World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship

The World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship (WCIGS) is the world championship for drinks that combine coffee and alcohol. It is one of the seven World Coffee Championships run by the Specialty Coffee Association, and the only one of the seven where the skill being judged is mixology — the organisers’ own page describes it as showcasing “the barista/barkeeper’s mixology skills.”¹

That makes it the odd one out in an obvious way. The World Barista Championship tests espresso, the World Brewers Cup tests hand-brewed filter, the World Latte Art Championship tests a picture in the foam. This one tests whether you can build a cocktail — and then asks you to nail a hundred-year-old classic, the Irish coffee, in front of judges who have all had a bad one.

The route in is the same as every other title on the circuit: win your national Coffee in Good Spirits championship, and that seat is your place on the world stage.

How it works

There is a preliminary round and a final round, and the preliminary round runs in two different places.¹

The Spirit Bar. Competitors build two coffee-and-alcohol drinks using a randomly selected type of alcohol and/or ingredients.¹ This is the part that has no analogue anywhere else in the seven championships: you cannot rehearse it, because you do not know what you will be handed. Every other world title rewards months of preparation on a routine the competitor chose. This one rewards improvisation at a bar.

The main stage. Competitors then produce four drinks — two identical hot or warm coffee-and-alcohol beverages, and two identical cold ones.¹ Identical means identical; as in latte art, making the same drink twice is part of the test.

The final. The top six advance and produce two Irish Coffees and two coffee-and-alcohol designer drinks of their own invention.¹ The highest score in the final is World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion.¹

The Irish coffee is the fixed point of the whole competition — hot coffee, Irish whiskey, sugar, and a float of cream that has to sit on top rather than sink through. There is no room to hide behind novelty in it, which is exactly why it is compulsory.

To verify

The scoresheet. No source consulted publishes the scoring weights, the time allowances, or the tie-break procedure for either round. Total finalist scores are published for recent years (below) but the rubric that produces them is not, and the organisers’ own page describes the shape of the competition without giving a single number.¹ Do not quote a time limit or a category weighting for this championship from here.

Recent champions

	Year	Champion	Represents	Affiliation	Host city
1	2026	Andy Philein	not stated by the organisers	—	Brussels, 25–27 Jun
2	2025	Georgius Audrey Teja (“Odi”)	Indonesia	Omakafé	Geneva, 26 Jun
3	2024	Seung Chan Wi	South Korea	EDIYA COFFEE	Copenhagen, 27 Jun

2026 — Brussels. The championship was staged at World of Coffee Brussels, 25–27 June 2026,¹ and the organisers announced Andy Philein as champion on 28 June 2026.² It shared the Brussels weekend with the World Brewers Cup and the World Coffee Roasting Championship — three of the seven finals in one show.

To verify

Andy Philein’s country and affiliation. The organisers’ news feed names him as 2026 champion but states no country, and the championship page names no champion at all.¹² The name reads as French or Belgian; that is a guess, not a source. The World Coffee Championships note flags the identical gap for the 2026 roasting champion. No 2026 final ranking, scores or runners-up were reachable — the organisers route 2026 results to a PDF and everything older to a UC Davis digital collection rather than a browsable table,³ and the results aggregator that covers 2024 and 2025 has no 2026 page (HTTP 404). Settle it against the PDF before attaching a flag to the name.

2025 — Geneva. Georgius Audrey Teja of Indonesia, competing for Omakafé, won on 26 June 2025 in Geneva with 378 points.⁴⁵ The published final ranking:⁴

1. Georgius Audrey Teja (Omakafé) — Indonesia — 378
2. Danny Wilson (ONA Coffee) — Australia — 339
3. Van Lin (GABEE.) — Taiwan — 312
4. Christos Klouvatos (Taf) — Greece — 285.5
5. Vladyslav Demonenko (Kolo coffee klcf) — Germany — 256.5
6. Gary Au (Urban Coffee Roaster) — Hong Kong — 249.5

