2025 First Place Winner –

San Antonio 

The Wild Bond – Karina Caro, Amelia Social Lounge

Ingredients:

1.5 oz WildBark West TX Dry Gin

0.25 oz Chareau Aloe Liqueur

0.75 oz clarified lime juice

0.75 oz simple syrup

Top with Top Chico and Mezcal cucumber foam

Recipe:

Shake and strain the WildBark Gin, Chareau, and clarified lime juice with ice, strain into a Collins glass, and top with Topo Chico.

Ice with fresh crushed ice.

Top with Mezcal foam.

Garnish with a dehydrated lime wheel and banana leaf wrap in glass.

2025 Second Place Winner –

San Antonio 

Tom Kha-Liente – Des Santana, Amelia Social Lounge

Ingredients:

1.5 oz WildJune Western Style Gin – to be served up or with broth – 

Broth (egg white clarified) – 2 Tb lemongrass turmeric puree

2 small chipotle peppers in adobo sauce

2 Tb soy sauce

3 cups vegetable stock

1 small tomato, diced

Cilantro salt

Recipe:

Chill WildJune by stirring in ice and straining – 

Serve alongside portion of broth, 3 oz – to taste

2025 Third Place Winner –

San Antonio 

Cowboy Take Me Away –

Rorie Perez, Best Quality Daughter

Ingredients:

1 oz WildBark West TX Dry Gin 

1 oz Allspice infused WildBark West TX Dry Gin 

.75 oz fresh lime juice

.75 oz roasted coconut juice

.75 oz pineapple juice

1 pipette Bennett Bermuda Bitters

1 oz Tom Yum brown sugar syrup

Recipe:

Add all of the ingredients to an ice-filled shaker tin,

shake until fully chilled, around 15 seconds.

Strain into a rocks glass and top up with fresh ice,

garnish with edible flower. 

2025 First Place Winner –

Austin 

Spring Awakening –

Erica Orona, ATX Cocina

Ingredients:

1.5 oz WildBark West TX Dry Gin 

.75 oz Lavender-Cardaomom-Ginger simple syrup 

.75 oz fresh lime juice

.5 oz fresh orange juice

.5 oz Elferflower liqueur 

1 egg white

Recipe:

Add all of the ingredients to a shaker tin and dry shake for 15 seconds to incorporate egg white.  ,

Add ice and shake until fully chilled, around 15 seconds.

Strain into a coupe glass and garnish 1/3 of the drink with dusting of nutmeg and 1 lavender sprig. 

2025 Second Place Winner –

Austin

Heatwave Horseapple –

Hannah Locke, Olamaie

Ingredients:

1.25 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

.25 oz Alpeggio Hay Liqueur

.5 oz Meunier Genepy Altitude

.5 oz Apple “honey” (Apple trimming, sugar, water reduction)

.75 oz lemon juice

.75 oz Fever Tree Lemon Tonic

Recipe:

Add all of the ingredients except tonic to an ice-filled shaker tin, shake until fully chilled, around 15 seconds.

Strain into a Collins glass with a Collins cube or fresh ice, and top up with Fever Tree Lemon Tonic.

Garnish with horseneck orange peel and colorful straw..

2025 Co-Third Place Winner –

Austin

The Grey Lady –

MaKensey Sanders, Vigilante Gastropub and Games

Ingredients:

1.5 oz WildJune Western Style Gin 

.75 oz Italicus Rosolio di Bergamotto

1 oz Earl Grey turbinado simple syrup

.5 oz lemon juice

5 drops Earl Grey bitters

2 orange wheels

2 mint bouquets

Recipe:

Muddle an orange wheelk and 5 mint leaves in a tin.

Add all ingredients and ice to tin, shake,

and double strain ove ice in a rocks glass.

Garnish with and orange wheel and a mint bouquet.  

2025 Co-Third Place Winner –

Austin 

Healthy-ish –

Katie Sacks, Marlow Bar

Ingredients:

1.5 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

1.5 oz Carrot/Ginger/Turmeric Juice

.75 oz fresh lemon juice

.5 oz Coriander syrup

.5 oz Strega

2 dashes Saline Solution

1 egg white

Garnish – Carrot top / mint-salt dust

Recipe:

Dry shake all of the ingredients in a shaker tin to get the egg white incorporated. Then shake with ice, 15 seconds to get to a good chill. Double strain into a rocks glass without ice. Garnish with a light dusting of carrot-top & mint salt dust.

2025 First Place Winner –

Dallas

The Wild Geisha –

Madison Toholsky, Town Hearth

Ingredients:

2 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

1 oz Togarashi infused simple syrup

.5 oz lychee juice

.5 oz yuzu juice

Recipe:

Shake vigorously with ice in a shaker tin, 15 seconds. Double strain into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish with citrus peel.

