Meet our Judges
Elliott Ernst
Country's Top 100 World Class Bartenders and Mixologist, Rockford
Damian Langarica
TOP 100 World Class 2023, TOP 50 World Class 2022, Bartender at Next of Kin, Philadelphia
Katherine Iwinski
Bartender, Mixologist, Bar Manager at Take Flight Spirits, Chicago
Jason Deatherage
Lead bartender for The Gwen Hotel
Toshio Ueno DipWSET
Vice President, Sake School of America, Director of Sake Specialist at MTC, El Monte
Timothy King
President, Bar Consultant at Prohibition Bar Group, Cincinnati
Danny Shapiro
Founding partner in Scofflaw Group, Chicago