• Test Format

    Two-hour and forty-five minute exam with seven written questions and three meads judged. Each question and each mead will be worth 10 points of the final exam. The exam session is broken into a two hour writing period and a 45 minute tasting period; the two periods will not be mixed. Writing will precede tasting.


  • Written Section

    1. Program and Ethics

      1. Describe the Mead Judge part of the BJCP program

      2. Judging procedures and ethics (15 T/F questions)

    2. Balance and Style Attributes question

    3. Honey question (varietal mead style question)

    4. Ingredient question (non-varietal mead style question)

    5. Identifying/Troubleshooting Mead Characteristics and Faults question

    6. Style/Process Control question

    7. Scenario-based Troubleshooting question


  • Tasting Section

    Judge three meads as in a competition using variants of the standard scoresheets. Include one varietal mead, one melomel and one other mead (one mead from each major BJCP category). At least one should be flawed and at least one should be a very good example. Avoid the use of open category meads.