Do you know the difference between a highball and a lowball?
How are Shirley Temples and Roy Rogers the same? How are they different?
Where should liqueurs and cordials be stored?
Knowing the answers to these questions and the many others you'll explore in Bartending 101 are essential to your overall bartending success whether your aims serve personal or professional purposes.
And the best part of this course is that it doesn't just aim to be a how to manual for the bartending career ladder. Its just as effective if your goals are a bit smaller in scope, like trying to impress dinner guests and social acquaintances or orchestrate corporate parties and events.
This class is conveniently self-paced, so you don't have to reschedule work or personal events in order to make the grade. After seven lessons, you'll have gained the skills and insights needed to transform yourself into a brilliant bartender.
Enrollment is continuous, so there's no reason to put it off any longer. Act now and you can take the mystery out of mixology.
Bartending 101 is an informational course (which basically means that it doesn't offer any licenses or certifications) geared towards anyone interested in improving personal or professional bartending skills. Although the course is open to anybody thats interested in mastering the essentials of bartending, if you're considering it professionally, you'll need to be at least 21 years old.
This course is a great choice for people who are self-motivating and able to stay on task without a whole lot of active participation from the class or teacher.
Bartending 101 is broken down into seven separate classes that center around five primary goals:
- Familiarizing you with the rules and guidelines surrounding alcohol awareness in your state.
- Teaching you how to set up your bar from where different bottles and brands go to which glass you should use.
- Learning the differences between the drinks most especially the variations in alcoholic content.
- Providing you with a wide variety of drink recipes more than enough to keep your customers and/or guests happy.
- Arming you with a vast array of employment tips and tricks that you can use to gain a competitive edge in your local bartending arena.
Its an all-inclusive course, which means that all of the materials you'll need to pass are included in the lessons, links and assignments provided. While you don't have to run out and buy any textbooks, the instructor does recommend that you pick up a copy of the Bartenders Black Book (7th Edition), which you can find on Amazon.com.
The instructor offers continuous office hours and is never more than an email away in the event that you have specific questions or concerns that you need addressed.
Each of the seven lessons contain 10 point assignments and quizzes. In order to successfully complete Bartending 101, you'll need to earn an average grade of 70% or higher.
Whether you dream of owning your own bar or night club, putting yourself through college or simply wowing your guests with a cocktail party they'll (hopefully) remember, Bartending 101 is the way to ensure that you can make it happen.
Bartending skills always have been and always will be in demand. Before you know it, you'll have all that you need to start splashing out daiquiris, martinis, screwdrivers and Harvey Wallbangers until your hearts content!
