Drinking Horn Mead Hall
Best Meadery in Flagstaff · AZ
Flagstaff’s mead hall.
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.
Signature meads
- Traditional — just water, yeast, and Flagstaff orange-blossom honey — dry, smooth, and 13% ABV
- Blue-Tooth — a still blueberry mead named for Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson, the king who united the Danes
- Lemon Raspberry — their competition darling — double gold at the Mazer Cup International and Valkyrie’s Horn
- Apple, Strawberry & Pomegranate — the always-on-tap fruit meads, each a clean 13%
- Seasonal & Dragon Series — rotating small batches like Mango Reaper, Elderberry, Coffee, and Metheglin
All meads 13% ABV · Flights & pours at the Mead Hall, bottles & shipping at drinkinghornmeadery.com
Customers said it first.
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4.9★ · 470 reviews Read reviews → Tripadvisor
4.9★ · Travelers’ Choice · #3 nightlife in Flagstaff Read reviews → Yelp
146 reviews Read reviews → Untappd
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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.
Why this business cleared the bar.
Selection is by the published criteria, evaluated on public evidence. Drinking Horn Mead Hall met every one.
- ✓Years in operation. Pouring mead in Flagstaff since 2014, with the mead hall's website online since 2015.
- ✓Sustained online presence. An established website, with archived web history spanning nine years.
- ✓Established customer track record. 470 Google reviews, a deep record of customer feedback.
- ✓Liked by customers and the community. 4.9 stars on Google, held steady across hundreds of reviews.
- ✓Recognition in the local community. Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube profiles linked from the mead hall's own website.
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Award record
2025 Centurion Award
Best Meadery in Flagstaff Flagstaff, AZ · Awarded under the 2025 evaluationVisit Drinking Horn Mead Hall
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Clean, checkable facts about Drinking Horn Mead Hall.
- Trading name
- Drinking Horn Meadery
- Category
- Meadery & taproom (Breweries & Meaderies)
- Founded
- 2014, in Flagstaff, Arizona
- Founders
- Kelly Czarnecki & Evan Anderson
- Mead Hall
- 108 E Historic Route 66, Flagstaff, AZ 86001
- Hours
- Sun–Thu 11am–10pm · Fri–Sat 11am–11pm
- Phone
- (928) 266-0425
- What they make
- Small-batch honey mead — no sulfites or preservatives, all 13% ABV
- Centurion Award
- Best Meadery in Flagstaff — 2025
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Frequently asked questions.
What is Drinking Horn Meadery?
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.
Is Drinking Horn Meadery award-winning?
Yes. It is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Meadery 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.
Where is the Drinking Horn Mead Hall and when is it open?
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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