Thank you for your interest in the 2025 Mead Me In St. Louis (And Cider Me Too) organized by St. Louis Brews, St. Louis, MO.

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 Monday, July 7, 2025 8:00 AM, CDT.

Rules

"Mead Me In St. Louis (And Cider Me Too)" is a competition for only meads and ciders, and coincides with National Honey Month (September). Last year was the inaugural year for the competition with approximately 150 entries.

Because of the depth of judging pool in and around St. Louis, almost all meads and ciders were judged with two certified mead/cider judges, and we anticipate that we will be able to repeat that this year.

This competition is AHA and BJCP sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older.

All mailed entries must be received at the mailing location by the entry deadline - please allow for shipping time. Because we will be sorting just two days after the entry deadline, we will not be able to accept late entries.

All entries must be paid for with credit card / PayPal. Checks will not be accepted. There is a limit of 250 paid entries. Once 250 paid entries have been registered and paid for, the unpaid ones will be disqualified.

All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the entry deadline.

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, mailed 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. All possible effort will be made to combine similar styles. All meads and ciders in combined categories will be judged according to the style they were originally entered in.

Qualified judging of all entries is the primary goal of our event. Judges will evaluate and score each entry. Each flight will have at least one BJCP judge, although almost all will have two certified mead or cider judges.

There will be a Mead/Cider Best of Show, that will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of the top winners of meads and ciders. Medals will be awarded to the top three Best of Show beers.

There will also be a Mead-Only Best of Show that is sponsored by the National Honey Board. Winners of this BOS will receive prizes in the form of honey donated by the Honey Board.

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2

Each entry will consist of two 10 to 12 ounce capped bottles void of all identifying information (raised lettering on re-used commercial beer bottles is OK). Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely. Cans will be accepted.

12oz brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green and clear glass will be accepted. Please try to avoid entering corked bottles, swing tops, bombers, wine bottles, and anything else that may not fit neatly in a standard 24-bottle case. Such bottles make it difficult to stack cases.

Bottles will not be returned to contest entrants.

Entry forms need not be submitted with entries. However, bottle labels are required which can be printed out from this site.

Brewers are not limited to one entry per category or style. However, there is a limit of 8 entries total per brewer.

Competition Officials

You can send an email to any of the following individuals via Contact.

• Jeff Muse — Head Judge(s)
• Mike Walters — Organizer

Sponsors

St. Louis Brews is proud to have the following sponsors for the 2025 Mead Me In St. Louis (And Cider Me Too).

Alpha Brewing Company

 

Shipping location and judging site

National Honey Board

 

Awarding honey prizes for mead and honey beer winners.

Steampunk Brewing

St. Louis, MO

Drop-off location for entries.

Down The Hall Homebrew

Belleville, IL

Drop-off location for entries

Missouri Malt And Mill

St. Louis, MO

Drop-off location for entries.