More than 70 made-with-honey spirits competed for medals at the 2023 Honey Spirits Competition! Congratulations to all of our winners!
The Honey Spirits Competition featured eleven spirits style categories, including a category that contained products that used honey as the primary distillate. The submitted spirits were judged on nose, appearance, palate, balance and finish. A design category also recognized the best honey or honey bee-related packaging graphics.
Best of Show: Gold
Honey Pear Bourbon Ratafia Mountain State Spirits Bridgeport, WV
Best of Show: Silver
Honey Whiskey with Natural Flavor Manatawny Still Works Pottstown, PA
Best of Show: Bronze
Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur Honey House Distillery Durango, CO
Gold Medals
Bourbon/Whiskey
Honey Whiskey with Natural Flavor – Manatawny Still Works
Design
Maid of the Meadow – Denning's Point Distillery
Liqueurs/Specialty Spirits
Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur – Honey House Distillery
Honey Pear Bourbon Ratafia – Mountain State Spirits
Rum
Denver Distillery Navy Strength Spiced Rum – Denver Distillery
Spirits Distilled from Honey
Distillers Reserve – Big Island Distillers Inc. /DBA 12th Hawaii Distiller
Vodka
Vodka – Denmark Distilling
Silver Medals
Bourbon/Whiskey
Copper Run Small Batch Honey – Copper Run Distillery