal Dry

• Oregon Blackberry Blossom – Heidrun Meadery
• PŌ – Manoa Honey & Mead
• Pomegranate Blossom – Sierra Foothills Meadery

Varietal Semi-Sweet

• Avocado Blossom Mead – Honeygirl Meadery
• Brazillian Aroeira Nectar – Hunters Moon Meadery
• Lehua – Garagiste Meadery
• Orange Blossom Mead – Martin Brothers Winery
• Tangerine Blossom – Unpossible Mead

Varietal Sweet

• Chaucer's Mead – Chaucer's Cellars
• Surtr – Williamson Mead and Brewing
• Viking Mjod Mead – Batch Mead

Braggot

• Firelight – Artesia Brewing

Cyser

• Happy Apple Pie – KingView Mead, Wine, and Cider
• Okaw Valley Cyser – Treehive

Dessert Mead 

• Bochet – Philadelphia Mead Company
• Strawberry Shortcake – Silver Hand Meadery

Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry

• ImMEADiate Gratification – Run Amok Mead

Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet

• Apple Pie Delight – Feisty Brood Meadery, Inc.
• Blackberry Mead – Ozark Viking Meadery, LLC
• Dammerung – W A Meadwerks
• Honeyberry Mead – Prairie Rose Meadery
• Not For The Faint of Tart – Three Hands Mead Company
• Rubee – Queen's Reward Meadery

Metheglin Dry

• Drylands Juniper / Pine Mead – Melchemy Craft Mead
• Lady Grey – Contrivance Wine & Mead Co.
• Lavender – Stardust Cellars

Metheglin Semi-Sweet

• Eight O'clock – W A Meadwerks
• ToffeeScotch – Blue Honey

Metheglin Sweet

• Benedict – Fitzgibbon Meadery
• Cinnamead – Winehaven Winery and Vineyard
• DV Pear'd – Pye Road Meadworks
• Existential Magnetism – Zymarium Meadery
• High Kings Metheglin – The Brimming Horn Meadery
• Kazimiera – Two Seasons Meadery
• Summer Solstice – Frascone Winery

Pyment Semi-Sweet

• Black Currant Honey Grape Wine – Duck Creek Vineyard and Winery
• Mielleux Blanc – WildFlyer Mead Co.

Specialty Sweet

• Butter Bee Mead – Batch Mead
• High Maintenance – Queen City Meadery
• Honey Habanero – Queen's Reward Meadery
• Hop in the Sack – The Mead Werks at Wilderbee Farm
• Nectarious After Dark Bourbon Reserve – The Mead Werks at Wilderbee Farm

Varietal Dry

• Traditional – Philadelphia Mead Company

Varietal Semi-Sweet

• Cranberry Nectar – Hunters Moon Meadery
• Heart Of Gold Coriander Blossom – Silver Hand Meadery
• Meadery of the Rockies Medium Sweet Honey Wine – Meadery of the Rockies
• Orange Blossom – Antelope Ridge Mead
• Orchard in Bloom – Sierra Foothills Meadery
• Traditional Mead Gallberrry Blossom – Starrlight Mead

Varietal Sweet

• Forgotten Bucket – 1634 Meadery
• Stinger – Winehaven Winery and Vineyard

Gold Medal Winner: Hibiscus Ginger – Three Leg Run

Silver Medal Winner: Knees on Bees – 10 Barrel Brewing Company

Bronze Medal Winner: Pink by Bacchus – Monks Meadery

Gold Medal Winner: Dark Waves – Charm City Meadworks

Silver Medal Winner: Blu on Black – Zen Bee Meadery

Bronze Medal Winner: Pink Guava – Alaska Meadery

Gold Medal Winner: Crystal Blu Meth(eglin) – Lilly Belle Meads

Silver Medal Winner: Red Potion – Queen City Meadery

Bronze Medal Winner: White Lychee – Zen Bee Meadery