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MeadCon East & MeadCon West 2023
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MeadCon East & MeadCon West 2023

By March 17, 2023September 18th, 2023No Comments

For 2023 we will be doing 2 separate smaller Meadcons, one on each coast.

 

MeadCon East

September 30 & October 1 – Roanoake VA
Hotel Roanoke & conference center
110 Shenandoah Ave NW
Roanoke, Va 24016
540-985-5900

Breakfast, lunch and continuous snacks provided each day.
9/29 
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Mead Social.  We will be in the former speakeasy bar at the hotel.  The bar will serve selected meads from sponsor meaderies.
9/30
8:00 am – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:10 am – 9:30 am Welcome and Intro
9:40 am – 10:40 am presentation #1 (open, looking for speakers)
10:50 am – 11:50 am Packaging, branding and Marketing Panel discussion (Watermark Design and Niagara Label)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:10 pm – 2:10 pm presentation #3 (open, looking for speakers)
2:20 pm – 3:20 pm The TTB and You (Frank Knizner, Lehrman Beverage Law)
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Pro Mead Makers Panel Q&A.  Topic: going from home mead maker to pro.
10/1
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:10 AM – 10:10 AM Trademarks: Landmines and Lessons Learned (Steve Ausband, Atheling Meadworks)
10:20 AM – 11:20 AM presentation #6 (open, looking for speakers)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Virginia Mead Cup winner announcement
12:00 – 12:30 PM Closing and Farewell
Vendors:
We have vendor space in the conference center near the lecture / presentation room.  Sponsor meaderies can set up a table and display in the vendor area.   We will have a time where the hotel will be pouring samples of sponsor meadery meads and will be promoting this time block to get the public in for trying mead.
Additional Event: 
There will be a mead dinner Saturday night.  We are working with the hotel for a multi course dinner coordinated with mead.  We will use select meads from sponsor meaderies. This will be ticketed separately and promoted locally.  Attendees will have a discount code.
Tickets:
Regular Registration (ends Aug 30)
Full event $225.00
Saturday only $175.00
Sunday only $100.00
Late registration (ends Sept 24)
Full event $275.00
Saturday only $200.00
Sunday only $125.00
Vendors: $100
Sponsor: $500

MeadCon West

Join us at MeadCon West 2023!

We’ll be at Lost Cause Meadery in San Diego on October 23, 2023

5328 Banks St. Suite B, San Diego, ca 92110

Schedule:

9am – 9:50 – Frank Golbeck – Crowdfunding your Meadery
10am – 10:50 – Jeremy & Michelle Skandalis – Grass Roots Metheglin – Sourcing Strategies for Building Cash-Crop Economies,
& Metheglin Making Tips
11am – 11:50 – Thomas Hubbe – Best Practices when Buying Honey
Noon – 1pm – Lunch
1pm – 1:50 – Travis Hammond – Persistence in Competition
2pm – 2:50 – Billy Beltz – Different Models of Tasting Rooms (Brewery & Wine) and their Goals
3pm – 3:50 – Brian Woerner – Global Honey Market, Trends and Origins.
4pm – Mead Share and Happy Hour

 

Click Here to Register!