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Diageo Bar Academy Essentials
Become a better bartender by developing your knowledge and skills.
Beer Essentials
This module will teach you what you need to know about beer, from the basics of brewing, through to styles and flavours.
Exploring Drinks with Food
This module reveals how to dovetail your drink offer with food to create better customer experiences.
Responsible Serving
This course will help you understanding the importance of measuring drinks correctly and the impact of alcohol.
Serve with Spirit
This module is an essential course if you’re intending to progress as a bar professional.
Guinness Essentials
In this module, you’ll learn how you can serve a beautiful, great quality, great-tasting Guinness, every time.
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An Expert Guide to Pouring the Perfect Guinness
Become a Muddling Maestro
Discover the art of muddling and learn how to use it to add more robust flavors to your cocktails and serves.
Cocktail Air 101
If you’re looking for a way to raise the bar even further- to give the guest something that elevates their experience- to dial that frothy, light texture all the way up to 11, you should consider a cocktail air.
Discover Fat Washing
Understand the interesting practice of fat washing in mixology and learn how to use it to create inspired cocktail serves.
Essential bar skills: garnish
Are your garnishes up to par? The creativity and thought that goes into your serve’s garnish can be the difference between unforgettable flair or complete flop. We explore when to use which garnish and how to make sure yours are a cut above the rest.
Foams vs Airs Part I
Drinks like these wouldn’t look or taste the same without their fluffy aerated consistency, which is why bartenders have been experimenting with flavored foams and airs over the recent decades.
Foams vs Airs Part II
At first sight, a cocktail with a beautiful foam or air on top can draw attention from guests at the bar, but what’s harder to get right is how that foam or air matches with the rest of the cocktail flavor-wise. How can it enhance or contrast the rest of the drink's ingredients is the true challenge.Foams vs Airs Part II: How to successfully integrate them into your cocktails
At first sight, a cocktail with a beautiful foam or air on top can draw attention from guests at the bar, but what’s harder to get right is how that foam or air matches with the rest of the cocktail flavor-wise. How can it enhance or contrast the rest of the drink's ingredients is the true challenge.
Guest Bartending – Try the Latest Trend
New skills, fresh perspectives, and wider exposure – whether you’re a well-rounded bartender looking to try something new, or a bar owner who wants to mix it up, guest bartending has many benefits.
How To Craft Quick, Quality Cocktails
From efficient use of the back bar to clever preparation, Luke Whearty & team at Byrdi Bar reveal insider tips on how to create tasty yet quick cocktails.
HOW TO MAKE SYRUPS AND CORDIALS FOR YOUR COCKTAILS
Discover how to make your own syrups and cordials using herbs, spices, and fruits to infuse depth and flavor into your craft cocktails.