Ask a Bartender!
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It depends.smokeybearsb said:
If you're a girl, you show up and you get hired. Not hanging shit on any female bartenders, but in my experience they have a far easier path to the top than a lot of guys (the ones that hang around are all good bartenders, but we've had a couple that couldn't bar tend their way out of a wet paper bag if they had an electrified bar tending machine. I remember one girl who came in for a trial and got asked by a patron for a scotch and dry. She asked them if that was a beer. Needless to say she wasn't asked back.
Guys on the other hand generally start out as glassies, then move to bar back (the guys behind the bar that don't serve, they restock the fridges, the speed rack and the wells, and make sure the bar runs efficiently) or stock controller (the guys who deliver stock to the bars and are in charge of what alcohol goes where at what time), and then get moved up to the bar. For me it took over a year to make the transition all the way to bar. You always need to start somewhere, and where better than the bottom, right?
I find it fun. Some people have tried it and can't handle it, some people do it for a while, but just get ground down by it, others love it and end up devoting their careers to it. It all comes down to personal preference.
Tall glass. 2 Pieces of lime, don't muddle them, it releases the bitterness in the skin. Grab the bitters in your dominant hand and the glass in your other, but the neck of the bitters bottle inside the glass and make a circular motion with your wrist, coating the inside of the glass with bitters. Add ice and top up with lemonade. Also, don't be afraid of using other kinds of bitters than just Angostura. There are literally 1000s of different kinds of bitters out there - Fee Brothers, Angostura, Peychaud, Monin - give them all a bash and find one you like to have a more unique drink.ANTI-SANTA said:
Lulz. Douglas Adams invented it in the Hitchhiker's Guide, and according to that it's the best drink in the universe (and if the guide says it, it must be true, right? ha). Anyhow, some bars serve one with the earthly equivalents of the ingredients, I think it involves EverClear, gin, bourbon, tequila, rum, gatorade, and the worm from a mezcal bottle.gentleben said:
How much would something like that cost, if it was 18oz?
yeah for shame on you not knowing what it was and you've said "go read Douglas Adams" a few timesmendokusai said:
there are several versions of the drink and i do know that Zaphod Beeblebrox in Ottawa makes ones of them
Mojitos are easy enough, and a lot of people like them.Hardtofindaname said:None currentlyIt really depends on what you have at home. At my home I can make a lot just because I love alcohol (I mean this in the product sense rather than the chemical composition sense). I think well apart from the effects of the drink they are some of man's greatest creations.Hardtofindaname said:what's an easy to make home-cocktail?
You should be able to make a sour of just about anything. Take any base alcohol and add sweet and sour mix.
Cosmopolitans are easy, as are sidecars, old fashioneds and some gin fizzes.
What alcohol do you have at home?
60ml of Rum (Bacardi Superior, Bacardi oro or Bacardi 8)
Lime Juice
Mint
Sugar Syrup*
Soda Water
In a tall glass, grab 6-8 mint leaves, clap them in your hand and put them in. Put the lime juice and sugar in depending on your tastes, add ice, add some crushed ice, add the bacardi, add soda water, give it a stir.
*Making sugar syrup is dead easy. Grab a pitcher or jug, fill it half way with sugar, then pour an equal amount of boiling water on top and stir until all the sugar is dissolved.
Long Island Iced Tea - explanation is on an earlier pageEcher123 said:
There's a reason why I didn't give out the name of the bar I work in.ae86gamer said:
Egg white is quite common in cocktails, it's used as an emulsifying agent - it makes a cocktail sort of light, frothy and creamy without having to resort to milk or cream or anything. Generally you add egg white, then do a "dry shake" without ice for 10 or 15 seconds, then add ice and shake again.Isaac Dodgson said:
A moustache.triggahappyhaza said:
If you were to make it in my bar to the legal specifications of my state it would cost $14.25 + the cost of half a nip of Everclear and some gatorade, neither of which we sell. Everclear isn't even sold in Australia to the best of my knowledge, and in order to keep clear of the liquor licensing board we don't sell products with really high ABVs (Bacardi 151 etc). Also, we don't serve mezcal, and any tequila that has a worm in its bottle is a shit one. Some marketing guru made a campaign around "drinking the worm" to hock some terrible tequila, and the only reason there ever would be a worm in a bottle of tequila is because it is the larvae of an agave moth, which lives and breeds in the blue agave plant that tequila is made from. The presence of a worm suggests that the jimadores didn't do a good job of protecting the crop, or didn't clean the crop before it was mashed.mendokusai said:
for shame on you mr bartendergentleben said:
there is no such thing as tequlia with a worm in it. if it has the worm in it, then it's mezcal, no worm then it's tequila AND only if it's made in Guanajuato, Michoacán, Nayarit, and Tamaulipas in the Jalisco region of Mexico, most notably in the town Tequila
as a cool side note Sammy Hagar from Van Halen has his own brand of tequila call Cabo Wabo
Marilyn Manson has is own Absinthe called "Mansinthe", I think there are a couple of rappers who own vodka brands as well.cleverlymadeup said:for shame on you mr bartendergentleben said:
there is no such thing as tequlia with a worm in it. if it has the worm in it, then it's mezcal, no worm then it's tequila AND only if it's made in Guanajuato, Michoacán, Nayarit, and Tamaulipas in the Jalisco region of Mexico, most notably in the town Tequila
as a cool side note Sammy Hagar from Van Halen has his own brand of tequila call Cabo Wabo
Yes, they are the terms of the contract.Zeeky_Santos said: