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!

Make the most of your downtime with hundreds of hours of @pdxcw and Bar Econo lectures and presentations by the industries top bartenders and spirits professionals. ⁣ ⁣ All you have to do is follow the link in our bio to our Facebook and navigate to the videos section. ⁣ ⁣ Catch @donnyclutterbuck’s classic “When Life Gives You Limes” presentation today on the @pdxcw main Facebook feed! 🍈📝

Did you know?⁣ ⁣ The Portland Cocktail Week Facebook page is home to countless hours of information from speakers over the past several years ranging from “How to Create a Brand” to “When Life Gives You Lemons.”⁣ ⁣ These can all be found under the “Videos” section on the Portland Cocktail Week’s Facebook home page.⁣ ⁣ During the next few weeks we will be sharing some of favorite and most informational videos to help cure those quarantine blues!

Channeling our @Campari Pin Pals spirit in sharing the essence of hospitality across the nation during these extremely difficult times for our industry.⁣ ⁣ It is in our nature to socialize and bring people together and, despite the current situation, we will persevere and come back even stronger! Let’s vow to treat each other with decency and take this time to focus on what it is we do best, take care of others.⁣ ⁣ “In the end, what’s most meaningful is creating positive, uplifting outcomes for human experiences and human relationships. Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It’s that simple, and it’s that hard.”⁣ ⁣ - Danny Meyer, Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

Hey Love! Check out the beautiful Applied Science Major dinner sponsored by our lovely sponsors Maison Ferrand at Portland’s tropical oasis, @heylovepdx.⁣ ⁣ Maison Ferrand supported the Applied Science program as they have supported so many academic endeavors in the past. Their commitment to creating quality spirits to go into their experimental products made them the ideal partner in offering this program.

With so many amazing presenters and informative classes we can’t even begin to pick favorites but we want to hear your feedback and learn some of your most important take-aways from the @pdxcw Majors and Minors!

We love the concept of @hennessy Bartender’s New Year so much!⁣ ⁣ Often our lives as bartenders and hospitality professionals are so focused on hospitality and the happiness of others that we are often overlooked and aren’t able to enjoy most of life’s most celebrated moments.⁣ ⁣ Luckily the fine folks at Hennessy choose @pdxcw to ring in the New Year (in November) in style. Scroll to enjoy some of our favorite highlights and check out our story for a few more gems!

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.