Phoenix, Arizona Bartending School

Bartending/Mixology

The most complete Bartending training program available! Be able to work almost anywhere with the skills and confidence needed to make a profitable and rewarding career.

Bartending/Mixology Course

Our course is 40 hours in length, which can be taken in one or two weeks. We offer flexible class times to work around your schedule as well as free class refreshers.

The lessons cover over 150 drink recipes, preparation and memorization techniques. We also cover beer, wine customer service techniques and responsible liquor service.

We believe the best way to learn is through hands on training. We don't believe bartending is a trade that can be learned by video, on-line schooling or at home sitting on your couch! We work hard to fully prepare our graduates for a career in bartending, whether it be a nice, local neighborhood bar or the fanciest hotel or night club in town. Their success is our school's reputation.

Our Professional Mixology Course includes the following lessons:

  • Cream Drinks - 4 hrs.
  • Martinis & Manhattans - 4 hrs.
  • Shooters - 4 hrs.
  • Tall Drinks - 4 hrs.
  • Testing - 4 hrs.
  • Highballs - 4 hrs.
  • Cocktail - 4 hrs.
  • Margaritas Beer / Wine - 4 hrs.
  • Alcohol - 4 hrs.
  • Final Testing - 4 hrs.

Class Times

Our bartending class gives you the availability to learn at your own pace in just 40 hours. We offer one to five week bartending classes taught by professional trainers that have at least 10 years on the job experience. In addition, we offer classes in Bar Management,Alcohol Awareness (Arizona Title 4), Flair Tending, and Bar Magic.

Click on a tab class below to see the schedule.

Morning Bartending Class

Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 1:00 pm, two weeks in length. Mixology Course length is 40 hours.

Classes start weekly

Afternoon Bartending Class

Monday through Friday from 1:30pm to 5:30pm, two weeks in length. Mixology Course length is 40 hours.

Classes start weekly

Evening Bartending Class

Monday through Friday from 6:00pm to 10:oopm, two weeks in length. Mixology Course length is 40 hours

Classes start weekly

Bar management Class

Last two weeks of eacxh month from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings

Subject to availability

Alcohol Awareness - Arizona title 4

One day alcohol class. Required prior to bar management class

Every Friday.

Bar Magic

Last Saturday of each month from 11:00am to 4:15pm

Call 602-548-1300 or 1 800 BARTEND to make reservations

Flair Bartending

Call 602-548-1300 or 1 800 BARTEND to inquire about classes and schedule

Flairtending

The movie "Cocktail" with Tom Cruise and other movies such as "Coyote Ugly" have contributed to the interest in the art of flair bartending, as evidenced by flair competetions held around the world.

Our flair class provides you with unbreakable bottles, properly weighted tins, and flat speed openers, all for you to keep. The class progresses from beginning flair knowledge to intermediate and advanced techniques. Free class refreshers are offered to all students. These skills not only provide lots of excitement to bartending, but also increases the bartender's value to the establishment as well as increases their tip potential. Of course these skills increase as the students practice over time. It has always amazed us how fast students progress from the beginningto the end of class.

Flairtending is an art, not a science. Everyone does things a little differently, and if it looks good, breaks nothing and makes the customers happy, then everyone wins.

Bar Management

It all looks so easy. Pour drinks, sell drinks, ring in the profits. When in fact, extracting profits out of a beverage operation is quite challenging.

Between waste, spillage, free drinks, over pouring, theft and other operational maladies, the manager job is getting tougher every day. Covering virtually every aspect of a beverage operation, this class begins with bartender and server productivity to explaining how to use pour cost formulas to increase profits, reduce establishment's costs, raise the service bar and how to do it in a step - by - step format.

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The Bartending Academy of Tempe, Arizona
1250 E. Apache Blvd. Suite 108
Phone: 480-921-9925