2024 — Copenhagen. Seung Chan Wi of South Korea, competing for EDIYA COFFEE, won on 27 June 2024 at World of Coffee Copenhagen with 377.5 points.⁶⁷⁵ The organisers’ own social account states plainly: “Congratulations to the 2024 World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion, Seung Chan Wi, South Korea,”⁷ and the awards-ceremony video confirms the same result.⁸ The final ranking:⁶

1. Seung Chan Wi (EDIYA COFFEE) — South Korea — 377.5
2. Sandro Roth (IRIX Design) — Switzerland — 342.5
3. Andrea Villa (Bugan Coffee Lab) — Italy — 314.0
4. Yessylia Violin Angkasa (Common Grounds) — Indonesia — 309.5
5. Sin Jay Kao (Just Go Coffee) — Taiwan — 282.0
6. Chloe Lai (Accro Coffee) — Hong Kong — 243.0

To verify

The scores and the placings 2nd through 6th. The champion’s name is confirmed by the organisers themselves for 2024⁷⁸ and is consistent across three sources for 2025.⁴⁵ But every number above, and every name below first place, comes from a single results aggregator — a Canadian national-championship site that compiles world results.⁴⁶ It matches the organisers wherever the two overlap, which is why it is used here, but it is not an official archive. Confirm against the organisers’ ranking PDFs before quoting a score.³

2022 — Milan. Agnieszka Rojewska of Poland won the title in Milan — her second world championship in a completely different discipline, four years after becoming the first woman to win the World Barista Championship. Her final ran a coffee negroni, a bison-grass-vodka sour and coffee mulled wine in the preliminaries, and an original called “Coffee Champagne” — carbonated with dry ice, clarified with milk — alongside the compulsory Irish coffee. That note carries the sourcing.

The earlier history

To verify

Everything before 2022, including the founding date. A single coffee blog carries the origin story and the year-by-year winners list, and no official or independent source consulted confirms any of it.⁵ What it claims:

• Coffee in Good Spirits began in 2005, created by the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE) to widen its competition programme beyond the barista and cup-tasters titles.⁵ The SCAE merged with its American counterpart in 2017 to form today’s Specialty Coffee Association — see World Coffee Events for why pre-2017 and post-2017 sources name different organisers for the same competition.
• 2005–2011: no champions publicly documented; the events are described only as held at “various European locations.”⁵
• 2012 Ákos Orosz (Hungary), Seoul · 2013 Victor Delpierre (France), Nice · 2014 Matthew Perger (Australia), Rimini · 2015 George Koustoumpardis (Greece), Gothenburg · 2016 Michalis Dimitrakopoulos (Greece), Shanghai · 2017 Martin Hudak (Slovakia), Budapest · 2018 and 2019 Dan Fellows (United Kingdom), Belo Horizonte then Berlin · 2020–2021 not held, COVID-19 · 2023 Rastislav “Rasty” Kasar (United Kingdom), Taipei.⁵

Two details in that list are worth chasing rather than repeating: Dan Fellows winning back-to-back would make him the only repeat champion in the competition’s documented history, and the 2014 entry names Matt Perger, a title this wiki’s Matt Perger note currently records as claimed but unverified because its only other support is Perger saying so himself in a video interview. The blog is a second source, but it is a blog — the claim moves from “self-asserted” to “asserted by one aggregating write-up,” not to “confirmed.” The organisers’ ranking PDFs and the UC Davis archive are where all of this gets settled.³

Note also the naming question this wiki keeps hitting: the list above puts 2023 in Taipei and the 2025 third-place finisher under Taiwan, while the organisers currently designate competitors from Taiwan as “Chinese Taipei” in other championships. World Coffee Championships and World Latte Art Championship both flag the same unresolved discrepancy.

To verify

A stale research report. The report behind this note treats the 2026 championship as upcoming and its champion as unknown, listing only the Brussels dates. That was true when it was written and is not true now — the event was held in June 2026 and Andy Philein was announced as champion on 28 June 2026.² The report also gives no 2025 competition date; the aggregator gives 26 June 2025.⁴ Where a schedule round-up and the organisers’ own feed disagree, trust the feed.

