Best Breweries & Meaderies · Flagstaff, AZ
Drinking Horn Meadery was born in the pines of Flagstaff in 2014, when Kelly Czarnecki and Evan Anderson brewed thirty gallons of honey mead for their own wedding — and the wedding party drank every drop, barely touching the beer. Evan, a fish biologist whose family had always kept bees, took the hint. Six months after opening, Guy Fieri’s Guy’s Family Road Trip filmed them for its very first episode.
Everything is fermented simply: local Flagstaff honey from Mountain Top Honey, and never any sulfites or preservatives. In April 2020 they opened the Mead Hall on Historic Route 66 — a Norse-style gathering place of timber beams, fur-draped chairs, a stone fireplace, and drinking horns, where flights of small-batch mead are poured beneath mason-jar chandeliers.
All meads 13% ABV · Flights & pours at the Mead Hall, bottles & shipping at drinkinghornmeadery.com
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Google rating and counts as of July 2026; Tripadvisor ranks Drinking Horn #3 of 11 Flagstaff nightlife spots with a Travelers’ Choice award. Live ratings are always current on each platform.
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Drinking Horn Meadery is a family-owned meadery and Norse-style Mead Hall in downtown Flagstaff, Arizona, founded in 2014 by Kelly Czarnecki and Evan Anderson. It makes small-batch honey mead — no sulfites or preservatives, all 13% ABV — using local Flagstaff honey, and pours flights at its taproom at 108 E Historic Route 66.
Yes. It is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Breweries & Meaderies in Flagstaff, AZ — a verified, criteria-based award. Its meads have also won gold at the Mazer Cup International and Valkyrie’s Horn competitions, it holds a Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice award, and it was featured on the first episode of Guy Fieri’s Guy’s Family Road Trip.
The Mead Hall is at 108 E Historic Route 66 in downtown Flagstaff, Arizona (86001), open Sunday–Thursday 11am–10pm and Friday–Saturday 11am–11pm. It hosts live music, trivia, and tabletop-game nights, and several nearby restaurants deliver right to the hall.
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