Pipeline has another pair of tickets to give away for Cocktail Camp PDX on Sunday, April 10. Tickets include four drink tickets. To win tickets, comment on this post why you would like to attend. Winner will be drawn & emailed Friday, April 1.
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From our sponsors at Cocktail Camp:
Cocktail Camp 2011
Sunday, April 10
10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
$40 before April 1 | $50 after April 1
www.cocktailcamp.net
The Gerding Theater @ The Armory
128 NW 11th Avenue
We all love a good cocktail, but how often do you get the chance to really explore the wide world of spirits? To learn about the making of the latest hand crafted whiskeys, to taste locally distilled spirits, or to learn how to throw a killer cocktail party at home? We’re here to help with Cocktail Camp PDX.
Cocktail Camp is a day long event that’s part social gathering and part learning experience. You can listen to talks and panel discussions from experts on distilling and mixology, all while enjoying some fine drinks and chatting with other cocktail enthusiasts. We endeavor to bring you a laid-back, fun approach to the craft of making cocktails while our bartenders serve you cocktails and punches.
Tickets include four drink tickets good for cocktails served at social hours throughout the day. Enjoy a drink with us and explore the world of cocktails!
Here’s a little more about what you can expect from your day:
The Art of Tasting Beer and Spirits
Set the stage (and your palate) for the day by learning how to really taste your spirits and beer. Learn what makes spirits different and how to pick out their defining characteristics. Lee Medoff Bull Run Distillery, Nathan Gerdes (Thatch Tiki Bar, Northwest Distillery, and Alex Ganum Upright Brewing will lead the discussion.
Beer cocktails: Why Have One When You Can Have Both?
Jacob Grier Metrovino and Ezra Johnson-Greenough Upright Brewing will teach you how to craft fantastic cocktails using the unlikeliest of ingredients.
The New American Whiskey
The other whiskeys that have been taking bars by storm and redefining what “American whiskey” means. Learn more from Lance Winters St. George Spirits, Lee Medoff Bull Run Distillery, and Sebastian Degans Stone Barn Brandy Works about this growing movement.
Yes, You Can Entertain!
Learn how to plan your own amazing cocktail parties with the help of David Shenaut Beaker and Flask, Irving Street Kitchen and Jacqueline Patterson Lillet.
DIY Sodas, Syrups, and Bitters
Expert instruction on doing it yourself from San Francisco’s Jennifer Colliau Small Hand Foods, Slanted Door and Columbine Quillen.
In addition, there will be three cocktail social hours throughout the day with complimentary cocktails and punches by Lillet, Northwest Distillery, and House Spirits Distillery.
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This sounds like so much fun. I love learning about alcohol as I drink it, my memory maybe isn’t as good, but it makes you feel like a connoisseur instead of a lush. Also makes for good conversation starters with cute guys at bars.
It has to be said, I am not a good bartender. I would love to go to this event to learn how to make cocktails my guests will enjoy and get tips on how to make my parties better. AND I am particularly a fan of the cocktails at Beaker and Flask so that is quite the bonus.
Thanks!
My restaurant just started carrying liquor, this would really help me step up my mixing game. Looks really fun.
“DIY Sodas, Syrups, and Bitters” ’nuff said. If I win me and the Mrs. will be front and center. Thanks!
Yes please!
I’m so interested in the art of cocktail-making that I own six different cocktail recipe/reference books and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see these pros at work. And of course sample the “art.” :)
This is my kind of camp!
To explore the wide world of spirits?! To learn about the making of the latest hand crafted whiskeys, and to taste locally distilled spirits. I’m in!
I love alcohol and sounds like fun!
Ooh, pick me please! I need to learn how to add some spice to my drink mixing skills. This event sounds delightful.
This sounds like an awesome event. The Gerding theater is my favorite place in Portland.
I never go to go to real camp…this sounds much better though!
I love classic cocktails!
Sounds awesome
I would love to learn how to make cocktails for parties that I host!
What a great way to mix up your Sunday :)
Sounds great – mixology is a new and exciting area of cooking and combining ingredients that I know too little about. I’d especially love to learn about pairing cocktails and food, and using unexpected ingredients in innovative combinations.
Pick me pick me pick me pleeeze!
I’ve moved to a great spot and need to throw a fancy cocktail house warming. TEACH ME!
