Mead competitions outside the US
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Have you tried doing an internet search on "Canadian mead competitions 2023"?
canadahomebrews.ca
You'll have to look at each competition. to see if they have mead/cider categories, but it looks like both the "Saskatoon Headhunters Brewing Competition" and the "Pro/Am Brew Challenge" have categories for mead.
Canadian Homebrew Competitions
Homebrew competitions are a great way to get some feedback on the beers, ciders and meads you’ve been making, and potentially win some new brewing gear (or an endless supply of t-shirts). If you’re…
canadahomebrews.ca
You'll have to look at each competition. to see if they have mead/cider categories, but it looks like both the "Saskatoon Headhunters Brewing Competition" and the "Pro/Am Brew Challenge" have categories for mead.
Even though the MJCP mead judging course leaves a lot to be desired. And I have never met a certified mead judge that added that to his overly prestigious beer judge program certificate accolades. That couldn't keep the idea of each separate in their heads. Too many times, I have seen beer judges turn in shit scorecards for meads I have entered. And said thus and so is a flaw. When thus and so is not a flaw in meads. And maybe what they pointed out was something I specifically searched for. You still might be hard-pressed to find any other judges in foreign lands that are equal or better. I think it could also be as much of a crap shot to enter in other comps in faraway lands and have any better judges.
Anyway, Hi friend. Long time no see. Hope you're well. If it were up to me, I would also have part of what you need to become a judge, which would be to send in some samples. I don't think you deserve to be a judge if you can't make a good mead. It's the same with beer and other spirits. I stopped entering because I found that the variability between one judge to the next was at far ends of the spectrum too many times. I could get a super high score for something at one competition, and the next get very low scores. I saw this and so many other things that made me lose faith in the judging so much so that I felt is was as much luck of the draw as anything else.. When one guy that sat next to the other judge on the same mead would say totally different things about the same mead. It became clear that the judges sucked.
I entered some things at a competition my last year and my last entry to the last comp of the year. I received 5 awards at one completion. Any other competitor would have been elated to win 5 medals in one competition. After I read the lower score sheets first and thought the judges comments and scores were way off base. It made me realize that if I thought they were too far off to appreciate. I thought to myself. How can I put any more faith in the rest of my grades that won me medals. So I offered to give them away to anyone who wanted them. Well. I got in trouble for doing that and was scolded in public on the FB group I was amonitor on. I think that should be private and in person. The same guy did this to me many times. And I thought to myself. You wouldn't scold one of your employees in front of the entire company. So why and the hell should you feel it's alright to publicly scold me in front of everyone all the time. I eventually got so tired of it I just quit being involved in the entire mead community. This same guy even said publically that everything I said was correct. But snow flakes were whining to him about me. And then after I just dropped out of al; things mead he even started saying things to others that were straight up lies and I would find out later after different mead comps were over. I was sick of his politic as he has a huge need to be the biggest thing on heart and was always wanting to be in the limelight and be recognized by everyone. I was feed up with the politics and just said f**k it.
Funny thing. None of my so-called friends even bothered to find out if I was alright or why/where did I go. And it was the lowly people that contacted me to thank me for all the hard work I had put into this thing called mead. And thanked me for teaching them to win medals and to see if I was okay. Go figure. When there is that much politics in different groups. And such disparity from one judge to the next. And some of the leaders. Including the guy I was talking about didn't even bother to take the exam themselves. It's no wonder things are so untidy.
Not sure what you are looking for Kaduses. But this is what you will find in every group regardless what it is. If it's big enough for people to gain something for personal gains. Or the bar is so low that the demarcated are seen as someone special. Humanity in it's finest LOL
