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!

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!

“We don’t sell the lighting that we keep at the right levels based on the time of day and we don’t sell the music that we keep at the right tempo and volume based on the amount of people in the room. ⁣ ⁣ We also don’t sell the books, bitters and barware that line our retail shelves.⁣ ⁣ We certainly don’t sell the well thought-out and simply but beautifully presented cocktails and mixed drinks that we serve night after night.⁣ ⁣ What we do sell is hospitality. All the aforementioned comes included in the price. And I want it to be a bargain that guests are happy and excited to pay us for again and again. It seems to work to everyone’s advantage.”⁣ ⁣ - Sother Teague, @creativedrunk of NYC’s @amoryamargo⁣

Not only is @pdxcw chalk full of classes, seminars and insightful lectures but through our sponsored mash-ups attendees can experience Portland’s vibrant, bustling bar scene, like this shot from the @elmayortequila & @brokenshaker pop-up at @heylovepdx!

With @pdxcw under your belt, are you ready for another experience of a lifetime? Applications are now open for Lush Life’s @camp_runamok, a week long, educational immersive experience into Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail! ⁣ ⁣ If you are a bartender and are interested, all you have to do to apply is visit the @camp_runamok Facebook page - link is in the bio of the Camp Runamok Instagram - and click the link in the most recent post. ⁣ ⁣ If you have any questions or issues with the application process please feel free to shoot us a message. Thank you for your consideration and we hope to see you there!

Happy New Years from the @PDXCW family! ❤️🎉🎈

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.