Training, community, and mentorship, without leaving your phone, tablet, or computer.

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Show off your original cocktail creations on the drink menu, to your friends and family, and on social media!
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All students get lifetime access, so you can come back anytime to refresh your memory.

Interactive Quizzes
Test yourself with no-pressure quizzes to check your understanding along the way.

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Cheat Sheets
Includes printable “cheat sheets” for each section to help you remember what you learned and refer back in the future.

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Lessons, quizzes, and exam are mobile-optimized so you can watch and learn on the go.

– without wasting valuable time or expensive ingredients along the way.
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Show off your original cocktail creations on the drink menu, to your friends and family, and on social media!
A SOLID INVESTMENT
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LOVE YOUR BAR
No more recipe burnout! Love your bar again with the skills to truly express your creativity with your drink creations.
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FAQ’S
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While there is a bit of overlap, the focus and most of the content of these two courses are very different. BarSmarts spends a great deal of time on the history of spirits and learning existing cocktail recipes. The Mixology Certification, however, is focused on learning how to create your own cocktails – and in great detail.
BarSmarts is a great resource to learn cocktail and spirit history, as well as learning the classic cocktail recipes you should know as a bartender.
This program focuses instead on teaching you to design your own recipes. For example, in our "Souring” unit, we discuss specific details about pH levels of citrus, different varietals of all the major citrus categories, and how they compare to the pH and flavor profiles of the main varietals. Then we discuss how to use that information to create a balanced cocktail.
You can take the course without any tools or ingredients at all – but to get the fullest experience, you’ll want to work through the homework suggestions for each module.
To get the most out of the program, here’s everything you’ll need to do all of the homework:
Ingredients:
- Fruit: Limes, lemons, oranges, grapefruit
- Sugars: Table sugar, turbinado or demerara sugar, honey, and agave or maple syrup (Optional but helpful: A couple low-calorie sweeteners like Splenda, NutraSweet, etc.)
- Spirits: Six different spirits or styles of spirits
- Bitters: One bottle of Angostura bitters
- Eggs: Fresh eggs, pasteurized egg whites, or powdered egg whites
Tools:
Any brand of barware will work, but we highly recommend our brand (linked below)
- Cocktail shaker
- Hawthorne strainer, julep strainer, and fine strainer
- Bar spoons
- Muddler
- Jigger(s) for measuring ingredients
- Vegetable peeler or sharp knife
- Citrus juicer