Friday, August 31, 2007

Counting Your Pours

When you have a regulation "pourer" atop a liquor bottle, you'll be pouring about 1/4 of an ounce for each second you pour. So 1 ounce of liquor would be a 4-second pour, or a 4-count.

Monday, August 27, 2007

How to Be a Bartender...Virgin Mary



Virgin Mary Ingredients

2-3 oz Tomato Juice

1 tsp Worcestershire Sauce

To Taste Tabasco Sauce

Dash To Taste Cracked Red Pepper

.5 tsp Celery Salt

Lowball glass

Bar Spoon

Vodka Tonic



Vodka and Tonic Ingredients

1.25 oz Vodka

Top Off Tonic Water

Lowball glass

Vodka Martini



Vodka Martini Ingredients

3 oz Vodka

.5 tsp Dry Vermouth

Martini glass

Shaker Tin

Sunday, August 26, 2007

How to Be a Bartender...with Doe-Nuts!

Just wanted to announce that How to Be a Bartender has been selected to join the Doe-Nuts network of blogs, loosely (and unofficially) connected to comedian Mike Doe! Woo ooh!

My fellow Doe-Nuts include:
Doe-Nuts
Great MMA Fights
How to Be a Bartender
How to Cook Food
Funny Female Comics
Funny Bloggers
Darn Funny Videos
Darn Funny Books
Darn Funny Movies
Funny Standup Comics

It's a proud day for us and we just wanted to say thanks again for your support...and keeping it real!

Whiskey Sour



Whiskey Sour Ingredients

1.25 oz Whiskey

Top Off Sour Mix

Lowball glass

White Russian



White Russian Ingredients

2 Parts Vodka

1 Part Kahlua

Top Off Half & Half

Lowball glass

Friday, August 24, 2007

Wine Presentation Technique

Intro to How to Be a Bartender

Description: How to Be a Bartender helps both amateur and professional bartenders become better mixologists with instructional videos and articles, as well as links to great bartending resources online. It's your FREE online bartending school.

Wine Spritzer



Wine Spritzer Ingredients

Fill Glass Chardonnay

Top Off Club Soda

White Wine glass

Wrapping a Napkin Technique