As I said the last time, I need to learn more about spirits and this would be a good time. My wife and I go to what we call adult camp, which is really volunteering to help decorate one of the floats for the Pasadena Rose Parade. This would truly be an adult camp.
4 Reasons why I would love to win…
1. I love the art of the cocktail
2. I like to drink
3. I didn’t win the first drawing for tix
4. I missed it last year
I’ve spent over 100000 dollars on drinkin n partying in the last year! I need this camp so I can start makin my own cocktails n invitin friends over lol
I always did want to lean how to tend bar.
Sounds like fun!
Wow this looks amazing! I would definitely pass on the knowledge if I was able to attend.
I love that this starts at 10:30am. That way I can be buzzed by noon! Cocktails are great! (my fingers and toes are crossed.)
I love educational social events. Please help me throw a better cocktail party!! Thanks!
Cocktails (especially BEER cocktails!) are where it’s at! Would love to attend, but being mostly-unemployed makes the cost a little prohibitive…
I am interested in the beer coctails, for sure. I have always been leary to try any, even though i LOVE craft beer. This would be a great opportunity to try some without shelling out the big bucks. Pick me, PDX Pipeline!
I’d love to win these tickets! I’m not good at mixing drinks by any means and would love to know more about cocktails in general. Plus hello! cocktail camp . . . I’m sure it will be a blast.
PLEASE!!!
Please free me from the bonds of mediocrity, and make me a Pro!
This sounds like so much fun! I love the art of mixing cocktails and I’d love to learn more!
This sounds like so much fun! I’d love to go. Plus afterward I could throw awesome cocktail parties with my new skills.
This sounds like a fun and interesting event! I’d love to go :)
Well drinks is one of my fav thinks to do now that I have a broken ankle and tons and tons of time. I want to go to summer camp like really people do outside of my apt of DOOM!
This sounds amazing – especially the DIY class. I would love to go!
I love throwing cocktail parties but I am running out of fun drinks to prepare! This camp looks like a great way to spice up future parties.
My creativity when it comes to mixing drinks is so disappointing. I’d love to fix that, and this would be the perfect opportunity to have some fun and try something new!
Just bought an old school 1970′s bar for my apartment, and a mixology event would help my skills in providing great drinks to my friends while entertaining! Would love to attend this!
i would love to learn more about cocktails and try some by the master mixologists! fingers crossed! ;)
I am not a church-goer. What else can I do to fulfill my Sunday? :D
This would be an awesome opportunity. A nice way to learn to mix coctails for at home gatherings. My husband and I are always trying something new!
This would be a great way to get ideas from the experts in learning the “mixology”
was just dreaming about this very thing last night…
I believe I NEED this! Well, my cocktail bar NEEDS this. Tired of Cosmopolitans and Lemon Drops. Oey vey!
Beer cocktails sounds like the best mix of all sort of worlds.
And let’s just say that the Doors’ Alabama Song is one of my ringtones. “Oh show me the way, To the next whiskey bar,
Oh don’t ask why, Oh don’t ask why.” ;)
What a lovely way to spend a Sunday Funday! I would love to learn the ways of the expert mixologists that will be in attendance! Love PDXPipeline: thanks so so much for all the great event news and information: You ALL ROCK!!!
I am trying to train myself from the ground up to become a craft mixologist, and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to attend this event to further my knowledge and make some great connections!
My family makes Italian moonshine (grappa) but there is not much art to pouring it, pour rocket fuel into shot glass. I would love to learn how to make some cocktails with it and more!
The cosmic powers compel me to attend this event and master the delicate art of drunkenness. You have been chosen to facilitate my entry to this event. The Gods of Inebriation have spoken. OBEY.
Wouldn’t WINNING be amazing? Mixology is kewl.
I need to upgrade my drinking habit
I’m already well versed in cocktail appreciation, however I could still use some pointers on cocktail creation. Once I return from camp, we’ll be clinking glasses to Ursula 1000. Won’t you join me for a drink?
I would love to win this because my partner and I have always wanted to throw cocktail parties straight out of the 1950′s but I can’t make a drink to save my life! We need help!
I’m 23 and I don’t know how to impress women with my drink making skills. Lots of whiskey and a tad bit of coke isn’t too impressive.
