2021 Mead CRAFTERS Competition
2021 Awards
More than 380 entered, but only one came out on top. Mead with Sour Cherry from Bee-Town Mead & Cider, LLC of Bluffton, SC, took home Best of Show honors at the 2021 Mead Crafters Competition, hosted by the National Honey Board. This year’s competition welcomed commercial meads which were submitted from craft meaderies across the United States.
The Mead Crafters Competition is a BJCP certified program and judged by mead certified judges, mead makers and sommeliers. The submitted meads were judged on their aroma, appearance, flavor and overall impression.
2021 Mead Crafters Competition Winners

Best of Show: Gold
Mead with Sour Cherry
Bee-Town Mead & Cider, LLC
Bluffton, SC

Best of Show: Silver
Game of Thorns
Wildflyer Mead Co.
Navasota, TX

Best of Show: Bronze
From the Ashes
Batch Mead
Temecula, CA
Bracket / Braggot — 10 Penny Lane, GoodRoad CiderWorks
Bracket / Braggot — Buzzworthy, Smog City Brewing Co
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry — Midsummer Night’s Mead, Oran Mor Artisan Mead, LLC
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Blue Bee, Cigar City Cider and Mead
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Triple Beere, KingView Mead
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Blueberry Hex, Superstition Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Love Apple, Unpossible Mead, Inc.
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Crandemic, Honey & Hops Brew Works
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Marion the Barbarian, Manic Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Blueberry, Treehive
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Elderberry Blackberry Mead, Wyldewood Cellars
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Honey Chai Mead, Honeygirl Meadery
Metheglin Sweet — Sky River Lavender Mead, Sky River Mead
Metheglin Sweet — Lofnablom, The Brimming Horn Meadery
Metheglin Sweet — Royal Metheglin, The Brimming Horn Meadery
Pyment Semi-Sweet — Stop-Your-Wining, Liquid Alchemy
Pyment Semi-Sweet — Simplicity, Queen City Meadery
Specialty Dry — Apero, Upper Reach Meadery
Specialty Semi-Sweet — Scarlett Ibis, Artivem Mead Co.
Specialty Semi-Sweet — Twilight Reserve, Ethereal Meads
Specialty Sweet — Cerberus, Garagiste Meadery / Mortalis Brewing Company
Specialty Sweet — Bourbon Barrel Aged Mead, Valley Vineyards
Traditional Dry — Angelic, Second City Meadery
Traditional Sweet — Mead, Wyldewood Cellars
Varietal Dry — Hawaiian Lehua Blossom, Heidrun Meadery
Design — Buzzworthy, Smog City Brewing Co
Dessert Mead Sweet — Choco-Cherry-Bon-Bon, Liquid Alchemy
Dessert Mead Sweet — Double Chocolate Elliot, Manic Meadery
Dessert Mead Sweet — Pucker Up, Queen’s Reward Meadery
Dessert Mead Sweet — Meadow of Mangoes, Rebel Hive Meadery
Dessert Mead Sweet — 2020 Voyage Dans La Lune, Space Time Mead & Cider Works
Dessert Mead Sweet — Nectarious, The Mead Werks at Wilderbee Farm
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry — Shield Maiden, Atheling Meadworks
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry — Hopped, Clear Skies Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry — Currantly Buzzed, Honeypot Farms Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry — Paradise Unpaved, House Bear Brewing, LLC
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry — Dragon And Phoenix, Oran Mor Artisan Mead, LLC
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry — Magdalena, Queen Bee Brews
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry — Honey Badger, SoLu Estate Winery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Northern goshawk, Artivem Mead Co.
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Mead with Strawberry, Bee-Town Mead & Cider, LLC
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Kiwi Bee, Cigar City Cider and Mead
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Pom Pom, Cigar City Cider and Mead
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Waiving Distance, Cigar City Cider and Mead
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Stone Pile Peach, Etowah Meadery, Corp
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Blood Orange Libation, Feisty Brood Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Atomic Breath, KVLT Mead
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Black Velvet, Silver Hand Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — All Blues, Silver Hand Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Blueberry Mead, Spurgeon Vineyards & Winery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Strawberry Mead, Wassail Inc DBA Maine Mead Works
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Violet Beauregarde, WildFlyer Mead Co.
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Viking Lunchbox, Bluewood Brewing
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Blackberry Honey Wine, Dancing Bee Winery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Honey River Perry, Healthberry Farm