No coffees, no cupping scores, no prices

A reader arriving from Best of Panama or Cup of Excellence will go looking for the coffees these competitors used — the farm, the Geisha lot, the cupping score, the auction price. None of that is published for this championship, and none of it should be invented.

The rules ask for quality ingredient selection, so competitors are plainly expected to bring good coffee and good spirits, but nothing requires them to disclose either.¹ No source consulted names a single lot, variety, processing method, altitude, score or price behind any WCIGS routine. A sentence like “the 2025 champion built his Irish coffee on a 92-point washed Geisha” would be fabrication.

This is the same structural point the World Latte Art Championship and World Cup Tasters Championship notes make. The green-coffee auctions judge a lot and publish a price; these championships judge a performance and publish a name. The coffee is an input, not the product being valued.

Why it matters

The championship exists because the barista trade and the bartending trade kept converging and nothing on the competition circuit measured the overlap. Espresso martinis, coffee negronis and cold-brew highballs are now standard on cocktail lists; the cold brew and iced coffee categories that make them possible are among the fastest-moving parts of the café business. WCIGS is the only place where that craft gets a world verdict attached to a name.

And the verdict travels the same way every other title on this circuit does — the premiumisation engine with a person at the front of it. What is different here is the direction it travels: a Coffee in Good Spirits champion is as employable behind a cocktail bar as behind an espresso machine, which is not true of a cup-tasting or latte-art title.

The recent geography says the rest. Across 2024, 2025 and 2026 the finals have been won by South Korea and Indonesia before an unstated third, and the 2025 final six drew from Indonesia, Australia, Taiwan, Greece, Germany and Hong Kong.⁴⁶ Four of the six seats in that final went to Asia-Pacific competitors — the same eastward current running through the whole circuit.

Champion history

	Year	Champion	Country	Company	Score	Host city
1	2025	Georgius Audrey Teja	Indonesia	Omakafé	378	Geneva, Switzerland
2	2024	Seung Chan Wi	South Korea	EDIYA COFFEE	377.5	Copenhagen, Denmark
3	2023	Rastislav “Rasty” Kasar	United Kingdom	Teddy’s Speakeasy	370	Athens, Greece
4	2022	Agnieszka Rojewska	Poland	Sheep and Raven	344.5	Milan, Italy
5	2019	Dan Fellows	United Kingdom	Origin Coffee	355	Berlin, Germany
6	2018	Dan Fellows	United Kingdom	Origin Coffee	306	Belo Horizonte, Brazil
7	2017	Martin Hudak	Slovakia	American Bar at the Savoy Hotel	380	Budapest, Hungary
8	2016	Michalis Dimitrakopoulos	Greece	The Underdog	329	Dublin, Ireland
9	2015	George Koustoumpardis	Greece	The Underdog	351	Gothenburg, Sweden
10	2014	Matthew Perger	Australia	St. Ali and Sensory Lab	363.5	Rimini, Italy
11	2013	Victor Delpierre	France	—	354	Nice, France
12	2012	Akos Orosz	Hungary	—	333.5	Vienna, Austria
13	2011	Philip Leytes	Russia	Coffee Studio	282	Maastricht, Netherlands

Results archive (every edition)

Final-round placings for every World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship edition on record — 13 editions, 2011–2025. Earlier rounds (the full field, 340 rows in total) are kept as data in data/competitions/wcc/wcigs.json.

2025 — Geneva, Switzerland

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Georgius Audrey Teja	Indonesia	Omakafé	378
2	2	Danny Wilson	Australia	ONA Coffee	339
3	3	Van Lin	Taiwan	GABEE.	312
4	4	Christos Klouvatos	Greece	Taf	285.5
5	5	Vladyslav Demonenko	Germany	Kolo coffee klcf	256.5
6	6	Gary Au	Hong Kong	Urban Coffee Roaster	249.5

Earlier rounds: Preliminary (24).

