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Basic Bartending Course

What will I learn?

Improve your bar work skills with our Basic Bar Work Course, made for people working in bars and restaurants who want to learn how to make proper cocktails. You'll learn important things like muddling, shaking, and stirring drinks, and also find out about the old classic cocktails and where they came from. You'll learn to choose and change ingredients, use bar tools well, and make your drinks look good with garnishes and the right glasses. You go learn to treat customers well and put all your knowledge together in a simple guide, all through short lessons where you get to practice a lot.

Apoia's Unique Features

Online course accessible for life
Certificate compliant with educational standards
Printable PDF summaries
Online support always available
Select and arrange the chapters you wish to study
Set your own course workload
Instant feedback on practical activities
Study at your convenience, without needing internet access

Develop skills

Strengthen the development of the practical skills listed below

Learn proper cocktail making: muddling, shaking, stirring, and layering.

Choose the best ingredients for making perfect cocktails.

Chat to customers about the cocktails and their history.

Make cocktails look nice with garnishing and choosing the right glasses.

Use all the bar tools and learn the correct measures.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload.

  • Choose which chapter to start with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can add

You will be able to generate more chapters like the examples below

This is a free course, focused on personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.