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Bartender Skills and Techniques
Enhance your bartending techniques with online courses, industry expertise and educational articles offering practical step-by-step guidance, tips and tricks.
Bar Management & Leadership Training Courses
Gain free, industry-accredited certificates and master bartender skills and techniques at all levels with our practical online courses.
Service Skills Courses
Diageo Bar Academy Essentials
Become a better bartender by developing your knowledge and skills.
Serving & Recommending With Skill
This course will help boost sales and increase revenue in your bar.
Responsible Serving
This course will help you understanding the importance of measuring drinks correctly and the impact of alcohol.
Communication & Teamwork
In this course, you’ll learn just how important effective communication really is within your team.
Timekeeping
This course will help you prioritise tasks so that you can make the most of your time.
Disability Awareness
This 30-minute course will update you on the correct actions needed when serving customers with additional requirements.
Equality & Diversity
Learn how important equality and diversity really is in this online course.
Essential Bar Skills Courses
Gain the essential skills for working behind the bar that venues look out for.
Serve with Spirit
This module is an essential course if you’re intending to progress as a bar professional.
Beer Essentials
This module will teach you what you need to know about beer, from the basics of brewing, through to styles and flavours.
Guinness Essentials
In this module, you’ll learn how you can serve a beautiful, great quality, great-tasting Guinness, every time.
The Perfect Serve with Simple Cocktails
This module will help you take the first steps into the exciting world of cocktail-making.
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.
Advanced bartender skills
Train in skills that will help you advance your bartending career.
Elevating the Guest Experience
The right customer experience in your revenue can boost sales and boost customer loyalty. Complete this course to learn how to enhance your guest experience.
Leadership and Negotiation
This Diageo Bar Academy module will help you progress your bar career by giving you a better understanding of leadership.
Whisky Flavours for Cocktails
Learn everything you need to know about how whisky gets its flavour. Find out how to put this knowledge into practice with in depth guides on whisky cocktail flavours and experimentation.
Selling with menus
This module is all about creating great menus to build reputation and attract more customers.
Bartender Skills and Techniques Training
Improve your bartending skills with our easy-to-follow training and expert guidance covering everything from basic bartending how-tos to advanced drinks-making techniques.
Service Skills 101
Mastering Beer Service
Learn how to offer your guests a faultless beer service every time.
Expert Guide to Pouring the Perfect Guinness
Learn to pour the iconic, beautiful Guinness pint flawlessly.
Recommending and Upselling
Recommendations and upselling are useful tools to help you elevate and enhance the guest experience whilst demonstrating your professionalism, expertise and passion for your craft.
Essential Bar Skills: Communication
The art of great hospitality lies in great communication. Learn how to master both verbal and non-verbal communication so you can deliver truly memorable hospitality.
A Guide to Responsible Alcohol Consumption
As a bar professional, it’s especially important to be alcohol aware. Learn about responsible alcohol consumption and how it can have an impact on health, safety, and social wellbeing.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
Find out some of the most common mistakes bartenders make and how you can avoid them.
Speed and Efficiency
Mastering speed and efficiency will help you serve perfect drinks and deliver great service to your guests, leading to happier customers who want to return time and again.
Bartending Basics: Essential Skills, Techniques And Tools
Are you a master of your craft? Discover the essential bartender skills you should hold to progress and improve the guest experience in your bar.
Basic Bar Tools
Whether it's a shake, stir or strain, learn how to confidentlly use each bar tool to make perfect cocktails for your guests.
Cocktail Stirring
Stir your way to cocktail-making perfection with style tips, tools and techniques to help you master the subtle art of stirring.
All About the Jigger
Explore the jigger's history and usage to understand more about its contribution to the art of cocktails.
Cocktail Strainers
Learn more about the history of the tool and best practices for using cocktail strainers when making drinks.
Mixing Glasses
A mixing glass is a key piece of equipment for any stirred drink, especially classic such as a Manhattan or a Martini. Discover more about the history of this essential tool, its various forms, and the nuances that define its use.
The Bar Spoon
The barspoon is a versatile tool that has come to represent the craft and skill of bartending. Learn more about the range of uses and styles to suit personal of this essential bar tool.
Types of Cocktail Shaker and How To Use Them
Learn more about the different styles of cocktail shakers and some tips on how to use a cocktail shaker effectively.
A Bartending Guide to Glassware
Glassware is a staple in any bar and an important part of elevating the customer experience. Take a deeper dive into the world of drinking glasses.
The Essential Guide to Speed Pourers
The speed pourer ensures a drink is prepared with speed and accuracy. Learn more about this important gadget and the role it plays in the hospitality industry.
A Bartending Guide to Blenders
The electric blender transformed how cocktails were made. Find out the history, styles and best practices for using the blender to make standout cocktails your guests will love.
How to make cocktails
From mastering the art of shaking to creating cocktail garnishes, learn the basics of brilliant cocktail making.
How To Craft Quick, Quality Cocktails
From efficient use of back bar to clever preparation, Luke Whearty & team at Byrdi Bar reveal insider tips on how to create tasty yet quick cocktails.
Sweetening Your Drinks with Simple Syrup
Discover how simple syrup can be a great way to add sweetness to your drinks. Learn how to create the ingredient and add it to your serves.
Cocktail Garnishes: A Complete Guide
Give your serves the wow factor with our expert guide to cocktail garnishes -full of tips, ideas, and inspiration for perfecting your drinks.
BECOME A MUDDLING MAESTRO
Learn how to use a cocktail muddler properly and master the art of muddling to create delicious drinks for your guests.
The Art of Layering in Cocktails
Discover the advanced bartending art of layering and learn how to craft visually beautiful and delicious serves.
