Jeffrey Morgenthaler, Chief Judge — Inside the Judging Room

What happens after the bottles arrive and the doors close? Jeffrey Morgenthaler, Chief Judge of the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, joins Toby Blue and Jason Rabinowitz for a behind-the-scenes look at the art, discipline, and responsibility of judging spirits blind. An award-winning bartender and author of The Bar Book and Drinking Distilled, Jeffrey brings decades of experience behind the bar to one of the world’s most respected spirits competitions. This episode is the first in a series featuring the judges who help determine what earns the industry’s highest honors.