Events

What is Mead Day?

Mead Day, organized by the American Homebrewers Association (AHA), is a national event to help increase camaraderie among homebrewers (see What is Homebrewing?) and meadmakers (see What is Mead?) and to introduce or reintroduce the meadmaking hobby.

Each year on the first Saturday in August, homebrewers around the nation are encouraged to invite non-brewing and brewing friends and family to celebrate by making mead.

How to Celebrate

Before the event

• Register your Mead Day site by completing the Mead Day Registration form.
• Invite non-brewing and brewing/meadmaking friends to help make mead.
• Hold a special pre-event mead dinner for Mead Day friends or family.
• Find out if there is a Mead Day site in your area and join in on the fun! See Mead Day Sites by State.

During the event

• Brew the Official Mead Day Recipe.
• Tell friends and family about other American Homebrewers Association fun events, like Big Brew, National Homebrewers Conference, and Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day.
• Provide mead-making literature for your friends to read, like The Compleat Meadmaker and other meadmaking books. Order your copy today!
• Drink mead, pair your mead with food, and have fun!
• Join the American Homebrewers Association or buy an AHA membership as a gift for new homebrewers or meadmakers
• Have new homebrewers or meadmakers check out www.beertown.org for up-to-date brewing information.

After the Event

• Give us the stats from your Mead Day site.
• Check out Mead Day Totals for post-event numbers.
• Bottle the mead you made together.

If you have questions, please contact:

Janis Gross, Project Coordinator,
American Homebrewers Association
Phone (US/Canada): 888.822.6273
Phone (International): +1.303.447.0816
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Mead Competitions Throughout the Year

January

Meadlennium is hosted by the Central Florida Home Brewers in Orlando, Florida, USA. This is the second largest mead-only competition and is also the longest-running mead-only competition. Meadlennium is a BJCP/AHA sanctioned event. Held annually near the end of January in Orlando, Florida, the next Meadllennium will be January 26, 2008. The entry deadline is January 2-19, 2008.

Visit the Central Florida Home Brewers Meadlennium site.

International Mead Festival (IMF) Home Mead Makers Competition is hosted by the IMF in Denver/Boulder, Colorado, USA. The Home Mead Makers Competition (HMMC) is the largest Mead-Only contest. It is a BJCP/AHA and IMA sanctioned event. Though the judging will take place in January, the competition results are announced at the International Mead Festival, which takes place on February 8-9, 2008. The entry deadline is Saturday, December 15, 2007.

Vi st Home Mead Maker Competition - IMF 2008.

May

Goblets of Gold mead competition will take place in Homer, Arkansas, USA. This competition is hosted by the Q & Q Brewers Guild and the Ring of Fire Meadery, and it is a BJCP/AHA sanctioned event. The competition date for 2007 was May 11.

For more information contact:

Laurence Livingston
Phone: (907) 235-9412
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July

Arizona Mead Cup is hosted by Brewmeisters Anonymous club in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The date for the 2007 Arizona Mead Cup was Saturday, July 28.

Visit Brewmeisters Anonymous.

August

AHA Club-Only Mead Competition is hosted by Al Boyce and the Minnesota Home Brewers Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The AHA Club-Only Competitions (COC) are open to all AHA-registered homebrew clubs. This is a BJCP/AHA sanctioned competition. The AHA Club-Only Mead Competition will be held on August 2, 2008.

Please see American Homebrewers Association Club-Only Competitions for entry deadline and shipping details.

October

Valhalla, the Meading of Life is hosted by Brewers Unlimited Zany Zymurgists (BUZZ) in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. This is a BJCP/AHA sanctioned event. The 2007 competition was held on October 20.

Visit Valhalla, the Meading of Life.

For more Mead information, visit Talisman Farm: Mead.

MEAD DAY FACTS
2008	More than 950 people produced more than 820 gallons of mead at 54 sites in 29 states and Russia.
2007	More than 1,050 gallons of mead were produced at 51 sites by more than 500 meadmakers. There were Mead Day sites in 23 states, and in Canada, Australia, and Russia.

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