Traverse City Cocktail Classes

Learn the craft.
Keep the good stories.

Hands-on private cocktail classes for wedding weekends, friend groups, company teams, and celebrations throughout Northern Michigan.

Plan a Cocktail Class
A Better Group Activity

Equal parts instruction and hospitality.

Nic’s cocktail classes are designed to feel social, relaxed, and genuinely useful. Your group learns why a drink works—not merely how to follow a recipe—while making and enjoying cocktails together.

The class can be shaped around your group, experience level, favorite spirits, and occasion.

How It Works

Choose the Direction

Classic cocktails, a specific spirit, seasonal drinks, technique, or a menu built for your celebration.

Make the Drinks

Guests practice balancing, measuring, shaking, stirring, tasting, garnishing, and presenting cocktails.

Enjoy the Room

The experience stays conversational and welcoming, with enough structure to keep everyone involved.

Perfect For

A class built around your group.

Wedding Weekends

A polished activity for welcome gatherings, bachelor or bachelorette weekends, and time with family or friends.

Company Teams

An engaging alternative to the usual happy hour for retreats, celebrations, and visiting colleagues.

Private Celebrations

Birthdays, reunions, vacation weekends, and groups who simply want to make better drinks together.

Frequently Asked

Cocktail class FAQ

Do guests need experience?

No. Classes are welcoming to beginners and can be adjusted for guests who already know their way around a mixing glass.

Can the class match our occasion?

Yes. Drinks and instruction can be shaped around the season, celebration, favorite spirits, or a chosen theme.

Where do classes take place?

Classes can be planned at suitable private residences and event locations throughout the Traverse City area.

Can non-drinkers participate?

Ask about non-alcoholic options when you inquire so the experience can be designed appropriately for your group.

Your Group

Let’s make something memorable.

Share your date, location, group size, and what you would love to learn.

Start a Cocktail Class Inquiry
See you at the bar.
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