Welcome to Beverage Testing Institute (BevTest), the creators of the World Spirits Championships®!
We are committed to delivering fair, consistent, and insightful evaluations to highlight your spirits.
Submissions for BevTest’s 2026 Spirits Competitions and Reviews are now open! Pre-register by December 31st and receive 10% off our new lower submission fee—our biggest entry fee saving of the year.
To view the 2026 competition schedule and register your spirits, simply log in or sign up below.
We look forward to helping you gain the recognition your products deserve!
If you are new to Beverage Testing Institute (BevTest), please register your company, set a password for your client portal and confirm it.
Once you do that and press the button below, you will be taken to the form to submit your products.
If you have already registered,
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- 100-point based score
- Confidential constructive criticism and feedback from trade buyers
- Use of downloadable digital logo
- Two-year publication of review on Tastings.com for all awarded wines (will include score, medal, tasting note, pairing suggestions, category info, and more)
- Results cross-posted on wine-searcher.com
- “Buy-It-Now” button that links your wines’ review page(s) to your e-commerce solution and/or online retailers of your choice.
- Promo materials available for download on your portal
- Small, focused flights blind tasted by expert trade buyers and gatekeepers
Registration deadline: December 31st.
Send samples by their respected category deadline
Ship 2 x 750 mL sample bottles (or the equivalent) or 3x 750 mL if you opt into the Packaging Competition to:
The Lab
OK Imports, LLC
4849 N. Milwaukee Ave, Suite 303
Chicago, IL 60630 USA
P: 773-930-4080
Please note: To comply with shipping regulations and to avoid a fine, you must include ASR (Adult Signature Required) in the reference field of your airway bill and affix an ASR sticker to the outside of your package.
Rules of Entry & More
- All products must be commercially available in any country at the time of publication, liquid must be the same as that which is currently in-market.
- No results will be released or published without payment.
- Clients who submit before or on a deadline and cancel their submission within two weeks after that deadline, can opt for a full refund or a credit on their account.
- Clients who submit after a deadline and cancel their submission will only receive a credit on their account, they will not have the option for a refund. You may replace your submission with a different product at no additional cost.
- All submissions that have been reviewed by the panel will be published on tastings.com, no exceptions.
- Not recommended reviews will have a private review page on tastings.com, that is not searchable, nor found by search engines. A link will be sent to the client to see the panel's critique.
- Wine and Beer category results are released 45 days from their submission deadline.
- Spirits category results are released 60 days from their submission deadline.
- Priority results are released and published 15 days after receipt of product.
- Rush results are released and published 5 business days after receipt of product.
- Private consulting results are released to the client 30 days from receipt of product and clients are given the option to publish and license the results.
- We publish the most current review for a given Spirit, RTD, Beer, or FMB so that our audience knows the quality level of the brand currently in the market
Usage Policy
- We do not accept sponsorship or advertising from any alcoholic beverage brand.
- Participation in BevTest’s tastings and competitions is completely voluntary.
- Use of unauthorized copies or approximations of BevTest’s logos for any purpose is not allowed.
- All uses of BevTest’s name and content in press releases must be approved by BevTest prior to dissemination.
- You may submit a press release featuring our name, reviews, and awards, or any trade print ads featuring our results and logo, by sending it to us at support@bevtest.com for approval.
- It is our policy to allow licensed, approved reprints of the total results of any specific, individual tasting session for advertising purposes for a specified period of time.
- If you wish to license our category results or review content, contact us at consulting@bevtest.com No scraping or indexing allowed, violators will be punished.