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 back this year An Gorta Mor Memorial Pipe Band. Sword fighting demos by Knights of the Fiat Lux!!
Mead tasting by Starrlight Mead and Honeygirl Meadery
Drinks - BMC Brewery - try out a collaboration of a braggot (beer and mead)
Fair Game Beverage - grab a mixed drink
Koshu Sake Bar — try some sake
Food - Kingston 99 Kitchen - Jamaican food
Ta Contento - Mexican fast-food
Metal Brix Cafe - coffee, snacks and fair food
Kona Pizza Truck - pizza in a cone
Tasty Turkey-Q - turkey bbq and turkey legs
Family Friendly! Free event - except for food and drinks. Rain or Shine! Bring your friends! Come in costume! (We will be!)
Want to skip the line for a Mead Tasting at Mead Fest? We’ve got you covered! Sign up for a VIP Mead Tasting experience with mead wench Jessica. This mead tasting is a seated experience including samples of 8 meads and one reserve mead. (Walkup mead tasting also available in the Mead Hall.) Advanced purchase required!
Photos of Mead Fest 2018 taken by Greg Stewart
Vendors Confirmed for Mead Fest 2025
Glimmerfae Creations - art prints, jewelry, fantasy horns
The Dapper Kraken - fabric arts
Finklepott’s Fairy Hair - sparkle for your hair, appointment signups here
Custom Creature Creations - face painting, henna, glitter tattoos
Beekeeper, Inc - assorted varietal honeys
CLAWS - information on wildlife rescue, birds
Blue Ridge Pepper Patch - hot peppers, jellies
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
Hedge and Henge - herbs, stones, crafts
James Maxstadlt, author - fantasy author
Samhain Faerie Creations - crocheted critters
American Brewmaster - get your home mead making questions answered
Luci Belle Lu Design - chainmaille jewelry, spiritual gifts
Hawkins’ Honey - very local honey from Chatham County
ZenJumps Chainmaille - chainmaille jewelry
Venus and Vitriol - electroformed raw crystal jewelry
Molly Chopin, Artist - NEW this year - visionary art, painter
Barb Case Photography - NEW this year - wildlife photos
Shrike & Sundry - NEW this year - wire wrapped jewelry
Sovereign Spirit- NEW this year - organite products, jewelry
Lia Hillie Fine Art - NEW this year - prints, greeting cards
American Brewmaster - mead making supplies and advice
Rabbit Creations - Nordic & Viking inspired woodwork, games
Red Tree Leather Works - NEW this year - leather items
Knotbeard’s Jewlery - NEW this year - metal jewlery
Steven Xavier - NEW this year - tarot card readings
Schedule of Events
Music: Thunder and Spice - 12 pm
Knights Sword Fighting - 12:30 pm
Tour the Starrlight Mead Production – 1 pm
CLAWS Bird Release – 1 pm
Music: Thunder and Spice – 1 pm
Samples of Locally Available Meads - 1:30 pm - free, limited to the first 40 people
An Gorta Mor Memorial Pipe Band March In & Music – 2:00 pm
CLAWS Bird Release – 2 pm
Home Mead Making Demo & Raffle - 2:15 pm
Knights Sword Fighting - 2:30 pm
CLAWS Bird Release – 3 pm
Music: Thunder and Spice - 3 pm
Tour the Starrlight Mead Production – 3:15 pm
Mead Club Private Tasting - 4 pm - Mead Club Members Only!
CLAWS Bird Release – 4 pm