Fundamentals of Bartending Certification

Yes, you'll receive certification to prove you passed the course so that your workplace knows you successfully completed it.

This course is particularly designed as a training program for existing bar staff or those being promoted at their exisiting workplace. While it isn't designed to get you a job at a new establishment, it could help you advance your career and take it behind the bar at your current workplace.

Yes, it is! This training program goes over the best practices behind the bar, helping newer bar staff as well as refreshing and building on the knowledge of existing bartenders.

The program is over 20 hours in content alone, not including tests and quizzes. We recommend that the students take their time to complete the course over a week. We designed the course to be a universal training program that can be applied widely to all bars, so customization is not needed.

We utilize several different methods of teaching. We have videos for visual learning of key points as well as text content with graphs and tables that dive deeper in explaining the key points. We also use quizzes along the way, designed to help students retain the key points in a formula that is similar to that of the final exam.

In this comprehensive course, you'll review a range of topics from proper opening & closing protocol to handling over-served customers. Each course you take will cover different topics, though.

Absolutely! The purpose of this training course is to help make the ins and outs of daily bartending life clear and uniform so that your staff can become faster, more confident, more efficient, and better at customer service.

Yes, we do touch on responsible alcohol service and how to appropriately handle over-served guests. This is a real-life look into the daily responsibilities of bar staff.

We focus on best practices that are timeless, fundamental, and universal so that they can be applied at every bar. Some bars follow trends, some set them, and others choose not to worry about them. Our course gives the students the neceessary skills to be successful in all three environments.

There is no formal accreditation system for bartenders, although you may have to earn an alcohol-serving license in your state or region. A mixology course from a company with a good reputation and which offers you certification (like ours!) is definitely more respected in the industry than others.

Absolutely! This is a universal training program, teaching the core concepts that bartenders need to be successful behind the bar, offer a consistently great customer experience, and bring in more revenue.

This is the info we wish we’d had during our bartending careers! Beginning bar staff will get a strong foundation while experienced bartenders can brush up on their skills with the benefit of learning consistently with the rest of your employees.

Bartending Fundamentals will teach basic and more advanced foundations of bartending, from how to use barware, setting up a bar, and cocktail structure.

Yes! The course covers classic cocktail recipes, introductory spirit knowledge, the essentials on how to make mixed drinks, and understanding drink structure so your bartenders can begin to play with recipes and create their own.

Definitely! From the broader concepts of flavors and cocktail structure down to the very specific ways to properly use knives, cut garnishes, and successfully operate various barware, we will cover it.

Your staff can take this course anywhere with an internet connection and at their own pace in approximately 15-20 hours. This mobile-friendly course contains six lessons with 3-10 topics in each lesson, each followed by quizzes and then a final exam to demonstrate their knowledge and completion.

While there is no true “accreditation” authority in the hospitality/bartending world, this course will give them the information they need to do their job and do it very well. Each participant will also receive a certificate upon completion of the course.

No, since every state’s requirements are different, your employees will still need to meet the bartending prerequisite in your state.  We recommend visiting this site to see what your state requires and find an appropriate training program if necessary.