Your Honey or Your Life
Thank you for your interest in the Your Honey or Your Life mead competition organized by
, Portland, OR.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.
Entry Registration is Open
7 entries have been added to the system as of 8:35 AM, PST, Thursday, February 13, 2025.
0 paid entries are in the system as of 8:35 AM, PST, Thursday, February 13, 2025.
To add your entries into the system, please proceed through the registration process or log in if you already have an account.
Rules
This competition is open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older. No Cannabis/CBD meads allowed!
All mailed entries must be received at the mailing location by the shipping deadline - please allow for shipping time.
All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the drop-off 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.
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. Each flight will have at least one BJCP judge.
Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once.
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.
SPECIALTY CATEGORY
(Custom Style 35A) - Mead of Lore – Look to the Stars!
The Mead of Lore returns but with a slight change…
For 2025 The Mead of Lore looks to the stars for inspiration.
Have you ever watched or played in your favorite science fiction property and thought “What does Asari Honey Mead or Andorian Ice Wine actually taste like?” Well, now is your chance to create that flavor yourself through the Mead of Lore. Like previous years, your Mead of Lore entry is open to any and all styles of mead. The only requirement is you use ingredients that buck tradition to fit a theme, or maybe a yeast type, or anything you can imagine as long as it feels like it belongs in any of the following sci-fi fandoms: Star Wars, Dune, Star Trek, Mass Effect, or Warhammer 40k. Like before, please include short one or two paragraph explanation of how your mead fits into the setting it inspired. Happy brewing! ## I added two more fandoms to try and open up some options. Mass Effect and Warhammer 40k have such deep lore, it creates a lot of potential. Let me know.
Special category entries will count towards your total entries (after 4 entries discount rate applies). We only need 2 bottles. This category is not judged as part of the larger competition and is not eligible for Best of Show or a category win. The judging for this category will be livestreamed as we announce the category winners and Best of Show on August 13th.
Entry Acceptance Rules
Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 3
Each entry will consist of 2 capped or corked bottles that are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely. Min
12oz brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green and clear glass will be accepted, as well as corked bottles. No swing top bottles will be accepted. 6oz and 10oz bottles will be accepted.
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.
Be meticulous about noting any special ingredients that must be specified. Failure to note such ingredients may impact the judges' scoring of your entry.
Competition Official
You can send an email to any of the following individuals via Contact.
- Lee Hedgmon — Competition Coordinator
Sponsors
The Barreled Bee, LLC is proud to have the following sponsors for the Your Honey or Your Life.