<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div align="center"><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" style="width:6.25in;background:white;border:solid #dddddd 1.0pt"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" style="width:6.25in"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt"><h3 align="center" style="text-align:center">The Mazer Cup International Home & Commercial Mead Competition<u></u><u></u></h3><h4 align="center" style="text-align:center">Judge the Finest Meads in the World<u></u><u></u></h4><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">Competition: March 20-21, 2015</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Public Event: Mead Mixer - Friday March 21<u></u><u></u></span></strong></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050"><br>Dear Mead Judges,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">The 2015 Mazer Cup International Mead Competition will be held on March 20th and 21st at the Omni Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield, Colorado, located between Boulder and Denver.  The event will have both amateur and commercial competitions of approximately 500 and 400 entries respectively, the largest mead-only competitions in the world. We will also be hosting the yearly meeting of the American Mead Makers Association (AMMA), and a <a href="http://www.mazercup.com/mcimc_meadmixer_nfo.html" target="_blank">Mead Mixer</a> tasting event.  Please register through the volunteer section of the website at the link below and feel free to email me if you have an questions.  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050"><a href="http://www.mazercup.com/volunteer/" target="_blank">http://www.mazercup.com/volunteer/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">I hope to see you all at the Mazer Cup in March.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">Ryan Thomas<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">Judge Director, MCI 2015<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div><br></div>