by Angela Prosper | Jun 12, 2024
Join us at Commellini Estate for dinner and our summer cocktail class, Havana Nights! In the late 1800s, when not busy conquering Cuba or digging the Panama Canal, American engineers, military personnel, and laborers experienced both the tropical environs and exotic...
by Angela Prosper | Apr 18, 2024
Oh, tequila. You are many things to different people; as for your history, now that’s quite the story! Our May class is about tequila: its origins and how it came to America. We’ll make three tequila cocktails. Unknown to the first cadre of 19th-century professional...
by Angela Prosper | Apr 1, 2024
This gin-focused interactive class will enlighten the gin enthusiast while mixing and sipping a chronology of 3 gin-based drinks. Gin has a distinctive history, from the streets of Rotterdam to American bathtubs during prohibition and from gin houses to clubhouses....
by Angela Prosper | Jan 27, 2024
We’re excited to collaborate with Commellini Estate in north Spokane. Come join Renée Cebula, from Raising the Bar, and learn how to make “Cocktails with Love”. Renée is a historian. A history educator for 20-plus years, she researches American...
by Angela Prosper | Jan 27, 2024
The 2/11 class SOLD OUT, so we’ve added a second! Step out of the cold and into the world of Tiki culture with our first cocktail class of the year. Learn how the forces of 19th-century drinking culture, Prohibition, war, and tourism brought together the rise of...
by Angela Prosper | Dec 7, 2023
Take a tasting trip through 1960s and 70s cocktail culture through the drinks served at the World’s Fairs in the great PNW. From Seattle’s Century 21 Exposition to Spokane’s Expo 74, drinking culture was having a moment but on the precipice of...
by Angela Prosper | Dec 7, 2023
From icons like the Ferris Wheel to the Golden Gate Bridge, inventions like the telegraph and the zipper (yes, the zipper), and foods from the hot dog to soda pop, American World’s Fairs showcased ingenuity and invention to millions of visitors. For thirsty...
by Angela Prosper | Dec 7, 2023
Sip like it’s the Paris Exposition of 1867 or 1889 and more! Step back in time to the early World’s Fairs, where, during cocktail hour, the American cocktail often took center stage. Participating countries shared their culture by showcasing their wines...
by Angela Prosper | Dec 7, 2023
This class is SOLD OUT. We scheduled a second tequila class on May 12. Click on May 12 on the calendar for details and ticket link. Email Renée — owner@raisingthebarNW.com — if you have questions. Thank you for your interest in our classes. <3 Oh,...
by Angela Prosper | Dec 7, 2023
Our spring cocktail class with Hogwash Whiskey Den is about gin: the origins, the journey, and once to America, its prominence in American cocktail culture. And, of course, the drinks. This gin-inspired interactive class will enlighten the gin enthusiast while mixing...
