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!

Announcing week four of Portland Cocktail Week’s Distance Learning classes. Don’t miss this week’s all star cast: Amie Ward, Fanny Chu, Amanda Gunderson, Joey Houghtaling, Mike McDonald, Nickle Morris, Ryan LeClaire, Joel Rivas, Kristen McAdams, and Patricia Ryan-Johnson. Join us tomorrow at 2 PM EDT May 25th-29th LIVE at Facebook.com/PDXCW.

Tune in with us today at 2 PM as our very own Liz Porter catches up with Josh Davis to talk all things Brown & Balanced, from staying positive during quarantine to some of Brown & Balance’s greatest moments, all set to the famed Brown & Balanced playlist!

We are really excited for today’s Portland Cocktail Week’s Distance Learning class, The Garnish Guy Does Garnishes with Josue Romero @the_garnishguy! ⁣ ⁣ Host, Campari Academy’s Italian Portfolio Ambassador, Daniel Warrilow and Josue will explore how to take inspiration from art and your surroundings to create visually appealing cocktails to stimulate your senses.⁣ ⁣ Join us today at 2 PM EDT at Facebook.com/PDXCW - catch the link in our bio.⁣

Mark your calendars, on Monday, May 25th at 2 PM EDT, we are introducing Marvelous Monday: A Most Marvelous Dinner Party Series! Our hosts, Fanny Chu and Amie Ward will share all of our plans including: how to sign up to receive dinner and cocktails, where to the in for education and why we chose to work with Another Round Another Rally. Catch us LIVE at Facebook.com/PDXCW!

Join us tomorrow, May 19th, at 2 PM EDT as Jessi Weinstein offers step by step guidance to addressing and understanding how to operate efficient and effective systems during during the COVID pandemic.

Week three of Portland Cocktail Week’s Distance Learning classes kick off tomorrow at 2 PM EDT with Josh Seaburg on Milk Punch and Fat Washing.⁣ ⁣ “This class is a discussion of how to use milk in removing astringency and phenolic compounds while manipulating flavor and texture! We'll discuss the science and safety behind it, methods from simple to high tech, as well as some out of the box applications. Learn to think outside of the punch and shake up your cocktail program!”⁣ ⁣ Catch Josh’s class along with all of our presenters weekdays at 2 PM on the Portland Cocktail Week Facebook page at www.faceboook.com/pdxcw or by clicking the link in our bio!

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.