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Elliot, Manic Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Mega Meme, Unpossible Mead, Inc.
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Peach Mead, Wyldewood Cellars
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Elderberry Mead, Wyldewood Cellars
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Elderberry Blackberry Mead, Wyldewood Illinois
Metheglin Dry — Minuteman, 1634 Meadery
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Viking Victory, 1634 Meadery
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Honey Lavender, Blue Honey
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Spiced Sensation, Feisty Brood Meadery
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Vanilla Cinnamon, Prairie Rose Meadery
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Cinnamead, Winehaven
Metheglin Sweet — Honey Habanero, Queen’s Reward Meadery
Metheglin Sweet — Spiced Mead, Wassail Inc DBA Maine Mead Works
Pyment Dry — Odin’s Potion, Helderberg Meadworks
Pyment Semi-Sweet — Seneca Nectar, Fossenvue Wines
Pyment Semi-Sweet — Raud Pyment, The Brimming Horn Meadery
Pyment Sweet — Tripartite, Garagiste Meadery
Specialty Dry — Whiskey Barrel-Aged Wild Blueberry, Bee-Town Mead & Cider, LLC
Specialty Dry — Meant To Bee, Honeypot Farms Meadery
Specialty Semi-Sweet — The Mike Browne, Chubby Cheeks Meadery
Specialty Semi-Sweet — Dahlonega Sunset, Etowah Meadery, Corp
Specialty Semi-Sweet — Viking Grog, KingView Mead
Specialty Sweet — Creeper, Honey & Hops Brew Works
Specialty Sweet — Apple Runner, Manic Meadery
Specialty Sweet — Rebel Lunch, Rebel Hive Meadery
Specialty Sweet — Winter Cheer, Saga Meadery
Specialty Sweet — Vanilla Tranquility, Second City Meadery
Specialty Sweet — Easy On The B’s, Treehive
Traditional Semi-Sweet — Amendment XIX, Fossenvue Wines
Traditional Semi-Sweet — It’s Not You, It’s Mead, Rebel Hive Meadery
Traditional Sweet — The Dark Wanderer, Williamson Mead and Brewing
Traditional Sweet — Stinger, Winehaven
Varietal Dry — California Sage Blossom, Heidrun Meadery
Varietal Semi-Sweet — Meadowfoam, Garagiste Meadery
Varietal Semi-Sweet — Berry Blossom, Sierra Foothills Meadery
Varietal Sweet — Sweet Tupelo Blossom, Manic Meadery
Varietal Sweet — Eucalyptus Blossom, The Brimming Horn Meadery
Varietal Sweet — Lagertha’s Mead, Williamson Mead and Brewing
Cyser Semi-Sweet — Apple Honey Wine, Dancing Bee Winery
Cyser Sweet — Blossom, Moonlight Meadery
Cyser Sweet — Idunn’s Mead, Williamson Mead and Brewing
Design — Dune Bloom, Superstition Meadery
Bracket / Braggot — Mango Is Our Middle Name, RT66 OLD SCHOOL BREWING
Cyser Dry — Cyser, Rushford Meadery and Winery
Dessert Mead Sweet — Striped Owl, Artivem Mead Co.
Dessert Mead Sweet — Caress, Moonlight Meadery
Dessert Mead Sweet — Nectarious After Dark – Rye, The Mead Werks at Wilderbee Farm
Dessert Mead Sweet — Black Harbor, White Winter Mead, Cider, Spirits
Dessert Mead Sweet — Holiday Harbor, White Winter Mead, Cider, Spirits
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry — Devil’s Footprint, 1634 Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry — Dance, Frolic, and Cheer, GoodRoad CiderWorks
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Dry — Sriki Tiki, Monks Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Eir’s Song, Atheling Meadworks
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Blueberry Buckle, Blue Honey
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — CHAUCER’S Raspberry Mead, Chaucer’s Cellars
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Blossom, Clear Skies Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Raven’s Cassis, Clear Skies Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Got the Blues, Etowah Meadery, Corp
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — The Road Less Traveled, GoodRoad CiderWorks
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Back Trails, Honey & Hops Brew Works
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Hazardous, Maryland Meadworks
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Ida, Queen Bee Brews
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Blackberry Bay, SoLu Estate Winery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Pfirsichkuchen “Peach Pie”, Waldmet Cellars
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Semi-Sweet — Origin, Wandering Bard Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Sanchez, B.Nektar
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — A Street Called Wanda, B.Nektar
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Fleur de Bees, B.Nektar
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Peach Pie, Batch Mead
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Very Berry Jerry (VBJ), Bluewood Brewing
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Raspberry Mead, Boyd’s Cardinal Hollow Winery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Lemon Mead, Prairie Rose Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Aretha, Queen Bee Brews
