Has anyone worked in a bar?
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Topic: Has anyone worked in a bar?
Posted By: Rachael21
Subject: Has anyone worked in a bar?
Date Posted: 30 June 2008 at 3:46pm
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Ok so I am working in a bar at the moment but I'm having a bit of trouble remembering all the special names of drinks and how to make the cocktails so could anyone help me out with special names of drinks and how to make common cocktails? I though I'd make my own wee sheet to print out so when its busy I don't have to keep asking.
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 30 June 2008 at 4:37pm
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Freak... I was gonna answer this but I can't remember!
Does the bar have a drinks list you can take home with ya? What are the common orders you get? |
Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 30 June 2008 at 6:18pm
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There are heaps of websites which seem to do this..name, description and how to make various cocktails:
http://www.cocktail.com/ - Cocktail.com http://www.liquorlive.com/ - Liquor Live http://www.idrink.com/ - IDrink.com |
Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 30 June 2008 at 6:37pm
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What bar you working at rach? ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: gypsynita
Date Posted: 30 June 2008 at 8:16pm
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I worked in a cocktail bar for a while and we just had a cheat sheet hidden behind the bar somewhere... ------------- Anita Mum to Cian (Aug 08), Josh (Jun 10) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 30 June 2008 at 8:30pm
yeah where are you working rach? we could all come in and harrass you ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 30 June 2008 at 9:17pm
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I know where she works.... -------------  
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Posted By: Candkids
Date Posted: 30 June 2008 at 10:16pm
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i worked in a bar, i even have my bar managers licence :D
i used to go thru the cocktail books and photocopy the most commonly asked for drinks then put them onto like business cards and atach them to a ring so i could just flick thru them. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD 10.5yrs DS 6yrs DS 11mths 5 little angles watching from above |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 30 June 2008 at 10:22pm
| come on peanut tell us!!! |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 1:43pm
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I work at zymergy (used to be barfly) by the farmers building.
Thanks for those links noone has actually asked for a cocktail yet but I'm getting all scared thinking about it. It has so many different beers so most people just get beer. There is one tho its like a double dry something something does anyone know what that is? |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 3:09pm
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ooooo i might have to come in and ask for a blue margarita ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com">
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 3:36pm
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Double dry something something?
Well... usually 'double' refers to the amount of alcohol. There is a single shot and a double shot: bars usually serve doubles as standard (unless they are stingy like the first bar I worked at  ). Though you have to remember that the size of our shots is much smaller then the US. Single in NZ is 30mls and double 60mls, while a single in the US is 45mls and double 90mls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_glass#Sizes Dry usually refers to dry ginger ale... as far as I know so could just be a double shot of something with ginger ale.... the far most common alcohol to have with that is brandy. Hope that helps 
You'll pick it up in no time! And definitely always ask... it's better to find out properly than mix up something that the customer gets annoyed about. ETA: I just read the wiki properly and it turns out a US double isn't two singles (which seems stupid to me!) it's actually 75mls. |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 3:39pm
| oh yeah... and you can get dry martinis etc which means using dry white vermouth instead of sweet red vermouth. |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 4:52pm
was going to say 'double dry martini' perhaps.........yum! i love cocktails! ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com">
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 9:54pm
Lol don't you dare (well at least not until I have cocktails sussed lol) I figured out the double/single thing last time totally by accident. I was given a wee measuring cup thing and I didn't realise one end was double and one was single so I made a few double doubles, luckily the customer was stoked and my boss thought it was funny. Most of the time its pretty quiet so its fine but it gets these really busy times so I'm trying to do some homework. Thanks for that Nikki I couldn't figure out what the dry bit was |
jack_&_charli wrote:Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 03 July 2008 at 9:54am
| maybe we should organise a night out, what nights you working rachel? you can practice on us! |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 03 July 2008 at 11:37am
| Lol um its different every week. Either Thurs Fri or Sat tho |