2025 Arizona Mead & Cider Homebrew Competition
Thank you for your interest in the 2025 Arizona Mead & Cider Homebrew Competition organized by , Flagstaff, AZ.
You only need to register your information once and can return to this site to enter more brews or edit the brews you've entered. You can even pay your entry fees online if you wish.
If you are willing to judge or steward, please return to register on or after Saturday, August 2, 2025 6:00 PM, MST.
Rules
This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older.
Only mead, cider, and perry will be allowed into the competition.
The entry fee is $10/entry.
Up to a maximum of 10 total entries per person. Only one entry per sub-category is allowed. For example: one entry in M2B and one entry in M2C.
All entries must be received at a drop-off location by the drop-off deadline.
Each entry will consist of three 12 to 22 ounce, capped or corked bottle(s) that are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely. No swing tops or cans.
All entries must be handcrafted products, containing ingredients available to the general public, and made using private equipment by hobbyist brewers (i.e., no use of commercial facilities or Brew on Premises operations, supplies, etc.).
The competition organizers are not responsible for mis-categorized entries, entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrived damaged.
The competition organizers reserve the right to combine styles for judging and to restructure awards as needed depending upon the quantity and quality of entries.
Qualified judging of all entries is the primary goal of our event. Judges will evaluate and score each entry. The average of the scores will rank each entry in its category.
The competition committee reserves the right to combine overall style categories based on number of entries. All possible effort will be made to combine similar styles. All brews in combined categories will be judged according to the style they were originally entered in.
The Best of Show judging will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of the top winners.
Bottles will not be returned to entrants.
Entry Acceptance Rules
Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 3
Each entry will consist of three 12 to 22 ounce, capped or corked bottle(s) that are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely.
12oz brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green and clear glass will be accepted. No swing tops or cans.
Bottles will not be returned to contest entrants.
All requisite paperwork must be submitted with each entry and can be printed directly from this website. Entry paperwork should be attached to bottles by the method specified on the bottle label. We will not accept entries that haven't been pre-registered and pre-paid on this website.
Be meticulous about noting any special ingredients that must be specified. Failure to note such ingredients may impact the judges' scoring of your entry.
Entries must specify carbonation level.
Entries in M2 must specify the varieties of fruit used.
Entries in M3 must specify the types of spices used.
Entries in M4 Specialty/Experimental must describe the special nature of the mead, whether it is a combination of existing styles, an experimental mead, a historical mead, etc.
READ THE STYLE GUIDELINES CAREFULLY!
If you put your mead in the wrong sub-category it will not be eligible to medal.
Competition Officials
You can send an email to any of the following individuals via Contact.
- Mountain Top Mashers — Event Host
- Nick Perez — Club President
Sponsors
Mountain Top Mashers is proud to have the following sponsors for the 2025 Arizona Mead & Cider Homebrew Competition.