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Strawberry Swing, Silver Hand Meadery
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Mango, Treehive
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Freya’s Meaf, Williamson Mead and Brewing
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Raspberry Mead, Wyldewood Illinois
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Blackberry Peach Mead, Wyldewood Illinois
Fruit / Vegetable Melomel Sweet — Elderberry Mead, Wyldewood Illinois
Metheglin Dry — Port Madera, Chubby Cheeks Meadery
Metheglin Dry — Peachin to the Choir, Monks Meadery
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Sucka Punch Reserve, Chubby Cheeks Meadery
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Orange Mead, Duck Creek Vineyard and Winery
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Coffee Adoration, Feisty Brood Meadery
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Pillars of mercy, KVLT Mead
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Pucker-Up-Baby, Liquid Alchemy
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Jazzy Java, Rebel Hive Meadery
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Simply Ginger, SoLu Estate Winery
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Tahitian Honeymoon, Superstition Meadery
Metheglin Semi-Sweet — Lavender Mead, Wassail Inc DBA Maine Mead Works
Metheglin Sweet — Jack O’Hive, Misty Mountain Meadworks, Inc.
Metheglin Sweet — Sky River Chamomile Mead, Sky River Mead
Metheglin Sweet — Sky River Ginger Honey wine, Sky River Mead
Metheglin Sweet — Collaboration Lavender Mead, Space Time Mead & Cider Works / Honey Hole Winery
Metheglin Sweet — A Force of Time, The Brimming Horn Meadery
Metheglin Sweet — Autumnal, The Mead Werks at Wilderbee Farm
Metheglin Sweet — Gelos Mead, Williamson Mead and Brewing
Pyment Dry — Golden, KingView Mead
Pyment Semi-Sweet — Grape Mead, Duck Creek Vineyard and Winery
Pyment Semi-Sweet — Blooming Roots, Fossenvue Wines
Pyment Semi-Sweet — …Another Man’s Treasure, Unpossible Mead, Inc.
Pyment Sweet — Delta Gold, Queen’s Reward Meadery
Pyment Sweet — Snow Melt, Superstition Meadery
Specialty Dry — IPM, Honeypot Farms Meadery
Specialty Dry — Abstinence in the Abbey, Monks Meadery
Specialty Dry — Anbruch “Beginning”, Waldmet Cellars
Specialty Semi-Sweet — Sharp Shinned Hawk, Artivem Mead Co.
Specialty Semi-Sweet — Enlightened One, Cigar City Cider and Mead
Specialty Semi-Sweet — Honey Mojito, Prairie Rose Meadery
Specialty Semi-Sweet — Orange Spice, Prairie Rose Meadery
Specialty Semi-Sweet — Mantle of Whispers, Scale & Feather Meadery
Specialty Semi-Sweet — Cinnamon Tree, Silver Hand Meadery
Specialty Semi-Sweet — Höhepunkt “Culmination”, Waldmet Cellars
Specialty Semi-Sweet — Pretty Heart, WildFlyer Mead Co.
Specialty Sweet — Clarice, Bluewood Brewing
Specialty Sweet — Heart for the butcher, KVLT Mead
Specialty Sweet — Tempt, Moonlight Meadery
Specialty Sweet — Bourbon Barrel Aged Crisp Apple, Saga Meadery
Specialty Sweet — Puffs Sweet Heat, Saga Meadery
Specialty Sweet — Cherry Dearest, Zen Bee Meadery
Traditional Dry — Friending Fenrir, Clear Skies Meadery
Traditional Dry — Valkyrie’s Tears, Clear Skies Meadery
Traditional Dry — Dry Mead, Wassail Inc DBA Maine Mead Works
Traditional Semi-Sweet — CHAUCER’S Sparkling Mead, Chaucer’s Cellars
Traditional Semi-Sweet — CHAUCER’S Mead, Chaucer’s Cellars
Traditional Semi-Sweet — Wildflower Mead, Martin Brothers Winery
Traditional Semi-Sweet — Virginia Tonight, Silver Hand Meadery
Traditional Semi-Sweet — Tupelo Traditional, Wandering Bard Meadery
Traditional Sweet — Midnight Dale, Atheling Meadworks
Traditional Sweet — Süb, KingView Mead
Traditional Sweet — Sky River Solas, Sky River Mead
Traditional Sweet — Honey Mead, Valley Vineyards
Varietal Dry — Dry Mead, Dancing Bee Winery
Varietal Dry — California Orange Blossom, Heidrun Meadery
Varietal Dry — California Buckwheat Blossom, Heidrun Meadery
Varietal Dry — Show Bear Orange, House Bear Brewing, LLC
Varietal Semi-Sweet — Desert Rain’s Kiss, Bluewood Brewing
Varietal Semi-Sweet — Orange Blossom Mead, Martin Brothers Winery
Varietal Sweet — Fall of Seraphs, KVLT Mead
Varietal Sweet — Orange Blossom Mead, Misty Mountain Meadworks, Inc.
Varietal Sweet — Tastes Like Toffee, Unpossible Mead, Inc.
Design — Autumnal, The Mead Werks at Wilderbee Farm
Session Meads

Best of Show: Gold
Honey Kwench
White Winter Mead, Cider, Spirits

Best of Show: Silver
Tempest
Batch Mead

Best of Show: Bronze
Weekend Water Dry Hopped
Upper Reach Meadery
Gold Medal Winner — Weekend Water Dry Hopped, Upper Reach Meadery
Silver Medal Winner — Sunrise Bay, B.Nektar
Bronze Medal Winner — Weekend Water Guava + Hibiscus, Upper Reach Meadery
Gold Medal Winner — Honey Kwench, White Winter Mead, Cider, Spirits
Silver Medal Winner — Peacemaker, Queen City Meadery
Bronze Medal Winner — Dune Bloom, Superstition Meadery
Gold Medal Winner — Tempest, Batch Mead
Silver Medal Winner — White Rabbit, Zen Bee Meadery
Bronze Medal Winner — Everyberry, Zen Bee Meadery