Cocktails
Learning plan overview
Languages
Available in English, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese
Courses included in this learning plan
Thoughtful service and delicious drinks distinguish a mediocre experience from one that's extraordinary. In this course, Introduction to Bartending, we cover the basic skills that bartenders master over time. Here we present bartenders' standards, requirements, and best practices for succeeding at work.
This course covers:
- Attitudes for service
- Behaviours to improve your bartender skills
- Mindful service skills
- Tips for improving the guest experience.
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At every hospitality venue, there are specific tools that can be used behind the bar that can take beverage presentation and service to the next level.
This course explores the tools that bartenders need to prepare, measure, mix, strain, garnish and serve beverages in a way that supports a craft beverage program.
Course topics include:
- Essential tools for preparing beverage ingredients
- Tools for measuring ingredients in front of guests
- Tools to support a craft ice program, including those for hand-cutting ice
- Tools for garnishing
- Tools for serving beverages to guests
- Miscellaneous tools for cleaning, storage and organisation in a bar.
Mastering the art of cocktail shaking is a crucial skill in bartending. This course delves into the three main styles of cocktail shakers used worldwide: the versatile three-piece Cobbler shaker, the efficient two-piece Boston shaker, and the stylish Parisian shaker. Each offers distinct advantages for mixing drinks and creating exceptional cocktails.
Throughout this course, you'll explore the unique features of each shaker, learning when and how to use them effectively to elevate your bartending techniques and impress your guests.
In this course, you will learn how to use bar tools to make cocktails quickly and efficiently, focussing on the build, stir, shake, swizzle and throw methods. These techniques mix, chill, dilute and aerate a beverage so you can offer guests cocktails that are the right temperature, texture and intensity.
This course is designed to help bartenders develop the skills needed to make cocktails, including how to:
- Build cocktails in their serving vessel
- Stir cocktails with good technique
- Shake cocktails using a tin-on-tin or Boston cocktail shaker
- Swizzle a crushed ice cocktail
- Throw a cocktail between two cocktail shaker tins.
Cocktails in the same family share similar ingredients, are made using the same technique and are served in the same glassware. Guests tend to have a preference for cocktails of a specific family, using a preferred ingredient, or served in a particular type of glass, so cocktail families are a useful frame of reference for recommending cocktails to guests.
This course, Basic Cocktail Families, covers the following:
- Seven basic cocktail families, including stirred, sour, highball, crushed ice, carbonated wine and dairy cocktails, and punches
- The flavour profile of each of the seven families
- The ingredients, glassware, and garnish commonly used in each of the seven families
- Tips for speaking about and recommending cocktails to guests.
Explore the reasons, timing, and methods involved in the art of throwing cocktails, and gain a deeper understanding of how this technique can impact the overall drinking experience.
This course will equip you with the essential knowledge of prioritising safety, using appropriate ingredients and tools, and applying the throwing technique while blazing a cocktail, enabling you to create impressive drinks for your guests.