2025 Second Place Winner –

Dallas

Rachel’s WildBark Sour –

Rachel Saguid, The Operators Club

Ingredients:

1.5 oz WildBark West Texas Gin

.75 oz Passion Fruit Puree

.5 oz simple syrup

.5 oz fresh squeezed lime juice

1 egg white

Recipe:

Dry shake all of the ingredients in a shaker tin to get the egg white incorporated. Fill shaker 3/4 full with ice and shake 15 seconds to get to a good chill. Double strain into a chilled Martini glass. Add 4 dashes of bitters in a crescent moon line. Garnish with Maraschino cherry and lemon peel skewer.

2025 Co-Third Place Winner –

Dallas

Everything But the Kitchen Sink –

Chandler Tomayko, The Algiers Club

Ingredients:

1 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

1 oz WildBark West Texas Dry Gin

1.5 oz condensed milk

1 2-hour soy sauce cured egg yolk

1.5 oz 2 hats coffee espresso brewed with coriander seed

2 drops white peppercorn infused chocolate bitters

3 oz Perrier sparkling mineral water

Recipe:

Shake all of the ingredients except the Perrier in a shaker tin 2/3 full of ice for 15 seconds. . Add the mineral water. Double strain into cocktail into a glass filled with shaved or pebble ice. Garnish with seasoned rice paper.

2025 Co-Third Place Winner –

Dallas

First Date –

Kassandra “Kass” Ayala, Nickel City, Fort Worth

Ingredients:

1 oz WildBark West Texas Dry Gin

1 oz cacao nib infused Campari (25g:500ml)

1 oz raspberry infused Dolin Rouge Vermouth (100g:375ml)

1 dash of saline solution (50g:200ml)

1 dash of Angostura Cocoa Bitters

2 dashes Saline Solution

1 egg white

Garnish – Carrot top / mint-salt dust

Recipe:

Stir in mixing glass for 10 seconds. Strain into rocks glass with fresh ice, express orange peel, garnish with orange twist.

2025 Co-Third Place Winner –

Dallas

After the Rain Falls –

Jacqueline Blanco, Local Yocal, McKinney

Ingredients:

2 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

2 oz Club Soda

1 oz fresh lime juice

.75 oz ginger syrup

.5 oz Chareau Aloe liqueur

1 egg white

5 mint leaves

Recipe:

Dry shake all of the ingredients except club soda in a shaker tin to get the egg white incorporated. Then shake with ice, 15 dseconds to get to a good chill. Double strain into an ice-filled highball glass, and top with club soda. Garnish with mint leaves.

2024 First Place Winner – 

Oaxacan Gin Fizz – Rochelle Piña (Fairmont Austin)

Ingredients:

1.5 oz WildBark West TX Dry Gin

0.25 oz Chareau Aloe Liqueur

0.75 oz clarified lime juice

0.75 oz simple syrup

Top with Top Chico and Mezcal cucumber foam

Recipe:

Shake and strain the WildBark Gin, Chareau, and clarified lime juice with ice, strain into a Collins glass, and top with Topo Chico.

Ice with fresh crushed ice.

Top with Mezcal foam.

Garnish with a dehydrated lime wheel and banana leaf wrap in glass.

2024 Second Place Winner – 

Wild Honey – Bridget Kimbell (Uptown Sports Club)

Ingredients:

0.75 oz WildBark West TX Dry Gin

0.75 oz strawberry/yaupon honey syrup

0.75 oz lemon juice

0.75 oz Ramazzotti Aperitivo Rosato

Recipe

Add all ingredients to shaker, fill completely with ice and shake vigorously.

Double strain into coupe glass.

2024 Third Place Winner – 

(Church of the) Poison Mind – Eva Suter (L’Oca d’Oro)

Ingredients:

1.5 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

0.5 oz Limoncello

0.5 oz Amaro Ramazzotti

Recipe

Build in tin, fill completely with ice and shake vigorously.

Double strain into rocks glass. Fill with ice. Garnish with toasted star anise.

2024 Third Place Winner – 

Rain Lily – Candice Dublin (Small Victory)

Ingredients:

1 egg white

0.75 oz fresh lemon juice

0.5 oz simple syrup

0.5 oz elderflower liqueur

0.5 oz Campari

1.0 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

Top with sparkling water

Recipe

Add all ingredients except sparkling water to shaking tin. Shake without ice for a few seconds (dry shake), then add ice and shake again. Strain into a fizz glass and top with sparkling water.