Why not have these dreams? Many bartender’s do and learning how to bartend at Riverside Bartending Schools is your first stop. Why not create some enduring value to your career, even if you have aspirations of a transient job. Realistically it may not happen they are so many variations of liquors and en even bigger list of drinks and mixes and concoctions but you never know there may be one or more still to be discovered.
It does not necessarily require a true guru of alcohols and liquors to develop new recipes, just knowing how each one tastes and an imagination is all that is needed to brew your own special glass. Customers often ask to have special shots made for them. It is fun and a great way to engage a crowd at the bar to participate in the mixing. This can give the bartender an opportunity to also come up with funny and unusual names for the shots.
To put it in perspective, how many cocktails can you think of which recall the person who invented it? The “Mo Cocktail” is said to be named by Maureen McLaughlin in Boston. Now it happened in the 90’s at some bar she was working at and the “Mo” was actually her nickname. We all know now how that nickname has hit the mainstream with “Mo Money” and “Mo Better Blues”, funny to think it all started with a local gal making a cocktail in a local bar.
Learning how to mix drinks and all the tools necessary to be successful is easily achieved when
you attend a Riverside Bartending School. Some other famous drinks include the “Mai Tai” concocted by Vic Bergeron in his original Oakland Trader Vic’s restaurant. The name, according to Vic means out of this world in the Polynesian dialect of Tahiti. Sadly the restaurants are no longer but the drink remains famous to this day.
So are the drinks chosen by person or place…or both? Take the “Martini” for example, person or place? The larger consensus is that could have been named for the town of Martinez in California. Not proven to be named by anyone in the town, just speculated that someone in some other town sometime in the nineteenth century. Then there’s the “Manhattan” no guess as to where that one came from and also the “Rob Roy” named after a Scottish rebel no-one really knows about.
Those are some of the oldest drinks around in the 80’s “Sex on the Beach” became more famous, not so much as they tasted good, it was just naughty to order them, and more fun in a crowd.
Then a favorite layered shot called a “B52”. The original origin of the drink is uncertain; some speculate it was invented at the Keg Steakhouse in Calgary, Alberta in 1977. That drink was named after a long range bomber used in the Vietnam War. Whatever the drink, whatever the era to truly become a guru, your first stop would be a Riverside Bartending School.