
We combine practical hands-on bartending training and experience with online bartending classes where you can learn on your own time and at your own pace.
If you are looking to build an exciting career as a bartender, want a bartending refresher course, or simply want to embark on a journey for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, this course is right for you.
Our bartending school is located in Mississauga to serve students in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and surrounding cities in Ontario including: Ajax, Aurora, Barrie, Brampton, Brant, Brantford, Burlington, Caledon, Cambridge, Fort Erie, Grimsby, Guelph, Halton Hills, Hamilton, Ingersoll, King City, Kitchener, Lincoln, London, Markham, Milton, Mississauga, Newmarket, Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Oakville, Oshawa, Pelham, Pickering, Port Colborne, Richmond Hill, Schomberg, St. Catharines, Stratford, Thorold, Toronto (Downtown Core, East End, East York, Etobicoke, GTA, North York, North End, Old Toronto, Scarborough, West End, York), Vaughan, Waterloo, Stratford, Welland, Whitby, Woodbridge, and Woodstock.
The highlights include:
At 180 Drinks, we firmly believe hands on training and the fun factor is fundamental to learning to become an amazing bartender.
You will spend time during your bar labs making drinks in an authentic bar environment. You will take part in lively activities with music playing and orders flowing.
You will learn from our seasoned industry instructors how to be a bartender that is confident and highly skilled.
By the end of the course you will have the winning confidence to prepare you for a career in hospitality, and you will feel at home behind any bar.
We look forward to helping you earn your bartender certification to kickstart your career in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) or Ontario.
Great quality equipment is a prerequisite for great quality drinks.
During your course you will learn the art and science of how these tools and ingredients work together to help you create great drinks.
You will learn to use equipment that is not based on industry standards, but rather bar science best practices to craft superior beverages.
We look forward to geek out with you about bartending equipment at the best bartending school.
Our bartending school lab is a state of the art facility that is fully licensed and equipped with a commercial kitchen for learning that is public health certified.
Each student will learn on a professional bar station that simulates a real bar setup with integrated speed rails, garnish trays, and ice wells.
Our local bartending school facility helps ensure you get a great quality learning experience.
The theoretical and practical components of our bartending course promote best practices, food safety, and a total quality management approach to preparing drinks and serving customers locally or internationally.
This helps to ensure our bartending school graduates are:
Our focus on quality makes us the top bartending school in Ontario.
We use a blended learning approach that combines bartending college online education with bar lab experience while you train to be a bartender.
The benefits of a blended learning approach include:
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You might be wondering “What do you learn in bartending school?”
Our bartending course teaches you how to be the very best bar attendant. You will learn how to provide seamless customer service with personality, skill, and superior knowledge.
We start off with the bartending basics for beginners, and by the end of the course we ensure you have the qualifications needed to be a bartender.
Our professional bartending school focuses on both the theoretical and practical components of the profession during your training to be a bartender including:
You will become familiar with bar culinary equipment and its appropriate use including:
Our bartending course introduces students to the art and science of mixology.
You will learn the core transferable techniques and skills of mixology, and build on these to create increasing complex drinks throughout the course duration in a variety of cocktail families.
You will learn the from the best mixology school the fundamental skills of:
You will learn how various drink ingredients work together to create a tasty well balanced drink including:
You will learn how these drink ingredients are made, how to select and prepare great quality ingredients, and store your ingredients safely.
Our bartending course teaches you how to think and execute drinks like a bar chef from the ground up.
We will help you understand the five basic tastes of sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami. We will help you learn how to leverage these five basic tastes as well as texture and temperature to make a terrific drink both with and without liquor.
We will break down how understanding the drinks history, the drink making process, and the drink itself can engage the five senses of touch, smell, taste, sight, and sound, and use these to create a deep emotional reaction.
You will learn to make juices, mixes, syrups, cordials, bitters, foams, and other amazing items.
Near the end of the course you will get the opportunity to engage in your own creative experimentation by designing and developing your own new drink, and participating in a mystery box cocktail competition.
New Drink Development
We show you a customer focussed approach to develop a new cocktail based on lean startup principles. This is a scientific and iterative approach to beverage development where you control the variables, and observe and test results.
This process helps to ensure that drinks we make are made consistent, and made consistently better as you refine the concepts.
Using this approach you will learn:
Mystery Box Cocktail Competition
For the mystery box cocktail competition, your skills that you have assimilated throughout the course will be put to the test where you will have to think on your feet to create a cocktail from a box of unknown ingredients.
To be a fantastic bartender and achieve a master bartender certification you need an in-depth understanding of what goes into your customers’ glass.
You will learn the raw materials, production and flavouring methods, proper storage and care, history, and how to serve various spirits, liqueurs, amari, and fortified wines as described below.
Various spirits including:
Various liqueurs including:
Various amari including:
Fortified wines including:
You will then put your theory and knowledge into practice and taste these spirits, and make classic drinks with each of these spirits.
Humans have been drinking beer for over 10,000 years. We help you understand how magic happens when you combine malt, years, hops and water.
We help you learn to deliver a professional table side or bar beer or cider service with confidence.
You will learn:
We help you learn about this ancient drink, while teaching you the skills to deliver a professional table side or bar wine service with confidence.
You will learn:
How Long Is A Bartending Course? |
Availability |
March 1 to 31, 2021 | Full |
April 1 to 30, 2021 | Want To Register or Have Questions? Contact Us |
May 1 to 31, 2021 | Want To Register or Have Questions? Contact Us |
June 1 to 30, 2021 | Want To Register or Have Questions? Contact Us |
July 1 to 30, 2021 | Want To Register or Have Questions? Contact Us |
Aug 1 to 31, 2021 | Want To Register or Have Questions? Contact Us |
Below discusses the two course streams and how much is bartending school.
Regular Stream |
Internship Stream |
Duration: Four weeks
Online bartending course modules:
In class bar lab options:
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The internship stream will allow you to apply your bartending lessons and gain real world work experience as a bartender through a guaranteed paid placement.
Same online course modules and in class bar lab options as regular stream with added paid internship for 40 hours. |
Regular Stream Bartending Classes Cost:$799 |
Internship Stream Bartending School Cost:$1499 |
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