International Mead Festival @ Sheraton Denver West Hotel, Lakewood, CO
The International Mead Festival (an event through the International Mead Association) is the worlds' largest and most prestigious mead competition and festival. This event hosts both a public tasting of commercial meads and a private judging of commercial and now home made mead, entries.
NEW HOTEL LOCATION FOR 2007!!!!
Sheraton Denver West Hotel, Lakewood, Colorado
Needed: Sponsors and Supporters
Sponsorhip Options / Click Here to donate Silent Auction Items
Since Mead is 'the Drink of Love' then what better weekend than Valentines weekend?!
Schedule for Friday, February 9, 2007
5 pm – 10 pm Public Tasting Session #1
$30 advance / $35 at the door
Available for purchase October 15, 2006 (please check back)
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Educational Seminar Number 1 (All seminar topics will be annouced closer to festival)
7 pm - 8:00 pm Educational Seminar Number 2
8:30 pm Awards: Home Mead Making Competition
Schedule for Saturday, February 10, 2007
4 pm – 9 pm Public Tasting Session #2
$30 advance / $35 at the door
Available for purchase October 15, 2006 (check back to web site then)
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Education Seminar Number 3 (All seminar topics will be annouced closer to festival)
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm Educational Seminar Number 4
7:30 pm - Awards: Commercial Competition
Where:
Sheraton Denver West Hotel
Lakewood, Colorado.
How:
Ticket Information: Tickets sales begin on October 15, 2006
Competition:
1) HOME Mead Competition
Make no mistake about it, if there is one competition you enter all year long,
this is the one to enter. - GotMead.com
1st Round Judging - January 2007
Entry Deadline: All entries due by December 15, 2006
Entry form to be posted here soon!
2) COMMERCIAL Mead Competition
"If you are in the mead industry, make mead or are involved in mead
then you need to be there." - Paul Gatza, Brewers Association
Download Commercial Entry Form
NOTE: Entry form due December 4, 2006 (All entries must arrive January 2-January 17, 2007)
3) JUDGES NEEDED:
To Apply to be a Judge at the Commercial Competition email here: Commercial Competition
To Apply to be a Judge at the Home Competition email here: Home Competition
Be sure in your email to indicate: 1) Judge Training, 2) A summary why you feel you would be of value to our expert panel of judges, 3) Competitions you have judged in.