Pre

Knowledge
Pack
European Bartender School
 During your course
you will encounter a
multitude of challenges
as you are educated in
the craft of professional
bartending.
 EUROPEAN BARTENDER SCHOOL
PRE KNOWLEDGE PACK

DEAR EBS STUDENT

Welcome to European Bartender School!

Over the coming weeks you will go through an extraordinary

level of personal and professional development, where
you will transform into a cocktail bartender with world-
class skills. To make sure you feel comfortable from day
one, we created this pre-knowledge pack so you can focus
on the important stuff - like getting to know your fellow
students and checking out the local nightlife!

In this package, you will find a preview of some of the

tasks you will be given during the first few days of your
EBS course. Some of the typical EBS-concepts will also
be explained. So do yourself a favour and take the time to
study this package carefully before starting the course. This
way you will have a solid foundation to start from, enabling
you to develop your skills and broaden your knowledge in
the most efficient way possible.

Good luck, and enjoy the fantastic weeks ahead!

The EBS Team

5 STEPS &
10 SECONDS
Preparing amazing cocktails involves a lot more than randomly
combining a range of ingredients. The perfect cocktail must achieve
balance and harmony between flavours, the correct temperature
and consistency and be a delight to the eye.

The cocktail recipes in the Even though the recipes might

EBS handbook will be covered seem complicated at first, we
both in written exams and at break each one down in 5 simple
the bar training stations, so steps, which makes it easy to
learning them is a good first step. remember every component,
Remember, you can’t bake a every time.
cake (or make a cocktail) without
a recipe! Your International Using this 5-step process,
bartender course combines you will be able to memorise
a theoretical education with complete recipes easily. In less
a lot of practical training to than 10 seconds, you will be able
make sure you gradually learn to recite all 5 components. And
to make dozens of classic and once you can do that with all the
contemporary cocktails in an recipes in the EBS handbook,
efficient way. you will be ready to focus on
your prac tical skills like speed,
As a bartender, you don’t just flair-and, of course, making new
need to know recipes; you will friends at EBS.
also need to be able to prepare
them for customers – Quickly!
Don’t worry – it’s not as difficult
as it sounds.
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PRE KNOWLEDGE PACK

1 GLASS
Let’s take a look at a 5-step
recipe, using Gin & Tonic as a
classic example. The recipe on
2 ICE
the sample page below is listed in
order, starting from the top. Once
all five steps are completed, your
3 METHOD
cocktail is ready to be served.

4 INGREDIENTS
5 GARNISH
GIN & TONIC
GL ASS: Highball METHOD: Build
ICE: Cubed
INGREDIENTS: TASTING NOTES:
Gin 40 1 ffft
Tonic --------- Fill --- ------

GARNISH: Lime Wedge

OPTIONAL: oV dka & oT nic : Replace Gin with Vodka
1 GLASS 4 INGREDIENTS
Different cocktails require different Once our glass, ice and method are
glasses. The first step in preparing clear, we look at the ingredients.
a cocktail is determining which As can be seen in the above
style of glass is to be used, as it is recipe, the product description
the first thing we reach for when and international measurements
an order is placed. In the example are listed. Following recipes to
above, the ‘Highball’ is mentioned the T is essential, with specified
as your first step. ingredients - spirits, liqueurs,
juices, mixers, etc. - poured
accurately, with nothing forgotten
(or substituted). If ‘Fill’ is listed as
2 ICE a measurement, it simply means
After we select our glass, we need to fill the glass to an appropriate
to know what kind of ice to use. level, leaving a ‘spillway’ at the top
The recipe above calls for ‘Cubed’, of the glass (as can be seen in the
meaning normal ice cubes. above photo).
Different cocktails call for different
types of ice, but cubed ice is the
most commonly used variety in a
bar environment.
5 GARNISH
Once our cocktail has been
prepared and poured, the only
3 METHOD thing that remains is garnish.
After determining glass and ice, Garnishing a cocktail serves
we look at how we will mix our two purposes – to enhance or
ingredients. The above recipe complement the flavour and
mentions ‘Build’, which is the aroma of the drink, and to add
most basic method of preparing some visual appeal. While it may
cocktails. It simply means pouring seem like a detail, the garnish
all ingredients over the ice. is often a crucial important
component of the cocktail
experience. The above example
calls for a ‘Lime Wedge’ - a simple,
classic garnish that works well
with both gin and tonic water.
EBS 5 & 10 RULE RECAP
A cocktail recipe can be broken down into 5 steps – Glass, Ice,
Method, Ingredients, Garnish. Memorise each of these steps (also
use the pictures in the EBS handbook as visual cues, they are very
helpful!) so that you can recite the recipe within 10 seconds. Getting
the recipes memorised is a great way to prepare yourself for the bar
stations and acing your final exams.

We would recite the recipe for a Gin & Tonic as follows:

· Highball glass with cubed ice.

· Build
· 40ml or 1 ½ Oz gin
· Fill with tonic water
· Lime wedge garnish

Try saying it out loud and time yourself.

10 seconds is a pretty long time, huh?

