2026 Centurion Award Winner · Flagstaff · Breweries & Meaderies
Drinking Horn Meadery
2026 Centurion Award winner. Best of Flagstaff Breweries & Meaderies.
Live Simply. Drink Simply.
Drinking Horn Meadery is the 2026 Centurion Award winner for Best Meadery in Flagstaff, Arizona, operating since 2014. Selected by published criteria and independently verified. Page last reviewed 2026-06-03.
Why they won
Flagstaff's award-winning meadery — Mazer Cup and Valkyrie's Horn gold medals, a decade of small-batch mead from local honey, and a downtown Mead Hall that's become a community fixture.
Drinking Horn was born in the Flagstaff pines in 2014, when Evan — a fish biologist from a family of beekeepers — brewed thirty gallons of mead in five flavors for his and Kelly's wedding. The party drained every drop and barely touched the beer, which felt like a sign (the word “honeymoon,” after all, traces back to mead). A turn on Guy Fieri's Food Network show six months in turned a quiet wholesale plan into a downtown taproom, and Whole Foods shelves within the month.
Today the Mead Hall on Route 66 pours around twenty-five small-batch meads made from all-natural, locally sourced honey — traditional and spiced metheglins, bright fruit meads, and seasonal one-offs — in a warm, wood-and-honey room built for board games, weddings and slow high-country afternoons. The ethos is right there on the glass: Live Simply, Drink Simply, with a genuine devotion to the bees behind every bottle.
Highlights
- Gold Medal — Mazer Cup International, the world's largest mead competition
- Gold Medals — Valkyrie's Horn (Metheglin and Lemon-Raspberry meads)
- ~25 small-batch meads made from all-natural, locally sourced honey
- Featured on Guy Fieri's Food Network show
- Mead Hall opened 2020 — a downtown Route 66 taproom & community space
- Stocked in Whole Foods; locally owned since 2014
What they offer
- Mead Hall taproom: Flights and pours of ~25 rotating small-batch meads on Route 66.
- Traditional & Metheglin meads: Classic honey and spiced meads, including a gold-medal metheglin.
- Fruit meads: Including the gold-medal Lemon-Raspberry.
- Online mead shop: Order bottles online and find stockists via Find Mead Near You.
- Private events & weddings: The Mead Hall hosts weddings, game nights and gatherings.
Verified profile
Mr. Centurion says“Mead is the oldest libation in civilized company, and Flagstaff keeps it in worthy hands. Gold from the Mazer Cup, honey from local hives, and a hall where strangers leave as friends — Drinking Horn has more than earned its horn.”
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Awarded by the published Centurion criteria.
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