Bartending & Mixology How - To's and discussions for beginner and experienced bartenders!!
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I watched your videos before my first shift of bartending. Here I am four years later watching this again. I'm done with the industry. Burnout. And sexual harassment. Or else I would rather work in a fancy hotel or restaurant bar. No more dive or club bars for me
I absolutely loved this video, it was very helpful for understanding everything on a base level! I do have a question about the Jack Daniels classification though. To my understanding, there is a federal classification for whiskeys and bourbons do not explicitly have to be from Kentucky. While there are a number of prerequisites to be considered a bourbon, one of the biggest is that it must have a mash of at least 51% corn (just like how Rye Whiskey has to have a mash of at least 51% Rye). Jack Daniels meets all of these prerequisites and is federally classified as a bourbon. However, they like to market themselves as Tennessee Whiskey so that they can portray themselves as being above bourbon. I think many people might call it an American whiskey, a sour mash, etc. but I don't think it is wrong to call it a bourbon. In fact, I think it technically is one. I am pretty new to this stuff, so I could definitely be wrong. I would love to hear what you think about its classification (:
If you want your bartenders to keep serving you, and I am a working pianist. Not a bartender but great rule of thumb. I can bee at the bar all day and into the evening and still drink. Some people and I have seen this at work oh this pisses me off. Doooooooooo not snap at the bartender and call Hey!!!!!!!!! Bartender Hey!!!!!!!!!! Hey!!!!!!!! Hello!!!!!!!!!! Hello!!!!!!!!!! Oh my god i have seen that at work at one of the high end venues. This is totally uncalled for even to a server or waitress in a restaurant. Anyways. At the bar. The bartender will notice you if you sit quietly and keep your hands at all times in your lap while waiting for your bartender to get to you. They are not just there to serve you. They have the whole entire bar to serve. Just cause they don’t serve you quickly doesn’t mean that you are cut off. It means they are taking care of other things and you as a customer need to not bee a jerk. The bartender is going to get to you. Have patients. Keep your hands in your lap and also just smile. The bartender will see that and come to you. They know that you are there. And me, when I get to the bar what I do is I hear the bartender call down to me and she or he depending who is working at the time will gladly get me. I am totally blind and that is how you go into a bar. Yes. Totally blind business owner and working pianist. That is all the more reason why I can stay at the bar and drink, cause, i do not drive. I take the bus. But just let the bartender say “I’ll bee right there!!” That is your sign to wait!! Patiently. The bartenders all at the bar I do go to really love me. They know I have love and respect for them. If you do things correctly, they will love you to death and want to keep on being your friend. So to this I give a shout out to my very awesome bartenders who see me having a great time and help me unwinding. After work. Shout out to the bartenders at Parkway. Jessie, Jenny, Kammille Nick Alonna, Laura and bailey. Rock on!!!!!!
Alley I so love your channel and your voice so calm and peaceful. Yes. I drink it up like a boss and I love to go to the bar. My job is that of a working pianist so I can probably assure you that i love drinking cause i am a pianist. I am the life of the party but respectful when I am drinking. I also am totally blind and ride the bus everywhere I go so I have the blessing of being able to drink as much as i want and get on the bus and not having to worry about getting behind the wheel. That is a totally god send blessing. I am so funny at the end of the night after drinking but maintain that respect for everyone in the bar. Never have i had any problem with sexual groping and freely touching girls or non of that. Never ever as long as i have been to the bar and drinking. I mean I can drink my ass off all day and still maintain that respect and love for people. Anyways that is like this. When I am at the bar and many people don’t realize this but the best thing to do as a patron at a bar is to sit there quietly and smile. That is what i do. Never shout or yell your bartender’s name and say “hy!!!! Get me a drink miss bartender!!!” Never ever ever as a patron whistle or bang your silverware on the table. You can sit there all night and the bartenders will love you if you just keep quiet and drink and have fun. Even after the alcohol gets to my head I still maintain that respect cause I know what i am doing and how i should act. A lot of people will whistle or bang the table or call the bartender and that is not going to make them come faster. What i do is sit their with my hands in my lap after a drink, maybe give a quick and i mean Quick Look over at the bartender if i know they are their and smile and then turn my head facing forward. Sitting there quietly and patiently with my napkin in my lap and hands in my lap. The bartender will appreciate that. The same thing is when I am riding the bus. There is a way to ride. Many passengers on buses will automatically say the bus driver is rude. Think of the bus driver as your bartender. Kind of crazy idea right but where i am going with this. They have a job to do. Hauling you around the city transporting you after a night of drinking if you are responsible don’t start making conversations with the driver. Let them take the lead. Most people think the driver is rude but they are not rude they are only doing their job and some bus drivers don’t want to talk. They just want to transport and keep their eyes on the road where as others will keep you awake by talking with you. The bartender is there to take care of you during the night so yo hare safe and having fun. So rules apply. With the bus driver let them start the conversing. Bus drivers are super good