Paul Tanguay and Jacques Bezuidenhout discussing a score
Ultimate Spirits Challenge 2016 judges and back of house team
Andy Seymour taking a break between flights
Brian Bevalacqua about to take flights to judging panels
Leo DeGroff and Sean Kenyon
Sean Kenyon in the USC kitchen
Dave Roochvarg preparing a cocktail flight
Sean Kenyon and Steve Fette pouring flights
Leo DeGroff, back of house team leader, preparing flights
Paul Tanguay and Jacques Bezuidenhout
Tad Carducci figuring out spit cup methodology
Leo DeGroff keeping tabs on flights
Sean Kenyon, David Wondrich and Joaquin Simo
Steve Fette placing flights for blind tasting
Cocktails accompanied by their base spirit ingredient for complete evaluation
JoaquinSimo and Dave Wondrich discussing a spirit
Judging Chairman Paul Pacult with Andy Seymour
USC cocktails - Troy Clarke measuring precisely
Gregg Glaser and Francis Schott evaluating a Cosmopolitan
The intensity of precise measurement to ensure all cocktails are prepared identically
Behind the scenes at USC 2016
David Wondrich and Joaquin Simo
Sean Kenyon bringing one last flight to the judges