Advanced Bartending Techniques Workshop

A four-hour, hands-on workshop to learn advanced cocktail techniques and how to modify popular cocktails into bespoke creations.
About this Event

Advanced Bartending Techniques is a four-hour workshop that takes a working bartender from competent to memorable. You'll spend the day on the techniques that separate good bars from great ones — bespoke syrups, bitters as a finishing tool, custom rimming, smoking, and flaming — alongside the commercial skills you actually need on the floor: costing a cocktail, pitching it to a manager, and selling it to a guest.

What this class is

Advanced Bartending Techniques is a four-hour workshop that takes a working bartender from competent to memorable. You'll spend the day on the techniques that separate good bars from great ones — bespoke syrups, bitters as a finishing tool, custom rimming, smoking, and flaming — alongside the commercial skills you actually need on the floor: costing a cocktail, pitching it to a manager, and selling it to a guest.

What you'll learn

• Advanced garnish prep
• Make flavoured syrups from scratch
• Exploring bitters and tinctures
• Modify classic recipes by swapping herbs, juices, or ratios
• Practice bar-chef techniques: custom rim, expressed-oil garnish, and flamed citrus
• How to build, cost and pitch a bespoke cocktail to a manager
• The art of hosting a cocktail party or private event

Who this is for

• Commercial Bartending Course graduates and current students looking for the next rung.
• Working bartenders sharpen their technique and add tricks to their service repertoire.
• Serious enthusiasts with prior cocktail experience.

What's included

• Four hours of hands-on instruction with a working bartender as your lead instructor
• All ingredients, glassware, tools, syrups, and bitters
• A take-home recipe sheet and the Build Your Own Concept worksheet
• Cocktail costing worksheet
• Tasting flights of syrups and bitters throughout the class
• Every cocktail you build, you drink

Prerequisites

Completion of the Commercial Bartending Course or demonstrable prior bartending experience.

This is not a beginner class. We assume you can already build a classic Old Fashioned, margarita, and gin martini cleanly.