at starting conversations. You as a passenger follow the lead. With the bartender though if you are wanting your bartender just sit there and wait and smile. They are there they will see you. And then everyone will bee happy. Your night will end greatly not a night in some stupid drunken tirade. Hahahahaha. Then the bartender will smile at you next time you come in cause they know how you were the last time. If everyone did this bartenders would bee so happy with everyone and I am sure that you all would bee soooo happy to serve them. But there are elicits that you have at the bar and riding the bus. With the bus driver you never want to start talking with them. Let them start. After all. They are in the front of the bus driving so that means they are in the lead. Let them say something first before you talk. This is coming from a person who has taken buses all their life and still to this day. At the bar as a patron always remember to all my fellow patrons never yell or shout at the bartenders. Listen and sit there quietly and engage in conversing with other patrons at the bar. Never raise and call your bartender over to you. Raising your nad and shouting and snapping your fingers is gonna get you missed and they won’t want to serve you. Just smile turn your head and smile and then quickly take your head and keep looking on forward. Bartenders will love you for this and this is coming from a bar patron. I also let the bartender take me out of the bar at the end of the night to assist in catching buses. Making sure I get home safely after a great night laughing it up and having fun. You will as well as your bartenders will want to remember the drunken nights you had if you are respectful and happy. But going to a bar cause you had a pissed off day and drinking so you can fight? Well, then just don’t drink if you are going to do that. You are suppose to go and have a great time and bee happy not fight your but off and yell cause you had a piss ass day that really nobody wants to hear about. That will just get you kicked out. Try not as a patron to bring your problems to the bar. Leave that for another day. Drink and have fun and laugh a little and get loose but fighting and assault and stuff that iwll get you arrested at the end of the night is. Absolutely not the way to go. And if you do end up getting sick throwing up, what ever you do try. And try and wait till you get home. Don’t throw up all over the bar. That is nasty and the bartender really doesn’t want to have to clean up your mess… it does happen. R i have had that happen. But with me if I did that for example which i did the other day when I came back I got sick at home not at the bar. I proceeded to eat more when i got home and had a coffee and I got sick after that. Hahaha. But not at the bar. That happened at home. And then when you get home just go to bed and sleep it off letting all the alcohol come out sweating and having to use the bathroom. Don’t fight with anyone just sleep it off and talk in the better part of the morning when you feel better. You are there at the bar to have a wonderful time and have fun not fight and do all this crap that will cause your favorite bartender to have to cut you offf and kick you out. Not a good way to end a day. Or having the police after you cause the bartender had to call on your stupidity. I wish all bar customers knew this.
I am 16 and a waitress. I know nothing about Alcohol, but I wanted to get familiar with it. I love this video it was very easy to understand for beginne4r like myself.
Holy shit you are a fucking scientist.. I will copy and paste your strategy exactly! I have zero experience but am very tired of Domino's, Uber Eats and DoorDash treating me like total garbage... I am going to lie and say I have 5 years of experience
I suppose this has also to do with US anger at Afruca for many reasons which may include the ICJ case by Namibia vs Germany who is a staunch ally of the US in the Isarelis vs Palestinians war. I think Africans should think twice before considering going to these countries which are so angry with Africans for various reasons. They have said it, Africa will be punished.
I just started as a bartender with 0 knowledge of alcohol or anything. I really don’t drink. This video is AMAZING and I’m definitely going to be watching all the others. Thank you so much for creating it!
Top with club soda??? No legitimate bar “tops” an old fashioned with club soda. How many people have watched this video and thought this the way you make an old fashioned. Scary.
Thank you for this video! Perfect timing as I have been wanting to apply at a local brewery. This has been super helpful. I just love your boston shaker set!!! Where did you find it? 💙
Hey rockstar! Your videos are of great quality. I really love how you actually care about your viewers lol I know you haven’t made a video in a while but if you see this keep going bc you have a knack for it!
Thanks for all the info I have learned a lot .I used to work in a club, served a little this a little that. I'm talking about 1994 . Wanted to go to bartender school it was so diff back then. I didn't go through the School is was harder for women back in the days, just like all other things. But I enjoy the new insight u r giving us. Thanks and best of luck on everything that you do. Always watching and learning. Thanks for all the great lessons I have learned lots. Blessings. L
Thanks for the info. I've been looking for the diff of the ale and lager ?s . Thanks for clearing it out for me , I will definitely follow your info. I'm an ale drinker love foster premium ale. It's hard to find it in my hometown of Orlando FL. Thanks for the info. Best of luck on the channel,u explain very well. Thanks. Cheers. Salud.
Bartending school is mainly recommended because they will most likely have connections to getting you in the door for a bartending job. Maybe some people don’t have the connections someone else has, and as a result, them going to a bartending school makes sense. Also, you don’t need a degree for anything you do in general but it still looks good on a resume.
