2023 MBKA Honey Show
2 – 3 September 2023
Venue: Elm Court Garden Centre Gillingham ME7 3JQ
Our annual Honey Show is usually held the first week of September. This offers our members a chance to show and display not just honey, but also hive products such as wax, candles and of course mead. If you’ve never entered a show before don’t let that put you off. It’s an opportunity to show off your beekeeping achivements (or that of your bees!) you can find tips and tricks to showing online or ask the show secretary or other members. 2023 show results are below with our Cup and Award winners are at the bottom of the page!
2023 Results
| Class | Description | First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Number of Entries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 jars of extracted honey - light | Archie McLellan | Mark Ballard | 2 | |||
| 2 | 2 jars of extracted honey - medium | Sonia Belsey | John Chapman | Archie McLellan | Melvyn Belsey | 5 | |
| 3 | 2 jars of extracted honey - dark | Mark Ballard | 1 | ||||
| 4 | 2 jars of granulated or soft set honey | Archie McLellan | 3 | ||||
| 5 | 2 jars of chunk honey | Archie McLellan | Mark Ballard | 2 | |||
| 6 | Composite; honey, wax and frame | Mark Ballard | Archie McLellan | 2 | |||
| 7 | 1 shallow frame for extraction | Mark Ballard | Archie McLellan | Sonia Belsey | 3 | ||
| 8 | 2 sections | Mark Ballard | 1 | ||||
| 9 | 2 containers of cut comb | Archie McLellan | Mark Ballard | 2 | |||
| 10 | Novices - 2 jars honey clear or granulated | Jane Lumley-Hunt | Karon Thomas-West | 2 | |||
| 11 | Gift - 1 jar extracted honey | Sonia Belsey | John Chapman | Mark Ballard | 3 | ||
| 12 | Gift - 1 jar granulated or soft set honey | Mark Ballard | John Chapman | 2 | |||
| 13 | Commercial - 3 identical containers | John Chapman | Archie McLellan | Mark Ballard | 4 | ||
| 14 | A cake of beeswax | Archie McLellan | Mark Ballard | 3 | |||
| 15 | Candles - 2 plain | Archie McLellan | John Chapman | Mark Ballard | 3 | ||
| 16 | A moulded beeswax object | Archie McLellan | Mark Ballard | Simon Marshall | Sonia Belsey | John Chapman | 7 |
| 17 | Sweet Mead | John Chapman | Sonia Belsey | Archie McLellan | 3 | ||
| 18 | Dry Mead | Archie McLellan | John Chapman | Simon Marshall | 5 | ||
| 19 | Honey cake to this years recipe | Sue Chapman | Sonia Belsey | Karon Thomas-West | Melvyn Belsey | Mark Ballard | 6 |
| 20 | Honey biscuits or cookies | Mark Ballard | Sonia Belsey | 2 | |||
| 21 | Colour photo about bees or beekeeping | Sonia Belsey | Sue Chapman | Mark Ballard | 12 | ||
| 22 | Craft relating to bees or beekeeping | Sonia Belsey | Esther McLellan | Archie McLellan | 3 | ||
| Total Entries | 76 |
2023 Cup and Award Winners
| The Neves Silver Memorial Cup (highest aggregate number of points) | Mark Ballard |
| The Chairman’s Silver Challenge Cup (best frame in class 7) | Mark Ballard |
| The Bryden Memorial Cup (best composite entry in class 6) | Mark Ballard |
| The Gowar Memorial Cup (best Mead) | John Chapman |
| The Blaxland Silver Salver (best sections in class 8) | Mark Ballard |
| The Rose Bowl (best cake) | Sue Chapman |
| The Novice Cup (best exhibit in the novice classes) | Jane Lumley-Hunt |
| The Holland Bowl (best honey in class 13 – commercial) | John Chapman |
| The Chapman Cup (best photograph) | Sonia Belsey |
| The Clueit Cup (best honey in show) | Sonia Belsey |
| The Wax Cup (best wax in class 14) | Archie McLellan |
| The Dennis Harvey Memorial Award (best entry in the Novice class and takes the form of a beekeeping book of the winner’s choice) | Jane Lumley-Hunt |