How To Be A Successful Bartender

Name: How To Be A Successful Bartender
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Online Bartending School: Secrets From a Working Bartender in Tribeca, New York City

Created byChristopher Makrides

Last updated 11/2021

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What you'll learn

The habits and techniques needed to bartend at the highest Caliber
How to make the most popular drinks at the highest caliber of service
Everything that a bartender does, a bartender’s mindset and duties. The entire job not just making the drinks like other classes
How to run your Bar, to serve, and how to make people like and respect you
The proper technique on how to make drinks
The proper technique on how to serve drinks and wine
How to get a job as a bartender

Course content

3 sections • 49 lectures • 3h 16m total length

Introduction To The Course, and What This Course Will Cover2:47

The Mentality Of A Bartender2:07
Develop the bartender mentality by focusing on a welcoming, positive, and safe experience and leveraging your strengths: wit, charm, or calm presence, to turn guests into regulars.
Giving A Safe Experience3:49
How To Make People Like You4:48
How To Make People Respect You6:49
Top Books:
3-Ingredient Cocktails, By Robert Simonson
Liquid Intelligence, By Dave Arnold
Amaro, By Brad Parsons
Nomad Cocktail Book, By Leo Robitschek
Wine Folly, By Madeline Puckette

Top Documentaries:
Somm, Made in 2012 Directed by Jason Wise
Scripts2:22
Steps Of Service2:29
What You Need To Know About Spirits2:25
What You Need To Know About Wine2:33
Describing Red Wine2:17
Describing White Wine1:37
Selling Bottles Of Wine3:41
Opening A Bottle Of Wine7:12
Pouring A Glass Of Wine4:09
Opening A Bottle Of Champagne5:05
Master the art of opening a champagne bottle by removing the seal, detaching the metal apparatus, tilting the bottle to minimize foam, and pouring into a flute away from guests.
Introduction To Duties0:19
Explore the most important duties of a bartender and learn to be ready and prepared to perform them daily.
Duties: Opening The Bar8:55
Duties: Cutting Lime & Lemon Wedges3:10
Duties: Making Simple Syrup2:06
Learn to make simple syrup, a common bartender duty, by dissolving sugar in hot water until clear, then cool, label with the date, and store for later use.
Duties: Making Lime and Lemon Juice2:10
Learn to prepare fresh lime and lemon juice with a handheld juicer, strain out pulp, label the date, and store or pour for immediate bar use.
Duties: Tapping A Keg2:43
Duties: Pouring Beer From A Tap1:52
How To Get A Bartending Job, A Step By Step Process10:51
Step One: Learning How To Bartend
The Beginning of your journey. You want to become a bartender, Have no experience.
Where do you start?
1. Take an online course
2. Go through the motions alongside the online course

Step Two: Getting Your Resume Ready
1. Get ServSafe certified
2. ETIPS certified
3. Fill out Bio
4. Fill out any work experience you have.
5. Get a professional picture (optional)

Step Three: Getting Experience
1. Do you have any contacts in a bar? Manager, friends or family who own a place. Ask anyone you know who could help you get a job
2. Look on craigslist daily for job openings under Jobs-hospitality,
3. Search on google for catering companies, catering companies are great because once you work a catering job you can then put on your resume, Catering Bartender.
4. Walk into places you would like to work at and ask “are there any openings for bartenders”

LINKS TO SERVSAFE AND ETIPS CERTIFICATIONS:

ServSafe Alcohol: https://www.hrfoodsafe.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjw0ZfoBRB4EiwASUMdYREN-Er-bbTDWbtZYCP4gH4w6n2MezxFNhAYXBhY9OMi6xsr2BqP5RoCZFMQAvD_BwE

eTIPS On Premise: https://www.gettips.com/online/index.html
End of Core Section0:19

Equipment4:32
How To Make Drinks4:21
How To Shake and Strain5:33
How To Use A Mixing Glass4:14
Building Drinks In A Glass2:14
On The Rocks Verses Neat2:11
Introduction To Drinks Section1:02
Vodka Soda2:23
Build a vodka soda in a highball glass by adding ice, pouring 1.5 ounces vodka to the mark, topping with soda water, and garnishing with a fresh lemon wedge.
Gin & Tonic3:31
Martini Introduction1:21
Regular Vodka Martini7:13
Learn to craft a regular vodka martini: 3 oz vodka and 0.5 oz dry vermouth, shaken, served up in a chilled martini glass, with three olives or lemon zest garnish.
Dry Vodka Martini4:13
Dirty Vodka Martini3:19
Regular Gin Martini3:43
Dry Gin Martini3:21
Dirty Gin Martini4:01
Martini Conclusion3:40
Margarita11:19
Craft a New York style margarita with no added sugar, using tequila, orange liqueur, and lime juice, on the rocks with a salt rim, and explore sweet or jalapeño-spiced variations.
Old Fashioned Traditional6:52
Old Fashioned Modern Take6:56
Cosmo4:10
Manhattan3:59
Learn to craft a traditional Manhattan by combining two ounces of whiskey (rye or bourbon), one ounce sweet vermouth, and Angostura bitters, then add ice and a cherry.
Mojito8:25
Espresso Martini6:40
Conclusion To Course0:40
Celebrate completing the foundation of bartending and gain confidence to advance your bartending career and journey. Ask questions on my website or Instagram, and I will respond.

Requirements

You do not need any bartending experience or prior knowledge to taking this course. The class is designed to teach from zero to hero. If you take the course and retain all of the information, implement the habits taught, and memorize the drink recipes, you can confidently apply to jobs the next day.
All students are required to have a notebook, and flashcards for memorization.
You do not need a bartender’s license to bartend.
You must be of legal drinking age in your country to enroll in this course.

Description

The no B.S. guide to becoming a successful bartender. Learn all of the techniques and habits to thrive in any cocktail bar in the world.

Ever wanted to bartend professionally? Then this is the course for you! Taught by a working bartender, this course will set the foundation for you to go the next step in your bartending career. All of Christopher's secrets after bartending in New York city on how to Bartend at the highest caliber. After this course you will know what it takes to become a bartender and what it takes to work as one behind the bar. This course has been remastered from it's original content from 2019. Every lesson has been remade, and more lessons have been added. What sets this course apart from other courses is that the teacher is a working bartender and you will see footage of Christopher working behind bars. You will know what a bartender actually does. That is the aim of this course. This course is not for people who want to just learn drink recipes, it is for people who want to become professional bartenders. That is why only 35-40% of the course are drink recipes. While the rest of the course are core lessons teaching the bartending profession.

“If you are looking for a job that makes good money, allows you to meet new people, people that could potentially help you get to that next level in your career, then bartending is the perfect job for you.” –Christopher Makrides

Who this course is for:

People who want to become bartenders or current bartenders who want to refresh their foundation of bartending

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 3min

Core Section23 lectures • 1hr 24min

Drinks Section25 lectures • 1hr 50min

Requirements

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