At EBS, we want your training to go as smoothly as possible (and we

figure you probably do too!). A little studying ahead of time goes a
long way, and will allow you to find a perfect balance of learning and
leisure throughout your course with EBS.

In the following destinations you will find different measurements.

Make sure that you are studying the correct measurements for your
specific EBS destination:

"ML"
- Stockholm - Phuket - Amsterdam
- Copenhagen - Goa - Chile
- Cape Town - Vienna - London
- Barcelona - Bad Gastein - Rome
- Berlin - Sydney - Milan
- Paris - Mallorca
- Kos - Madrid

"OZ"
- New York - Mexico City
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PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE
VODKA
Flavourless and colourless, vodka is a typically neutral grain spirit
however potato distillates are also used. Diluted with water to around
40% ABV, Vodka originates from Poland and Russia, and is the most
widely consumed spirit on the planet today.

GIN
Based on un-aged neutral grain spirit and flavoured predominantly
with juniper berries, supported by a range of other aromatics (known as
‘botanicals’). A gin will often include angelica root, coriander, liquorice
and citrus peel.

WHITE RUM
The lightest flavoured, driest variety of rum. The best-known white
rums (Bacardi, Havana Club) are “Cuban style”, though there are many
regional varieties. Though generally aged in timber, white rum is most
often filtered prior to bottling to make it colourless.

TEQUILA
It is widely believed that Tequila is made from the cactus, which is a
pure misconception. Tequila is made from a specific kind of the plant-
family agavacea or agave. The plant is more closely related to the plant-
family of lilies, and has nothing to do with cacti. There are more than 200
different varieties of agave in Mexico, but only the “Agave Azul Tequilana
Weber” is used for the production of Tequila.

BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY

Blended Scotch whisky is a mix of (expensive, richly flavoured) single
malt whiskies and (inexpensive, lightly flavoured) grain whiskies. Malted
barley - which is used to make malt whisky - is often dried over burning
peat moss, adding a distinctive smoky note to the finished spirit.
DRAMBUIE
A Scotch whisky-based herbal liqueur flavoured with heather, herbs and
golden honey from the Scottish Highlands.

FRESH LIME JUICE

Lime juice squeezed freshly by hand or citrus press. Citrus juice oxidises
rapidly which changes the flavour, so remember that fresher is always
better!

ORANGE JUICE
Orange juice – either freshly squeezed or bottled – should be pulp-free for
use in cocktails.

COCA-COLA
The world’s biggest selling soft drink, Coca-Cola is flavoured with a
remarkably complex blend of extracts including nutmeg, orange,
cinnamon, vanilla, lavender and other spices.

TONIC WATER (INDIAN TONIC WATER)

A carbonated mixer with a bitter-sweet flavour. Tonic water was created
around the 1820s when British officers in the Indian Army improved their
bitter anti-malaria medicine — Peruvian quinine extract — by mixing it
with soda water, sugar, and gin.

KAHLUA
A rum-based Mexican coffee-liqueur flavoured with vanilla, caramel and
Arabica coffee beans.

MILK / HALF & HALF

For the purpose of making cocktails, whole milk is preferred. Half & half is
a mix of equal parts whole milk and heavy cream.

GRENADINE
A strong red syrup made from red currants and pomegranates. It is a useful
ingredient for many cocktails - acting as both a colouring and sweetener.
MIXOLOGY
COURSE (2 DAYS)
Check if your EBS destination The final and most exciting part
hosts one of our extraordinary of the course is the hands-on
2-Day Mixology courses. It is a training. You will put all of your
fantastic opportunity for existing knowledge into practice by
bartenders and EBS graduates to crafting cocktails using cordials,
understand the science behind syrups, shrubs and cocktail foams.
making perfect cocktails. You’ll After the 2-Day Mixology, you will
vastly enhance your overall have a brand new outlook on
bartending knowledge and add your profession and will be able
that all-important extra certificate to wow your customers with your
to your CV! extensive mixology knowledge
and skills.
You will learn about the origins
of bartending and mixology; and
how they spread to the rest of
the world. You will learn about
the old classic drink categories
and incidents that changed
the bartending world like the
prohibition era. You will move
through time, from the past to the
present, as you will study some
of the newest products and most
creative techniques in use today.
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ESSENTIALS OF
BARTENDING
ONLINE COURSE
 MASTER THE BUILDING
BLOCKS OF BARTENDING IN
YOUR OWN TIME, AT YOUR OWN PACE.

At EBS we truly believe nothing can replace practical training from a

professional mentor but we also love to give our students as many ways
to succeed as possible and we know a lot of you love to come prepared!
That’s why we’re giving you a taster of our online course for free, we’ve
chosen a few videos and workbooks that will give all of you an insight
into the world of cocktails and prepare you for the practical stuff ahead.

The Essentials of Bartending includes 34 lessons in total, many of which

will directly relate to stuff you’ll learn in your upcoming bartender course,
some will be extra but all will be valuable!

You don’t have to take the online course to do the international

bartender course but we know how many of you want to prepare, this
one’s for the preppers!

You should check out the five free videos we’re giving you, you’ll find the
link in your student account and welcome email.

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