06/08/2026
Heads up, friends in southern Minnesota.
Perplebunny's Axe House is packing up the targets and heading to the Great Northern Viking Festival next weekend, June 13th & 14th in Mankato, Minnesota.
Come hang out in the Viking village, learn the ropes of axe throwing from our crew, and see if you have what it takes to be a true Viking.
Sunday is officially Family Day, so bring the whole clan out for an awesome weekend. Grab your presale tickets now before gate prices go up.
⭐Hear the call, mead makers of the North! Sign up deadline June 5th!!!
The horns are being raised, the honey is flowing, and the finest brews are being summoned to the Great Northern Viking Festival Mead-Off.
Home brewers are invited to craft their best honey wine and compete for honor, glory, and a place among this year’s champions. Whether this is your first batch or a recipe you’ve brewed before, there is a place for you in the contest.
Mead-Off Categories
✨Beginner Mead
New to the craft? Enter a traditional honey wine.
✨Open Mead Category
Have a favorite recipe? Bring forth your best mead, any style or flavor.
✨Summer Solstice Mead
Brew a mead inspired by the spirit of Nordic midsummer.
Open to all mead makers.
Each category will crown a winner, and from those champions we will name one Best of Show.
Judges:
TBA
People’s Choice
Festival guests will also vote for their favorite mead based on appearance, aroma, creativity, and story.
(No public sampling of homebrew will take place.)
Prizes will be announced soon.
👉Sign up today to enter you Mead in the contest:
greatnorthernvikingfestival.com
Bring forth the mead worthy of the sagas.