2024 — Copenhagen, Denmark

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Seung Chan Wi	South Korea	EDIYA COFFEE	377.5
2	2	Sandro Roth	Switzerland	IRIX Design	342.5
3	3	Andrea Villa	Italy	Bugan Coffee Lab	314
4	4	Yessylia Violin Angkasa	Indonesia	Common Grounds	309.5
5	5	Sin Jay Kao	Taiwan	Just Go Coffee	282
6	6	Chloe Lai	Hong Kong	Accro Coffee	243

Earlier rounds: Preliminary (23).

2023 — Athens, Greece

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Rastislav “Rasty” Kasar	United Kingdom	Teddy’s Speakeasy	370
2	2	Tanpong	Thailand	Niko Neko/Matcha Thailand	360.5
3	3	Danny Andrade	Australia	Processing Methods Bootcamp & Neli Coffee	357
4	4	Christos Klouvatos	Greece	Taf Coffee	343.5
5	5	Sion Wu	Taiwan	Brown Study	331
6	6	Marco Poidomani	Italy	Marco Poidomani	321

Earlier rounds: Preliminary (19).

2022 — Milan, Italy

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Agnieszka Rojewska	Poland	Sheep and Raven	344.5
2	2	Vladyslav Demonenko	Ukraine	Funt Coffee	340
3	3	Shayla Philipa	Indonesia	Hungry Bird Coffee Roaster	313.5
4	4	Nelson Phu	Canada	Rosso Coffee Roasters	293
5	5	Danny Wilson	Australia	ONA Coffee	265
6	6	Christos Klouvatos	Greece	Taf	230

Earlier rounds: Preliminary (22).

2019 — Berlin, Germany

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Dan Fellows	United Kingdom	Origin Coffee	355
2	2	Tim Lam Wing Fat	Hong Kong	Cupping Room Coffee Roasters	339.5
3	3	Agnieszka Rojewska	Poland	Independent	318
4	4	Manos Mamakis	Greece	The Underdog Roasters	277
5	5	Nicole Battefeld	Germany	Röststätte Berlin	274
6	6	Arnon Thitiprasert	Thailand	Ristr8to	256.5

Earlier rounds: Preliminary (25).

2018 — Belo Horizonte, Brazil

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Dan Fellows	United Kingdom	Origin Coffee	306
2	2	Manos Mamakis	Greece	The Underdog Roasters	286
3	3	Danny Wilson	Australia	Ona Coffee	285
4	4	Artem Bakurov	Ukraine	ONE LOVE coffee	276.5
5	5	Min-Seo Kang	South Korea	Mariscoffee	243
6	6	Dan Bacaintan	Italy	Independent	238.5

Earlier rounds: Preliminary (22).

2017 — Budapest, Hungary

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Martin Hudak	Slovakia	American Bar at the Savoy Hotel	380
2	2	Manos Mamakis	Greece	The Underdog	320
3	3	Mateusz Szuchnik	Poland	El Koktel / Kofi Brand	297
4	4	Natasha Shariff	Singapore	Bettr Barista Coffee Academy	272
5	5	Natalia Obruch	Russia	Coffee Owl Roasters	251
6	6	Yukari Suzuki	Japan	UNLIMITED COFFEE BAR	211.5

Earlier rounds: Preliminary (21).

2016 — Dublin, Ireland

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Michalis Dimitrakopoulos	Greece	The Underdog	329
2	2	Martin Hudak	Slovakia	American Bar at The Savoy Hotel Londo	319
3	3	Berg Wu	Taiwan	Simple Kaffa	294
4	4	Shae Macnamara	Australia	Grinders Coffee	272.5
5	5	Hu Ying	China	Outman Coffee	262.5
6	6	David Jameson	United Kingdom	Union Hand Roasted Coffee	221.5

Earlier rounds: Preliminary (16).

2015 — Gothenburg, Sweden

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	George Koustoumpardis	Greece	The Underdog	351
2	2	Ondrej Hurtik	Czech Republic	Doubleshot Roastery	278
3	3	Paul Ungureanu	Romania	Paul Ungureanu Consulting	269
4	4	Eduardo Affonso Scorsin	Brazil	Lucca Cafés Especiais	267.5
5	5	Sang Moo Hyun	South Korea	Maris Coffee	253.5
6	6	Sang Ho Park	United Kingdom	Square Mile Coffee	243.5

Earlier rounds: Round One (14).

