Registration competition
Please register your products online. You will then receive a registration confirmation from us. By registering, you assure that all submitted products meet our craft criteria.
Our craft criteria
• Crafted in small factories
• Spirits from independent companies
• Free of artificial and nature-identical additives
• Free from preservatives, free from flavor extracts
• Free from synthetic sugars and sugars that are chemically produced
• Free of genetically modified raw materials
The registration fees are:
1st sample – 215 €
2nd and 3rd sample – each 165 €
from the 4th sample – each 95 €
Submit sample
An original, labeled bottle with a capacity of at least 0.35 L must be submitted for each product. Smaller bottles must be added to at least 0.35 L.
Samples should be sent to:
Craft Spirits Berlin
Portal 1/Erdgeschoss
Erkelenzdamm 59/61
10999 Berlin
Germany
Registration and Submission Deadline
The registration and submission deadline is Friday, January 26, 2024. Samples arriving later cannot be considered.
Customs Clearance
For participants from abroad: Please follow your national customs regulations when shipping the samples. We recommend to attach a pro-forma invoice indicating the content as “No commercial value – goods not for sale”.
For smooth importation into Germany: “No commercial value” is considered for goods up to a quantity of five samples and up to a value of 50 euros per product group. Individual types of spirits are considered to be one product group each.
For shipments from non-EU countries: Please send your samples duty paid. The pro-forma invoice must be affixed on the outside of the parcel. Attention: Please send us a copy of your pro-forma invoice before the parcel arrives to info@craftspiritsberlin.de.
Confirmation of reception
As soon as your products have arrived and have been recorded by us, you will receive a confirmation of receipt.
We are happy to answer any questions you may have
E: info@craftspiritsberlin.de
T: +49 179 260 45 17 (Thomas Kochan)
T: +49 163 46 48 688 (Theo Ligthart)
Do you have another question? Here are the answers:
Again, how does it all work? In a nutshell: You send us a sample of your drink, our expert jury tastes and evaluates your product and then awards gold, silver and bronze medals. The registration and entry deadline for the next competition is January 26, 2024.
What happens after registration? As soon as we receive your product, we catalogue it. We check the name, product category and alcohol content. You will receive a confirmation of receipt.
How can I imagine the tasting? In the past, the international expert jury met in Berlin for a blind tasting. Since Covid, this has been decentralized: We fill all the drinks into numbered miniature bottles and send them to the jury members. The jurors enter their assessments in a database developed especially for us. This year, the tasting will take place from February 13 to 15, 2024.
What does the expert jury assess? Smell, taste, balance, visual appearance and typicity are judged. A maximum of 100 points can be achieved. Our jurors taste “blindly”: they know the category of the product and the alcohol content, but do not know which product and which producer stand behind.
What is evaluated exactly? Criteria with different impact are included in the evaluation: visual appearance (maximum 5 points); nose (clean aroma [7 points], typicity [5 points], balance aroma/alcohol [14 points]); palate (clean aroma [8 points], typicity [5 points], balance aroma/alcohol [16 points]); overall opinion (40 points). Each product is assessed individually – i.e. not in comparison with other products. In addition, the jurors give a written evaluation.
How do you get a medal? Gold is awarded to all products with more than 93 points, silver requires 87 points and bronze 80 points. So there can be several gold, silver and bronze medals.
What other awards are there? The title “Best in Class” goes to the product with the highest score within each category. The “Craft Spirit of the Year” award goes to the winner who scored the most points of the entire competition. The special award “Craft Distillery of the Year” in bronze, silver and gold goes to the distilleries with the most medal points. The counting principle is: Best in Class = 5 points, Gold = 3 points, Silver = 2 points, Bronze = 1 point. To become a member of the “World’s Best Craft Distilleries”, producers must win three gold medals within three years.
When and how will I receive the results? The winners will be announced at the award ceremony on March 2, 2024 in Berlin. All attending manufacturers will receive their certificates and medal stickers on site. On March 3, 2024 the medal winners will be published on our website. Winners who cannot attend the awards ceremony will receive their awards by post. We will directly send the score card and the written assessment to you by email from March 3, 2024.
How much is the participation? The first product submitted is 215 euros. The second and third product cost 165 euros each. The fourth and all further submissions are 95 euros each. – That’s all. There are no hidden additional costs.
What do I get for the money? All award-winning beverages receive a certificate as well as 50 medal stickers. Each submitted product will get a written evaluation by the jury. And to get to know each other in person, all producers will receive two free tickets to the festive awards ceremony on March 2, 2024 in Berlin. To all winners who cannot attend the event we will send the certificates and medal stickers by post.
Further questions? Write to info@craftspiritsberlin.de. We will answer immediately.