HOSP6613 - Bartending 101

Maui College - HO'ALA

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Course Description

Professional Bartending is an exciting career that offers employment opportunities on Maui and around the world. From customer service, bar setup to pack down, and everything in between, you will gain fundamental hands-on experience mixing classics, making tropicals, and exploring basic beverages.

This is a class for the basics of crafting cocktails including The management and the legal responsibility of serving alcoholic beverages, preventing intoxication, ID verification, ingredients, tools, techniques, and equipment, basic formulas and theory, customer service, as well as best practices.

Our Professional Bartender instructor will guide you through basic training and knowledge in mixology, professional hospitality industry operating standards, and exceptional customer service.

Course Outline

Tentative Class Schedule and Outline

Day	Topic	Homework Assignment	Class Lab
1	Job Description, Professionalism, Legal Responsibility, Customer Service Standards	Study Quiz: Industry Ads, Glossary of Terms	Bar Orientation, Equipment, Inventory, Well, Glassware, Staffing
2	Bar Set Up, SOPs, Security	Study Quiz: Sanitation Wine and Beer Types	LC, Legal Orientation, BOH rules. Cust SVC
3	Fermented Beverages, Distilled Alcohol, Mixes	Study Quiz: Types of Drinks	Identifying Wine/Beers, Typical pours, quality and measurement
4	Basic Recipes, Regional	Review: Maui Liquor Statute	Blended Drinks
5	Personal Liability, LC/ Liquor Card / Maui Statutes	Study Quiz: ID Checks, Drink counts, Managing Inebriation	Specialty Drinks
6	Cost Controls, Inventory	Study Quiz: Identifying and Ordering Product	Stocking/ Bar Back/ Managing time
7	Management, Cashiering/POS (optional), Review	Study Quiz: Leadership Reading, Review Test for Liquor Card	Customer Service Training
8	Review, Practical and Written Exam	Practical and Written Exam	Practical and Written Exam. Distribution of Certificate

Learner Outcomes

SLO’s

Distinguish and identify tools, glassware, spirits, materials, and inventory

Accurately measure spirits and integrate cocktail components correctly for basic drink recipes, served in the proper glass

Learn the ergonomics and logistics of bar setup

Discuss professionalism, proper sanitation & customer service

Discuss liquor laws, ID checks

Notes

Students are required to wear professional attire: Covered shoes, plain white shirt, dark pants, and black apron.

Required Textbook: Kindle or HC "Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions" [A Cocktail Recipe Book] – October 30, 2018

by Alex Day (Author), Nick Fauchald (Author), David Kaplan (Author)