Wow, is this coincidental or what? Here are 3 really good reasons (at least in my opinion :)…
1) My little sister graduates from bartending school on Monday. Please let me go to this so I can go head to head with her and her new skills.
2) My fiance and I are looking to improve our cocktail knowledge so we can develop some really awesome signature drinks for our upcoming wedding. With this, I would be able to really impress our guests.
3) I just hit the big 30 this week so it would be an awesome bday present… you know you want to give me a present, don’t ya? :)
Did someone say cocktail? Ohhh…Cocktail Camp! Even better. Mix it! Who said beer cocktails? NICE.
Drinking is one of my favorite past times… Why not learn how to make some of my favorites from the pros?
These tickets would really lift my “spirits”….
Thanks for the opportunity!
A great way to meet people while drinking and learning! I would love to surprise my newly licensed bartender friend with these! And drink tixx are always a great plus…
My boyfriend and I have started cooking together at home. It’s a nice thing to do and it saves money. We’re getting better at cooking but are terrible drink makers. Unless it has only 2 ingredients (mainly a form of rum or vodka plus soda) we don’t do too well… This would be great to go to as we’ll be able to finally serve our guests a rereshing cocktail, even if the main dish doesn’t come out just right.
I make some fair concoctions of my own, but would love to know more.
Oh Please Pick me for this one! I love booze. There, I’ve said it. I would love to know how to put it together in fancy cocktails and entertain my friends and loved ones instead of just throwing the bottle up on the counter next to the red cups and yelling “come and get it!”
I like to pretend I have bartending skills when I throw parties but I rarely venture from the norm of mixes so it can’t be messed up but then again I guess it couldn’t be mind blowing either. I would love to take it up a notch and actually learn a thing or two.
Let me!
omg hooooray!!!!!!!! minty, cilantroy vodkay goodness. Yes please.
If I won this, all of my friends would be so appreciative, since I would use my “mad skills” to throw some amazing get togethers with equally amazing drinks!
I love to entertain and mix drinks for guests. Plus I’m a great addition to a party! ;)
I always have had innate mixology skills to go along with my fervent passion for alcohol and would love to study under these booze gurus. Starting to dabble with distilling and would appreciate tips to keep me from making booze that makes my friends go blind.
would be nice to take this class to accompany my brand new OLCC license.
After becoming a fan of Mad Men, I’ve tried out a Sidecar at a local pub but can’t seem to master it at home. Please help me become the new “Mrs. Draper”.
Sounds so much better than band camp!
I have nothing clever or witty to say, but I bet after I attended this camp I would.
Im in need of a good cocktail :)
I need some new cocktail and party ideas, I love meeting new people and well… booze :)
there will be so much to learn at this event. sounds amazing!
Need to start drinking more than just whiskey and tequilla shots. I never know whether to fight someone or take my clothes off. I’m also from Chicago and I am still waiting for Portland to wow me. Make it happen.
This would be a great class for an event planner like me, so I can share this knowledge with my clients.
I see this wonderful event as:
as an excellent opportunity to get out and mix and mingle,
a wonderful way to meet new people while drinking (and as it so happens, I am at my most charming after 1.5 drinks)
A chance to try new things and learn new skills,
and last but not least as a possibly life-altering, career-changing, rollicking good time.
Consider me intrigued!
Evrrrrraaayyboodayyy get together at the Cocktail Camp!
Evrrrayyyybooodayyy learn how to mix like a champ!
Grier, Gerdes, Ganam, and Greenough leadin’ the way!
See you bright and early this Lucky Sunday!!!!!!!!
Hope to go!!! There is “Amazing”….and then there is “Beyond Amazing”! This opportunity would be the latter. -sarah
Ooooh! Sounds delish! I’ve been a die-hard beer drinker and would love to expand my drinking horizons with some drink mixing knowledge.
This would be perfect for my weekend trip to Portland from Eugene. I’ve created a few cocktail recipes, but I would love to learn from the pros.
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Not only do I enjoy drinking (alcohol) and inventing cocktails, I am working on a blog in which I read novels and drink what the author drank while writing them or what the characters drink (think champagne or gin rickeys with “The Great Gatsby” or martinis for “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”). Then I write about both.
I would love the opportunity to learn how to make all the drinks to go along with what I’m reading and the chance to experience something I can’t afford (being the sadly unemployed college grad that I am). Pretty please with whiskey on top, pick me!