Raise The Bar PDX

to one of our favorite signature whiskey cocktails:
Buffalo Billy 🥃
• Black Mango Tea-infused Buffalo Trace Bourbon
• Billy Rye
• Peychaud’s Bitters
• Orange Bitters
• Simple Syrup
• Lemon Oil
• Laphroaig Spritz

What’s your favorite go-to whiskey cocktail?? Tell us in the comments below 👇🏼👇🏼

Happy NYE friends! We’ve missed you here at Raise The Bar, and we’re excited to roll into 2025 with a whole new assortment of cocktails for you to enjoy.

To celebrate the new year, we’ve got a delicious champagne cocktail for y’all - the ‘Party At Midnight’ - a delightful take on Hemingway’s Death In The Afternoon.

It stars Lucid Absinthe paired up with Mazarini Prosecco and a dash of Regan’s Orange Bitters finished with a lemon twist.

It’s the perfect drink to ring in 2025 and leave 2024 in the rearview mirror.

Keep an eye out tomorrow morning for another delicious concoction to help with whatever unwanted effects you have from enjoying too many PAM’s tonight, and later this week for the start of Mocktail Month to celebrate all of you that are participating in Dry January this year!

Sunsets on the Oregon coast are top notch 👌🏼 Whether you call the beach home or you’re heading out for a quick getaway, let us help you create the perfect cocktail for the ultimate experience.

Coastal Crisp
• 1.5 oz Wild Roots Vodka
• .5 oz St. Germaine
• .5 oz Simple
• 1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
• 2 dashes Peychaud’s Barrel-aged Bitters
Shake with 5 apple slices (we used honeycrisp) and fine strain into your favorite stemmed glass

Drop a comment below and tell us what you’re drinking on your next getaway 🌊

Happy holidays, friends! Yule love our festive new cocktail:
Most Wonderful Thyme of the Year!
•Spar Lemon Vodka
•Drambuie
•Thyme
•Lime
•Cranberry

Come down to and get merry with us!

• La Vida Mocha •

Del Maguey Vida Mezcal
Gran Gala
Coffee Liqueur
Irish Cream
Chocolate Drizzle

It’s , which you can bet these love to celebrate! While is sipping on a nonalcoholic version this year (it’s just coffee and cream if we’re being honest), mine features Irish whiskey and . The whipped cream and sprinkle of cinnamon on top bring it all together for an absolutely delectable Irish coffee, perfect for the start, middle, or end of the day.

Slide into our DMs for the full recipe and others like this!

Sláinte! ☘️☕️

Our good friends and gifted us some homemade sweet & spicy almonds and walnuts so OF COURSE I had to make a tasty simple syrup out of them. I added a touch of maple syrup 🍁 to the mixture during the boiling process to give it a nice, rich flavor.

Swipe 👈🏼 to check out the Sweet ‘n Spicy Maple Old Fashioned 🥃, then slide 👉🏼 into our DM’s for the full recipe and others like it!

Well friends, Thanksgiving is over and you’ve got a smorgasbord of food crammed in the fridge. You’re probably wondering what the heck to do with all of that delicious cranberry sauce because, let’s face it, you always seem to make too much every year. Well fret not! We here at Raise The Bar have the perfect solution—make it into a tasty cocktail!

For this holiday quaff, I (JP) wanted to do something quick and easy to offset the exhaustive amount of time already spent in the kitchen, so I decided to do a riff on the crowd-pleasing Moscow Mule. The cranberry and ginger flavors play well together and Portland newcomers was the perfect vodka to use as the base. The company filters their spirit through Pacific Northwest timber and hazelnut charcoal, resulting in a perfect flavor combination to keep you jolly all season long.

The Saucy Mule
1.5 oz Headwind Vodka
1 spoonful cranberry sauce (homemade preferred)75 oz Fresh Lime
Dash of house-made Rosemary syrup
Shaken + topped with Fever Tree Ginger Beer

DM me for the Rosemary syrup recipe!

Oh, and Haley would like to add that this is also delicious when served without vodka as a mocktail. The baby currently growing has her out of the liquor game...for now.

Hey everyone!
Haley here, half of Raise the Bar PDX. We’ve been quiet on here for a while but after taking some time away to focus on summer fun with the family, we would like to re-introduce ourselves!

Raise the Bar PDX is a new family run (seriously, just the two of us) business that’s here to help with all of your home bar needs. We specialize in homemade fun-flavored simple syrups, personalized batched cocktails for events like anniversaries and weddings, instructional zoom sessions teaching cocktail basics and new recipes, and, when it’s safe to do so, event bartending!

John-Paul and I were married June 2019. Our love story began at—you guessed it—a bar. A love of coming up with experimental cocktails (JP) and drinking them (me) brought us together. After years of doing it for fun, we decided to bring our talents to the masses. There’s nothing we love more than seeing people enjoy our creations, except maybe each other. Thanks for following us along on this journey!

Anyone else feeling the need for a cocktail (or three)? Reach out for a customized Election Day Quarantini!