Bartending: You Can Be Yourself

Many of our students are looking for an exciting new way to make their wage. Finding their natural sociability and flamboyance a poor fit for many restrained environments provided by more restrictive businesses and lines of work. Bartending is fun, you get to meet lots of new people and you can really be yourself. So if you’ve found yourself seeking a more fun and exciting way to make the wages that you need you’ve landed in the right place. This is step one to you becoming a Rockstar bartender.

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Beginners

For students with none or just a few years of experience in cocktail making.

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Advanced

Improving Mixology Techniques for students with a minimum of 5 years experience in a cocktail bar.

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Think About Bartending

There are many people dragging themselves through the days in jobs and roles that aren’t inspiring them or keeping their spark of creativity going. Many of our students have grown tired of washing or grinding, taping or stacking, and have long wished for something better. Other students are already in the field of bartending but are looking to up their game and stand out from the crowd. If you’ve ever wondered how some of the top bartenders managed to get into those prestige bartender roles then you are already on step one to getting there just by being on this page. The super cool bartenders out there earning great wages & tips, meeting new and fascinating people, as well as having the time of their lives. But how did they get there? And how can you? All these top bartenders have spent a lot of time and effort honing their skills behind the bar as well as harnessing their personalities and natural social abilities.

How to Choose the Best Schools for Bartending

Attending one of the Schools for Bartending can help you learn about compliance with alcohol sales and service as well as allowing you to experience real, practical, hands-on experience behind the bar. Top bartenders not only have an expansive knowledge of drinks they fully understand the reasons why expert mixologists will use particular techniques to deliver the drink perfectly with the right wow factor. Along with this, the best schools for bartending, like Spirit Lab London, will teach you how best to use your natural personality to make you a unique and memorable bartender but one with strong people skills who can not only perform mixology as though it was an art form but do so under the pressure of the bar while keeping cool. Not all the Schools for Bartending give you this real world practical experience but at Spirit Lab London it’s an essential part of the course. At our school you will gain a WSET Diploma Recognised Worldwide & UK Professional Certification in Bartending. It is well known globally throughout the industry.

The Criteria for Choosing the Best Schools for Bartending

Any student thinking about a prospective school for bartending should consider these points before starting their course:

1 – Choose a bartending school where there is a low ratio of students-to-teachers to make sure you’re going to get the individual attention that you will need to achieve your bartending goals. At Spirit Lab we keep our numbers low to give you the learning experience you deserve.
2 – Choose a bartending school that offer follow-up courses to perfect your skills and learn new techniques such as the Spirit Lab Advanced Mixology course.
3 – Choose a Bartending School that makes you aware of the laws regarding alcohol sales. All the best courses will give you real bartending experience so it is important that you know the law and your responsibilities. Spirit Labs include real cocktail bar experience and you will be fully trained to thrive in that situation.
4 – Choose a Bartending School that show some of the successes and comments from previous students. Spirit Lab London is proud of the achievements of our previous students and love what they say about our school.

5 – Choose a Bartending School that will gain you an accredited certificate. At Spirit Lab London you will gain a WSET Diploma Recognised Worldwide & UK Professional Certification in Bartending. It’s very important to make sure that any of the Schools for Bartending you consider will gain you the qualification that you want to get.

Life at our School for Bartending

While our courses are intensive & interesting, expecting a lot of hard work from our students to bring you up to the level that you are looking to get to, our students all have a lot of fun both during school time as well as outside of it. Many of our students become friends after meeting at our bar school. We are perfectly based in Central London to start any after school city adventure off and many of our students do just that.

Get Real Mixology Experience in our Real Cocktail Bar

Perfect Mixology requires training but no specific educational background. A mixologist is a special kind of bartender, one who can make and serve drinks at a different level. For a bartender to really stand out as a mixologist, a course like the Spirit Lab International Mixology Course can really make the difference to you. Students need to be sociable and friendly, work swiftly but with amazement, and also know not only how to talk but how to listen too. The training that you will get at Spirit Lab combined with the experience that you will gain in our real cocktail bar will help you mould yourself into the style of bartender that you’d always dreamed of levelling-up to.

WSET Worldwide Recognised Diploma & Professional UK Certification in Bartending

Make sure whichever of the Schools for Bartending you choose that you’re going to be gaining a certificate that is recognised across the world and will define you as a UK professional bartender. We work closely within all the regulations that allow you to gain a WSET Diploma & Professional UK Certification in Bartending that is recognised worldwide. We aim to give you every chance of jumping up into the bartending roles that you’d always dreamed of.

Do We Teach Everything There is to Know About Bartending?

In a word, No. No we don’t. Many people think that they’ll choose a course from one of the schools for bartending, spend a short time there, and then they’ll have learned everything about bartending. The complete knowledge of all bartending could not be squeezed into any short course. The subject is too huge to cram in. We offer two courses. The International Mixology course has been set up to help a bartending beginner start their journey towards being a skilled cocktail maker and mixologist. Our Advanced Mixology course has been set up to take already skilled mixologists and help them become better able to create new and amazing cocktails by fully understanding the mixology process. While we will make sure you leave our school fully armed with an array of amazing drinks recipes that you can execute to perfection, real experience behind the bar, and the start of your Rockstar Bartender personality shining through, it will be down to you to take it to the next level. Get out there, learn all you can. Ask more experienced bartenders lots of questions during slack times. Look across the bar – what do you know about all the drinks there? Research. Absorb everything. Learning is a process that never stops. This is why we find people coming back to us to take on our Advanced Mixology courses – always seeking the next level they can get to. This could be you.

We’ll Help You Become the Best Bartender You Can

When bars are hiring they do not only look at skills & experience, although these are of course essential, they also look for personality. It is important to know how to use yours to express yourself and stand out as a bartender whilst still providing great service at a speed that will satisfy the most urgent of customers. The best venues hiring the top bartenders in the world will base much of their hiring upon personality. It’s not just how well you can mix a drink, bartending is a role that means you are dealing with people on a human level. Great service is not just about always giving the same service. Often it is about understanding the situation that you are faced with. Often it is about listening as much as it is about talking. So while you learn to mix drinks at our school we will also help you to learn about how you can stand out as an individual while still adhering to good bar etiquette that will make you well respected professionally in your chosen bar or venue.

Your Search for Schools for Bartending is Over

And your Rockstar bartender lifestyle will commence soon. Imagine yourself in one of the best venues in the world, behind a shiny perfect bar, as various world leaders or celebrities pop over to speak to you. And there you are, with your expansive cocktail knowledge, allowing you to suggest either a Colour Changing Martini, Corpse Reviver or Black Widow to help them celebrate Halloween. This could be your life. It could start right here just by choosing the best of the schools for bartending.

Spirit Lab London. Amongst the Best Schools for Bartending

We like to really get to know our students and work very closely with you to help you achieve your goals. Please have a look around our website and if you need any more information please do not hesitate to contact us. We’ll be happy to help you. We’re very proud both of the fantastic adventures and achievements of our past students and also to be seen as one of the best schools for bartending.