What is Portland Cocktail Week?

Portland Cocktail Week is where bartenders network, learn and take big strides toward the next step in their careers. Now in its eleventh year, Portland Cocktail Week has evolved into an entirely business oriented program offering classes in six areas of expertise:

- Anti-Waste
- Applied Sciences
- Bartending & Hospitality
- Bar Ownership
- Bar Management
- Consulting

To ensure Portland Cocktail Week offers the highest level and most diverse bar business class offerings, we invite experts of each of our six Majors to curate an informative, engaging and valuable classes that will best guide our students to the next phase of their careers.

Classes, events and activities at Portland Cocktail Week are always free of charge for working bartenders. Our program is entirely subsidized and supported by beverage, spirits and bar adjacent companies who are invested in the future of our industry and the people who continue to push it forward.

Portland Cocktail Week will be back November 8-13, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. We’d love to see you there.

Join us in Portland:

Sign up for a Bartender Pass

Open to working bartenders, the PDXCW Bartender Pass gets you access to all events and classes on a first-come, first-served basis.

It’s absolutely free, and doesn’t require a week-long commitment like the student program – you just need to be a working bartender who’s not currently representing a brand.

Buy an Industry Pass

If you work for a spirits brand,you can still attend Portland Cocktail Week with an Industry pass.

This pass will get you access to all of our events and classes on a first-come, first-served basis, and you’ll be supporting our mission of bartender education.

Apply to attend as a Student

Those accepted as a student at Portland Cocktail Week are guaranteed admittance into all assigned classes and events. Additionally, you will be invited to a dinner with your Major Class peers, along with a field trip. Some students will also be awarded scholarships, which earn you a room at our host hotel for the week.

Volunteer at PDXCW

Not a bartender?
Don’t work for a spirits brand?

You can still participate: Volunteer a bit of your time during the week with PDXCW and get a pass to access all of the activities.

Sign up for a Bartender Pass

Open to working bartenders, the PDXCW Bartender Pass gets you access to all events and classes on a first-come, first-served basis.

It’s absolutely free, and doesn’t require a week-long commitment like the student program – you just need to be a working bartender who’s not currently representing a brand.

Buy an Industry Pass

If you work for a spirits brand,you can still attend Portland Cocktail Week with an Industry pass.

This pass will get you access to all of our events and classes on a first-come, first-served basis, and you’ll be supporting our mission of bartender education.

Apply to attend as a Student

2019 Student Applications are currently closed, but Bartender Passes are still available!

Career Counseling is a series of one-on-one sessions between students and industry professionals, including the Professors and Deans of their Major. Sponsored by Redemption Rye & Hosted by the HR Department, this popular series returned to PDXCW with 98 sessions across our three class days!

Flashback Friday to @espolontequila Cocktail Fights‘ Nationals at @pdxcw last November. Eleven teams battled to the brutal end to see who would take home the championship belt!

Highlights from the Legends of Cognac competition hosted by @hardycognacofficial at Portland’s @normandiepdx. We had an absolute blast hosting 6 very talented bartenders from across the nation and are extremely proud of @lpdrinksdc for her victory. 🥇🥃❤️

Anything better than a Throwback Thursday of @PDXCW lunches featuring Chambord, the black raspberry liquor crafted with the finest ingredients in the Loire Valley? Well, maybe a few photos of adorable Portland pups as well!

The exhibit hall, where the magic happens and all of our amazing sponsors showcase their spirits and goods during @pdxcw!

@pdxcw students venture to @clearcreekdistillery to learn about what makes them so special and how they have sourced bountiful fruit from the Northwest Region to rival the finest European Spirits for the last three decades!

Our 2019 Sponsors

Portland Cocktail Week is so grateful to our sponsors who make this event possible and allow us to continue to offer all classes and events free of charge to our working bartender guests.