“These courses involve physically making the drinks yourself, with the real alcoholic ingredients, not a simulated mock-up! Your sense of taste and smell are vital to making great Mixed Drinks (Cocktails)."
“Chefs learn to cook with real food, not simulated. Why would you learn to bartend any other way?”
"…and thoroughly amalgamating all the compounds, so that the taste of neither the bitter, the sweet, the spirit, nor the element, shall be perceptible one over the other, is the grand secret…"
Jeremiah P Thomas
Gary Beadle
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory…
Albert Einstein
“The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
Safety is the biggest illusion sold by people who never lived it in the first place. You need to take risks and get out of your shell to live an extraordinary life. Meet new people, travel to new places, try new and bizarre ideas in your work, relationships, and physique – because it’s an absolute pleasure to create something entirely new.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 1900)
Our Courses
Bartender
School
A twelve week intensive Bar School, equipping bartenders to mix two hundred Cocktails and work in a busy Cocktail Bar
Bartender
Basics
An introduction to being behind a bar, get your feet wet in a real working Cocktail Bar. This is an interactive class where you’ll be hands on making the Cocktails and tasting them.
Rum &
Rum Drinks
Rum is the naughty boy of the spirit world, it conjures up images of pirates and privateers, let's take a look at this most interesting of spirits.
Gin &
Gin Drinks
Perfect for gin lovers and curious imbibers. We’ll taste different styles and find their perfect drink to mix them in.
Whisk(e)y &
Whisk(e)y Drinks
Whiskey or Whisky? Let’s find out, no cigars, no stuffiness, let’s just taste some good booze and mix some tasty treats as well
Mixing Famous New Orleans Drinks
The quality of the mixed drinks served in New Orleans is the stuff of legends and was long ago the bastion of the sophisticated drinker.
Beer
A look at the history of beer and tasting many styles of beer, including Lager, Wheat & Ales.
Apéritif & Digestif
We’ll learn about this wonderful category full of flavours and colours then we will apply this knowledge by mixing an array of wonderful classic drinks using Apéritif & Digestifs.
FINANCIAL CONTROL GUIDELINES
If you’re in or getting into business, no matter what the business, this is a layman’s view of all the technical jargon. Financial control doesn’t have to be hard work, just organised.
Stock CONTROL GUIDELINES
Within the hospitality industry computer literacy and formal office skills are not high on the training schedule, let’s make GP easy for everyone.
