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What Does it Take to Be a Bartender?
Bartending Terms: Part 1
Bartending Terms: Part 2
Know Your Way Around a Bar
Bartending & Serving Drinks From the Gun
How to Rim a Glass With Salt or Sugar
Mixing Drinks for Drunk or Pushy Customers
Popular Liqueurs at Bars
How to Measure Alcohol
Types of Liquor at Bars
How to Stock a Home Bar
Alcohol Substitutions in Mixed Drinks
Spills & Mistakes as a Bartender
Bartending & Making Layered Drinks
Stuff to Have Behind the Bar
Bartending & Garnishing Drinks
Bartending & Stirring Drinks
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Summary: Making drinks as a bartender means knowing terms, like lace, box and bruise. Speak like a bartender with an award-winning bartender in this free bartending video.
Babz Zerillo has been bartending for more than five years. During that time Zerillo has worked at a martini lounge and at private clubs, restaurants and neighborhood bars. Zerillo was...read more
"Now I'm going to show you some basic bar terminology. Now these are all terms that you might hear one of your coworkers, your other bartenders say. But you just might want to know it yourself as well and they you do what you do when you do it. So first we're just going to make a drink up real quick as an example. And I'm going to make a tequila sunrise just because it's a drink I can show you a lot of techniques on. So first we're just going to pour our alcohol in. Next we're going to pour some orange juice in for the mixer. And now we're leaving space at the top round because now what I'm going to show you is how to lace a drink. Now what lacing a drink means is just pouring whatever topping you have on top of it. And you're just going to pour it right around the top. And that's how you lace a drink you're just going to drizzle it right around that area. It kind of gives it that effect where it's different, it's not mixed. Now for example say your customer says they don't want a drink like that they want it to be mixed then what you want to do, you could have a couple of choices because you could shake which would mean just taking your top of your shaker putting it together and shaking it. Another option would be to box the drink so if it's in this glass you could just take it and basically boxing is just throwing it from one container to the next. And usually you want to do it maybe about two times. Say for example you're making a drink which you don't really want to box it and you don't want to shake it because it's too hard on the ice and you don't want to bruise the ice, bruising the ice again means just chipping little pieces of the ice off, you could take your stirrer and stir it. And when you use your bar spoon."
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