A four-hour, hands-on workshop for working bartenders and Commercial Course graduates. Build your own bespoke syrups, master smoking and flaming, and finish the day with a signature cocktail you've designed, costed, and pitched.

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 

• Freelance bartending — how to set yourself up for success

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.