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Become a Bartender
If you’re serious about becoming a bartender, you’ve come to the right spot. Learn all the bartending skills and knowledge you need to get your foot in the door.
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On this resource page, I answer all the most popular questions on how to become a bartender, including:
Should I go to bartending school?
Do I need a bartending license or certificate to become a bartender?
How do I get a bartending license?
What's better: bartending school or an online bartending course?
How much do bartenders make?
And a TON more. At the top of the page are bartender video lessons and if you scroll down, you will find bartender articles, depending on whether you are a watcher or a reader.
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You have little or no experience (or even if you have experience)
You don't know the first thing about drink recipes or how to memorize them
You have always wanted to bartend but you have no idea where to start
Lately my email box has been flooded with the same question over and over which is: Dave, should I even try to become a bartender during these uncertain times of COVID? And if so, how do I become a bartender, especially if I have no experience? How do I learn the bartending skills I need?
Whenever I’m asked how to get a bartending license from someone wanting to become a bartender, I can’t help but picture some stiff government worker—perhaps an ABC agent himself (Department of Alcohol Beverage Control)— sauntering into a bar in a long, tan trench coat (and possibly a detective’s fedora) and barking gruffly at the bartender
One of the biggest mistakes I see from those aspiring to become a bartender, is that they spend so much time thinking about and worrying about the bartending skills they need to learn and all the drink recipes that they need to memorize, that they are completely blind to the most important skill of all:
The following discussion is an exchange I had with a guest years ago as a bartender. I have revived this conversation for anyone who is still not quite sure how capitalism or the transaction of money works in bars, as well as for anyone who likes the band Nickelback, as I assume you have some sort of learning
If you want to know how to become a bartender, you’ve come to the right place. I don’t know what you’ve heard or what you’ve read up to this point during your bartender research, but the path you need in order to become a bartender is not what you think. It’s not bartending school (more
Hello, my name is Duane. I am a master mixologist. If you do not believe me, just ask anyone at the bar and they will most definitely confirm this fact based on the many masterful cocktails I have mixed for them. If you need a cocktail, please do not call out, “Hey bartender,” because I will not respond,
Let me guess: you want to become a bartender, but you have no experience, and you want to know if bartending school is the answer to deliver those results? I know, it’s like I’m inside your head, right? Kidding of course, but I imagine that you are here because you totally need bartending school advice.
Before we dive into all the details of how to become a bartender, I have to ask you, Mr./Ms. aspiring bartender, how did you happen to arrive here? And I don’t mean to this site or this article? I mean, what has been going through your head in the past few days or weeks which has led