2014 — Rimini, Italy

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Matthew Perger	Australia	St. Ali and Sensory Lab	363.5
2	2	Martin Hudak	Slovakia	Dublin Café	352.5
3	3	George Koustoumpardis	Greece	Tailor Made Micro Roastery & Cocktail Bar	347.5
4	4	Madeleine Solheim Johnsen	Norway	Solberg & Hansen	315.5
5	5	Young Jin Kim	South Korea	Core	304
6	6	Francesco Corona	Italy	Corona Francesco e Giraudo Fabrizio	264.5

Earlier rounds: Round One (15).

2013 — Nice, France

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Victor Delpierre	France	—	354
2	2	Marcin Wójciak	Poland	—	342.5
3	3	Gordon Howell	United Kingdom	—	339
4	4	Dimitrios Konstantopoulos	Greece	—	329.5
5	5	Gérard Meylaers	Belgium	—	317.5
6	6	Martin Hudák	Slovakia	—	312

Earlier rounds: Round One (21).

2012 — Vienna, Austria

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Akos Orosz	Hungary	—	333.5
2	2	Stavros Lamprinidis	Greece	—	285.5
3	3	Ronny Billemon	Belgium	—	282
4	4	Dan Fellows	United Kingdom	—	267.5
5	5	Ubirajara Gomes	Brazil	—	260.5
6	6	Francesco Corona	Italy	—	249.5

Earlier rounds: Round One (17).

2011 — Maastricht, Netherlands

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Philip Leytes	Russia	Coffee Studio	282
2	2	Meylaers Gérard	Belgium	Viva Sara	275.5
3	3	Rune Andersen	Norway	Crema AS	249
4	4	Thomas Schweiger	Germany	green and bean	223.5
5	5	Ziad Abi Nakhoul	Ireland	Ssp Dublin Airport	245
6	6	Floriana Vlaicu	Romania	Independent	—

Earlier rounds: Preliminary (23).

Source conflicts

To verify

The hand-written table on this page and the imported archive disagree on 3 field(s). Neither is assumed correct — check them against the official World Coffee Events record and fix whichever is wrong at its source.

	Year	Field	This page says	The archive says
1	2024	host city	EDIYA COFFEE	Copenhagen, Denmark
2	2025	host city	Omakafé	Geneva, Switzerland
3	2025	name	Georgius Audrey Teja (“Odi”)	Georgius Audrey Teja

Related

• World Coffee Championships — the seven-title circuit this one belongs to
• World Barista Championship · World Brewers Cup · World Latte Art Championship · World Cup Tasters Championship — the siblings, and how differently each is judged
• World Coffee Events · Specialty Coffee Association — who runs it, before and after the 2017 merger
• Agnieszka Rojewska — 2022 champion, and the only WCIGS winner with a full note here
• Matt Perger — the 2014 title attributed to him, still unconfirmed
• ONA Coffee — the Australian roastery behind the 2025 runner-up
• Barista · Latte art — the craft the competitors come from
• Cold brew coffee · Iced coffee — the cold-coffee categories the cocktail side leans on
• Coffee trade shows — the World of Coffee shows these finals are staged inside
• Best of Panama · Cup of Excellence — the green-coffee equivalents, judged on lots rather than people
• Premiumisation · Coffee scoring — what a title does to price, and how judging scales work

Official links

• Official site — World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship (World Coffee Championships)
• Official — WCIGS past rankings
• Official — World Coffee Championships news
• Official site — Specialty Coffee Association

Footnotes

1. World Coffee Championships — World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship (official) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

2. World Coffee Championships — Latest news (official) ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. World Coffee Championships — WCIGS past rankings (official) ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship 2025 — Results & Rankings ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

5. Roastopedia — History of the World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

6. World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship 2024 — Results & Rankings ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

7. World Coffee Championships on Instagram — 2024 WCIGS results ↩ ↩² ↩³

8. 2024 World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship — Awards Ceremony (video) ↩ ↩²