The Complex World of Cocktail Ice
Understand the importance of ice when crafting a cocktail and learn about the different types and ways it influences the final product.
Mastering the Art of Cocktail Shaking
Unlock the secrets of perfect cocktail shaking with expert insights, foundational techniques and advanced styles to elevate your cocktail-making game.
The Art of Building Cocktails Directly in the Glass
Dive into the world of the built cocktail with tips and technique essentials and learn how to make drinks like a Whisky Highball directly in the glass.
A Bartender Guide to Infusion
Infusion has transitioned into bartending, producing innovative flavour combinations. Learn how to enhance your cocktail creation with this technique.
How to Make Syrups and Cordials
Discover how to make your own syrups and cordials using herbs, spices and fruits to infuse depth and flavour into your craft cocktails.
Creating your own cocktail
Learn the essential cocktail techniques to help you craft your own cocktail serves and menu.
Understanding Foams and Airs In Cocktail Creation
Explore how foams and airs can be used to craft artistic, visually striking cocktails and how they can improve the texture of your drinks.
Smoking Cocktails
Explore the exciting art of smoking cocktails to add an aromatic edge and take your drinks to the next level.
Using Acids in Cocktails
Learn how acids can help you craft delicious cocktails and some of the best methods to use them in your own serves.
Understanding Fermentation
Discover the history and role fermentation has in creating classic drinks and how you can use the process to inspire unique serves.
Discover Fat Washing
Get to know fat washing -a technique used in mixology to infuse spirits with flavours from fats or oils.
A Guide to Cocktail Clarification
Cocktail clarification has become a quest for many mixologists. Explore this technique and the best tools for clarified cocktails.
A Guide to Ice Cutting and Carving
Explore the captivating world of ice cutting and carving in drinks making and discover how this Japanese legacy can unlock unparalleled cocktail craftsmanship.A Bartender Guide to Infusion
Infusion has transitioned into bartending, producing innovative flavour combinations. Learn how to enhance your cocktail creation with this technique.
A Guide to Carbonation in Cocktails
Carbonating cocktails can enhance guests sensory experience of drinks. Discover how to achieve optimal carbonation in your cocktails.
A Guide to Cocktail Ageing
A growing bar trend is teaching enthusiasts the value of patience: cocktail ageing. Find out its allure and how it will enhance your cocktail making.
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.
Theatrical Flair for Cocktails
Discover how to add theatricality to your guest experience and serves in a thoughtful way. You'll learn how to improve the flavours and presentation of your drinks to create enthusiastic regulars.
Advanced cocktail techniques
Break down the most advanced mixology with these practical training articles.
Spherification: The Culinary Art of Capturing Liquids
Spherification and reverse spherification techniques are really revolutionising cocktail making. Learn tips and techniques to introduce this in your bar.
The Art of Sous Vide
Discover the unique art of sous vide and how you can use the process to impart new flavours to your cocktails and drinks.
The Rise of Rotary Evaporators in Cocktail Making
Discover how bartenders are using cutting-edge rotovaps to elevate cocktails, extract unique flavours, and push the boundaries of traditional drink-making.
Using Dry Ice and Liquid Nitrogen in Cocktails
Explore the use of dry ice and liquid nitrogen in your cocktails, learn applications and execute them to wow your guests.
Garnish Dehydration
Garnish can add flavour nuances and aesthetics that capture the drinker's attention. Elevate your garnish further using the art of dehydration.Theatrical Flair for Cocktails
Discover how to add theatricality to your guest experience and serves in a thoughtful way. You'll learn how to improve the flavours and presentation of your drinks to create enthusiastic regulars.
Tools for Making Cocktail Foam
Get the lowdown on the cocktail foam and air equipment bartenders need to use this innovative technique.
Latest Bartending Trends
Check out the latest bartending techniques and trends for your venue.
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.
Low and No Trend
The Low and No Alcohol movement is storming the bar world. Not only does it allow guests to support more balanced choices, but offers more exciting alternatives to those choosing not to consume alcohol. Discover how you can create and promote low and no serves in your venue with our helpful tips and business resources.
Future Flavours: Drink Trends Revealed
The way guests are consuming alcohol is always shifting. Read on to discover why premiumisation, low and no serves and spritz cocktails are going nowhere.
2024's Top Bar Industry Trends
Discover the latest trends reshaping bars in 2024. From minimalist cocktails to fat washing, learn how your bar can stay ahead of the curve.
Game-changing Gin Trends To Try This Year
Need some gin-spiration? Head Bartender at Atlas, Lidiyanah Keller, explains how to use cutting-edge drinks trends to create classic gin cocktails with a twist.
2024's Cocktail Trends: A Bartender's Guide
Liam Davy, Head of Bars at Hawksmoor, shares cocktail trends that will make a splash in 2024, plus top tips for implementing them in your bar venue.
The Future of Drinks
Explore how industry experts believe drinks and bartending will change over the next ten years in this live panel webinar.
Lifestyle Tips For Better Industry After Hours
Learn how to improve your routine after hours to lead a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle with this Diageo Bar Academy webinar.
Gin 101 With WSET
Discover all-things-gin with Lidiyanah Keller, Head Bartender at Singapore bar Atlas, no.16 in the World’s 50 Best Bars 2022, and Denaya Jones-Reid, a Wine and Spirit Education Trust Association (WSET) Educator.
Tasting Tequila with the Experts
Learn everything you need to know about tequila in this masterclass session with tequila experts Liam Scandrett, Karina Sanchez and Eduardo Gomez.
Advanced Mixology: Tools, Techniques & Trends
Discover cocktail crafting at home with our free online mixology Masterclass led by renowned bartenders! Sign up now.
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