Our annual celebration of all things mead! Drink mead, learn how to make mead, celebrate mead! Also, it’s a fun excuse for a mini-Renaissance faire! Music, Vendors, Knights, Food, and more!
Featuring music by Thunder and Spice and sword fighting demos by Knights of the Fiat Lux!!
Drinks - Our friends from Honeygirl Meadery will be joining us again with their meads!
BMC Brewery - try out a collaboration of a NEW braggot (beer and mead)
Fair Game Beverage - grab a mixed drink
Food - Lilly Den Farm - bringing the smoker for amazing meats
Ta Contento - Mexican fast food
Metal Brix Cafe - coffee, snacks and fair food
Kingston 99 Kitchen - NEW this year - Jamaican food
Family Friendly! Free event - except for food and drinks. Rain or Shine! Bring your friends! Come in costume! (We will be!)
Sign Up for Mead Tasting
Sign up for VIP Mead Tasting - Sold Out! Walkup mead tasting will be available on a first come, first served basis for both Starrlight Mead and Honeygirl Meadery with a line outside the Mead Hall.
Photos of Mead Fest 2018 taken by Greg Stewart
Vendors Confirmed for Mead Fest 2023
Glimmerfae Creations - fairy wings, ear cuffs, crowns
ZenJumps Chainmaille - chainmaille and scalemaille jewlery
SnoEscape - shaved ice
The Dapper Kraken - fabric arts
Finklepott’s Fairy Hair - sparkle for your hair, appointment signups here
Custom Creature Creations - face painting, henna, glitter tattoos
Cauldron, Loom & Forge - candles, jewelry
Beekeeper, Inc - honeys
CLAWS - information on wildlife rescue, birds
Blue Ridge Pepper Patch - hot peppers, jellies
Lilac Light - crystals, prints
Chatham Axes - try ax throwing, throw a few or throw all day
Lockheart Design - woodworking - cutting and charcuterie boards
Chimerical Reaction - leather and chainmail clothing and accessories
Hoddmimis Holt - handcrafted runes, wood crafts
Hedge and Henge - herbs, stones, crafts
James Maxstadlt, author - NEW this year - fantasy author
Backyard Butterflies - Butterfly education
Samhain Faerie Creations - crocheted critters
Hollow Hills Couture - NEW this year - horned headdresses, rune bags, clothing
Secret Paper Co - NEW this year - cards, notebooks, tote bags
Laughter Fairy - NEW this year - laughter yoga in the garden
Venus and Vitirol - NEW this year - electroformed raw crystal jewelry
Blazon - NEW this year - board game themed around Medieval heraldry
il gatto studios - NEW this year - ceramic jewelry and dishes
The Grove Teas & Botanical Gifts - herbal teas, gifts, treasures
Schedule of Events
Knights Sword Fighting - 12:30 pm
Tour the Starrlight Mead Production – 12:45 pm
CLAWS Bird Release – 1 pm
Music: Thunder and Spice – 1 pm
Laughter Yoga with the Laughter Fairy – 1 pm
Samples of Locally Available Meads - 1:30 pm - free, limited to the first 40 people
CLAWS Bird Release – 2 pm
Music: Thunder and Spice - 2 pm
Home Mead Making Demo & Raffle - 2 pm
Knights Sword Fighting - 2:30 pm
Tour the Starrlight Mead Production – 3 pm
CLAWS Bird Release – 3 pm
Music: Thunder and Spice - 3 pm
Laughter Yoga with the Laughter Fairy – 3:30 pm
Music: Thunder and Spice - 4 pm
Mead Club Private Tasting - 4 pm - Mead Club Members Only!