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🍹 Home of the Battle of the Babes Cocktail Competition

How do we explain this feeling to a man?Maybe we don’t.Maybe this feeling belongs to the women who understand exactly wh...
09/10/2026

How do we explain this feeling to a man?

Maybe we don’t.

Maybe this feeling belongs to the women who understand exactly what it means to walk into a room and realize someone intentionally made space for you.

To be seen.
To be celebrated.
To be challenged.
To be supported.
To watch another woman win and know her success doesn’t take anything away from yours.

For us, women supporting women has never been a slogan.

It means creating opportunities for women to compete, lead, build their resumes, strengthen their craft, expand their networks, earn recognition and evolve in their careers.

Women make up a significant part of the service and hospitality workforce, and we believe the women doing the work deserve opportunities to move forward in the industry, not simply remain the labor that keeps it moving.

That is why we prioritize women.
That is why we create rooms specifically for women.
That is why six years later, Battle of the Babes still matters to us.

And being pro-woman has never meant being anti-man.

It means recognizing where intentional support is needed and choosing to provide it.

There is something incredibly powerful about watching a woman realize that an entire room is rooting for her.

How do we explain that feeling? Maybe you just need to be there. 🥹

Year 6. September 27. 🔗 in bio for tickets

Calling all local businesses & brands 👀The 6th Annual Battle of the Babes Cocktail Competition is bringing 175+ guests t...
09/07/2026

Calling all local businesses & brands 👀

The 6th Annual Battle of the Babes Cocktail Competition is bringing 175+ guests together for an unforgettable celebration of women, cocktails, culture and community.

There are two ways to put your brand in the room:

✨ Claim our final vendor table and connect with guests in person
🎁 Place your product, offer or promotional item inside our VIP swag bags

If your brand is ready for more visibility, new customers and meaningful community connections, this is your opportunity.

📍 Merchant + Trade
📅 September 27
💌 DM us for more details!

One table remains. Swag bag placements are limited.

09/03/2026

Six years ago, we had an idea.

What we didn’t know was how many women would trust us with their time. Their resources. Their energy. Their talent. Their intellectual property. Their names. Their home bars. Their reputations.

We didn’t know how many women would say yes to building something with us before there was six years of history to point to.

And we certainly didn’t know what that trust would become.

Six years later, the Battle of the Babes Cocktail Competition is doing exactly what we hoped this industry could do when women are given the resources, visibility, relationships, and room to thrive.

We are accelerating careers.

We are creating new opportunities.

We are connecting women to brands, bars, media, mentorship, and each other.

We are pouring resources back into the hospitality industry and into the community that continues to pour into us.

And we are helping build the cultural cocktail community that Charlotte deserves.

The cocktails have always been part of it.

But this was never just about cocktails.

It was about what could happen when women in hospitality were given a platform worthy of what they bring to the table.

Six years later, we know the answer.

And we’re still building. 🥂

Year 6. Battle of the Babes Cocktail Competition.
September 27. 🎟️ Available in our bio

Less than 30 days until Year 6 takeover at Merchant & Trade 🥂 Six years of raising the standard, building the room, cham...
09/01/2026

Less than 30 days until Year 6 takeover at Merchant & Trade 🥂

Six years of raising the standard, building the room, championing women behind the bar, and proving that Battle of the Babes is bigger than a competition. It’s a platform. A pipeline.

A celebration of talent, hospitality, culture, and the people shaping what’s next.

🥂 6th Annual Battle of the Babes Cocktail Competition
📍 Merchant + Trade | Uptown Charlotte
📅 September 27
🎟️ Tickets available 🔗 in bio.

The countdown is officially on.

Charlotte’s most anticipated evening celebrating Black women returns for one final chapter. 🖤 BLK Girl BLK Dress: Chapte...
08/27/2026

Charlotte’s most anticipated evening celebrating Black women returns for one final chapter. 🖤

BLK Girl BLK Dress: Chapter III — The Finale is more than a dinner party. It is the closing chapter of a tradition built around elegance, joy, intentional connection, and the belief that Black women deserve beautiful things.

To be part of this experience three years running has meant watching an idea become a tradition and a tradition become a legacy. We’ve had the privilege of pouring into a space intentionally created for Black women to feel celebrated, connected, and cared for.

As we prepare for the final chapter, we’re proud to have been part of the story from year to year and even prouder to raise one final glass to what BLK in Bloom | Connecting Black Women in CLT has built. 🖤

A single evening. A lasting legacy. And one final toast. Beat us there🥂

08/26/2026

The Battle of the Babes was never created just to see who could make the best cocktail.

It was created because talent deserves a room big enough to be seen.

For six years, we’ve built a platform where mixologists can step outside of their regular shift and show the city what they’re actually capable of creativity, technique, storytelling, hospitality and presence.

And we intentionally built the competition around the people behind the bar.

The home bars receive the recognition.
The brands get to discover new talent.
The industry gets stronger connections.
But the mixologists get something even more important: visibility, opportunity and a stage.

That’s why the competition continues to evolve.

It isn’t about making one great drink.

It’s about creating the kind of room where one great drink can lead to a brand relationship, a new opportunity, a bigger platform, or the next chapter of someone’s career.

Year 6 is the manifestation of the work we’ve been doing all along.

This is bigger than cocktails.

It’s a career accelerator disguised as one hell of a party. 🥂

6th Annual Battle of the Babes Cocktail Competition
📅 September 27 | Charlotte, NC

Experience the evolution. Tickets available via the link in bio.

Year 6 is the manifestation of everything we’ve been building.Six years of raising the bar, challenging the standard, an...
08/21/2026

Year 6 is the manifestation of everything we’ve been building.

Six years of raising the bar, challenging the standard, and creating a room unlike anything else in Charlotte hospitality.

This isn’t just another cocktail competition. It’s the one room where the standard isn’t simply met…it’s redefined.

Experience the evolution.

The 6th Annual Battle of the Babes Cocktail Competition.
Tickets available via the link in bio.

08/16/2026

So…what exactly is a cocktail competition? 🍸

It’s not a room full of bartenders making random drinks and hoping someone likes theirs.

It’s a showcase of craft, creativity, technique, storytelling and hospitality.

Each mixologist is given the opportunity to create an original cocktail and present an experience that represents their point of view behind the bar.

The judges are looking beyond whether the cocktail simply “tastes good.”

They’re considering the balance.
The technique.
The presentation.
The creativity.
The story.
And the ex*****on.

But Battle of the Babes takes it one step further.

For us, the competition is the vehicle.

The real purpose is visibility and opportunity.

For six years, Battle of the Babes has created a platform for women in hospitality to showcase their talent, represent their bars, build relationships with brands and industry leaders, and put their work in front of an audience that may have never discovered them otherwise.

So yes, you’re coming to taste some incredible cocktails.

But you’re also watching talent get seen.

🥂 The 6th Annual Battle of the Babes Cocktail Competition
September 27 at Merchant + Trade. Tickets available in our bio!

Come experience what a cocktail competition is supposed to feel like.

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