Australian National Mead Competition

Australian National Mead Competition page for the 2024 national mead competition to be held in Brisbane in November 2024.

Mead cultural swap.We had the pleasure today to journey out to Once upon a time【蜂蜜酒専門欧風酒場】 to introduce them to some mor...
22/07/2026

Mead cultural swap.

We had the pleasure today to journey out to Once upon a time【蜂蜜酒専門欧風酒場】 to introduce them to some more Australian meads. Featuring the likes of
Valknut Meadery and there 2025 ANMC overall champion mead Smoky Oak.
Three Horn our 2024 and 2025 Champion meadery with thier uniquely Australian mead Sunrise
Working Title Brew Co. with many a session mead as they dominate the session mead award category and cans are lighter for baggage
Cats Whiskers Meadery as a bit of nepotism

They already stock multi medal wining meadery Maxwell Wines which is great to see Australian meads out there in the world

In return we were introduced to many Japanese meaderies
国産ミード 秩父の蜂蜜酒醸造所 DFB who showed me much hospitality as well last year when I dropped in unannounced not realising not a cellar door.
WICKED WAY MEAD ミード 蜂蜜酒
ANTELOPE
京都蜂蜜酒醸造所 Kyoto Mead Brewery

Also there own mead made with smoked honey which is the first comercial mead I have had that way and hope not the last.

It was an amazing experience not just the mead and food, but most importantely the people at Once upon a time if you ever find yourself in Japan you should put this place on a must visit. Thier commitment to mead is something we should all take inspiration from.

Hope to see them again in Japan or Australia.

Sean

The Champion Session meads was once again taken out by .co this time with the Strawberry and Pomegranete. The other mead...
19/01/2026

The Champion Session meads was once again taken out by .co this time with the Strawberry and Pomegranete. The other meads they entered all picked up silver. They often have a mead on tap instead of ciders or seltzers like you see at most breweries they went with a local produce of honey starting with the honey from as local as they could get on premise from . Also throwing out the general idea of mead it will often be one of the lower ABV drinks you will find on tap. Perfect for QLD summer if you find yourself in newstead be sure to check them out.

Champion Mead producer is decided by average score across all entries with those meaderies who have entered 3 or more me...
11/01/2026

Champion Mead producer is decided by average score across all entries with those meaderies who have entered 3 or more meads. has definitiley shown there consistency taking it out both years of the competition with a large variety of entries and two champion categories. There with 4 qualifying meaderies being within one point this year showing that the quality all round is great.

Finally getting on top of things from the end of year mayhem. Feedback to entrants being sent on tomorrow and most troph...
09/01/2026

Finally getting on top of things from the end of year mayhem. Feedback to entrants being sent on tomorrow and most trophies for champions in post on Monday. Except this one which was hand delivered tiday to for their exceptuonal Smoky Oak which was took out the best of show from the champions of each style. This is the second year in a row for them to take home the champion barrel, bochet or fortified champion with Smoky Oak.

It is just as important to celebrate the home mead makers also cracking out some exceptional meads. This photo is of the...
23/11/2025

It is just as important to celebrate the home mead makers also cracking out some exceptional meads. This photo is of the last judging round for the day to do the best of show out of these champion meads for style.

Show Mead
Stephen Lars, (NSW) with Wilhelm Pyment Sparkling
Fruit Mead
Jonathan Koopman, (NSW) with a Morat
Spiced
Wayne Hewett, (VIC) with The Folly
Bochet or Barrel
Dominic Roth(QLD) with Aeas' Embrace
Session or Braggot
Dominic Roth(QLD) with Leather On Pommes
Experimental
John Hood (VIC) with a Viking Blood

Ok, it's time to celebrate all the Champions of style starting with the Commercial Meaderies we haveShow MeadAurum Mead-...
23/11/2025

Ok, it's time to celebrate all the Champions of style starting with the Commercial Meaderies we have
Show Mead
Aurum Mead-Rose
Fruit Mead
Amrita Park Meadery - Strawberry Melomel Semi Sweet, Macadamia Honey -
Spiced
Three Horn- Sunset 2025
Bochet, Barrel, Fortified
Valknut Meadery- Smoky Oak Mead
Session
Working Title Brew co.-Hive Strawberry and Pommegranette .co
Experimental
Three Horn - Sunrise 2025

The image is of the poured out samples for the judges' best of show round. Which are labelled by a new letter based system. For those who are counting, there are indeed 7 meads there Experimental had a tie for first between Three Horn and Three Horn, so both were included, and the highest ranked was chosen as champion for style.

23/11/2025

Quick post update from the competition more in-depth when we get back. The electronic judging planned fell over so will be a few days of typing again for people to get full feedback but all medal winners will be posted later tonight and there were a lot. But onto big winners.

In our Comercial

Best of Show Mead and champion in the Bocher, Barrel Aged and Fortified is:
Valknut Meadery with Smoky Oak Traditional

Champion Meadery was for second year in a row Three Horn
They also take champion Experimental with Sunrise 2025 and champion Spice, Herb, Vegetable with Sunset 2025.

Best of Show for the Home mead maker goes to Jonothan Koopman with thier Morat.

Plenty more to celebrate once we finish packing up today the quality only went up this year and plans were discussed for the future.

Regards,
Sean Reynolds Massey-Reed
Competition Organiser

Another one of our 2024 entrants Mt Stirlling Mead. . Settled in the heart of QLD's wine country they have a great littl...
08/11/2025

Another one of our 2024 entrants Mt Stirlling Mead. . Settled in the heart of QLD's wine country they have a great little tasting room which we visited today and picked up some 2025 entries as well as some for personal consumption and badly taken publicity photos. And with that it is now getting to the pointy end of competition prep time for us with entries closing(if you missed out and desperately need to please reach out via message) countdown to judging is now on within a fortnight 2025 comp will be over.

Next up in posts is Maxwell wines. The best known, longest running and easiest accessed mead in Australian and seeing h...
31/10/2025

Next up in posts is Maxwell wines. The best known, longest running and easiest accessed mead in Australian and seeing how they went in the competition, it is not hard to see why they have been around so long. That along with their highly regarded vineyard restraunt and cellar door, they are well worth looking out for.

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