Pour Drinks!!!!

Practice pouring drinks! Even if they're lemonade (with vodka). This is crucial. Crucial, I tells ya!

How to Be a Bartender ... Watch Bartenders!

This is perhaps the best piece of advice. Watch bartenders every time you're out at a bar, tavern and/or nightclub. Watch the way the bartenders handle themselves. Notice the way they use the equipment, the way they pour, mix and muddle. Also the way they comport (nice word, eh?) themselves.

The first step in becoming a bartender, or better one, is to model yourself after the best. Start today.

Happy drinking! Er, I mean, Learning!

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.

How to Be a Bartender...Virgin Mary

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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

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Vodka and Tonic Ingredients

1.25 oz Vodka

Top Off Tonic Water

Lowball glass

Vodka Martini

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Vodka Martini Ingredients

3 oz Vodka

.5 tsp Dry Vermouth

Martini glass

Shaker Tin

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