Overall:
134 Competitive Entries
3 Non-Competitive Entries
Best of Show Winner:
Terry Estrin
Vancouver, BC
"Black Currant - Fireweed Melomel"
Category One: Show Mead (39 Entries)
1st Place: Micah Millspaw
Oconomowoc, WI
"96 Orrange Blossom"
2nd Place: Ron Barnes
Abiline, TX
"West Texas Special"
3d Place: Al Korzonas
Palos Hills, IL
"#9703"
Category 2: Traditional (6 Entries)
1st Place: Ron Lunder/Mountain Meadows Mead
Westwood, CA
"Honeymoon Nectar"
2d Place: Jeff Rose
Chelmsford, MA
"Dr. Moist's Tupelo Mead"
3d Place: Claire Desrosiers/Daniel Dingras
Chepachet, RI
Category 3: Melomel (48 Entries)
1st Place: Terry Estrin
Vancouver, BC
"Black Currant - Fireweed
Melomel"
2d Place: David Myers
Boulder, CO
"Black Raspberry Blossom"
3d Place: Ron Barnes
Abilene, TX
"Jamaican Joy"
Category 4: Cyser (11 Entries)
1st Place: Chuck Wettergreen
Geneva, IL
"Custom Press Cyser"
2d Place: Bill Pfeiffer
Brighton, MI
"Pick Me Up and Put Me Down
Cyser"
3d Place: Paul Gatza
Sunshine, CO
"Along Came a Spider and
Sat Down Be Cyser"
Category 5: Pyment (14 Entries)
1st Place: Brian Myers
Beach Haven, Auckland, New
Zealand
"42"
2d Place: Chuck Wettergreen
Geneva, IL
"Fox Grape Pyment"
3d Place: Bill Pfeiffer
Brighton, MI
"Medoc Pyment"
Category 6: Open/Mixed (6 entries)
1st Place: Bill Pfeiffer
Brighton, MI
"Ginger Mint"
2d Place: Ed Measom
Orlando, FL
"Breakfast Mead"
3d Place: Corrine Parker
Reseda, CA
"Apple-Cinnamon Mead"
Category 7: Metheglin (9 Entries)
1st Place: Ron Lunder/Mountain Meadows Mead
Westwood, CA
"Spice Nectar"
2d Place: Keith Reding
St Louis, MO
"Cracklin Rosie Metheglin"
3d Place: Marie Verheyen
Novi, MI
"Bochet"
Category 8: Braggot (4 Entries)
1st Place: Bill Pfeiffer
Brighton, MI
"Wheat Braggot"
2d Place: Stephen Rosenzweig
Ontario, NY
"Braggin' Braggot"
3d Place: Al Korzonas
Palos Hills, IL
"Smoked Braggot"
Congratulations to all, and thanks for entering. We had our first
"Outside of the US" winners this year! Score sheets will be going
out
within a week, and Mazers within the month. They are done now,
and are
very impressive.
The caliber of entries was stunning again this year. We saw the
increased
and very welcome use of oak aging, very good sweetness-to-acid balance
control, and a mind-boggling diversity of ingredients.
We apologize to all for the delay in getting judging completed.
Our
number of judges and available dates was somewhat limited by circumstances
beyond our control, and we refuse to do more than one round per judge
per
day for safety reasons.
Again, our thanks.
Ken Schramm
Troy, MI
