Mixes keep life interesting, from mixtapes from a crush, to mixed nuts, to mix-and-match pairs of shoes necessitated by hungry golden retrievers. Meet your mix métier with today’s Groupon to ABC Bartending School in Tempe. Choose between the following options:
- For $65, you get a 4-hour recreational-bartending workshop (a $129 value).
- For $199, you get a 40-hour professional-bartending course (a $399 value).
ABC Bartending School's experienced drink slingers lead professional and recreational [bartending workshops and courses](http://abcbartending.com/bartending_course.htm) in classrooms equipped with fully operational beverage bodegas. Hobbyist brew mixers can boost party-hosting prowess with a four-hour recreational-bartending workshop, which covers the recipes for several provocative potables. The workshop also touches on alcoholic-beverage laws and how to impress partygoers with flashy behind-the-bar moves. During the 40-hour professional-bartending course, which takes place over the span of one to three weeks, aspiring mixologists become familiar with bar equipment such as soda guns, blenders, and speed racks, and learn tips for proper bar setup. After gaining tool know-how, students take a crash course on how to mix and pour more than 100 popular cocktails, delving into the different types of liquor and learning how to detect the difference between a vodka cranberry and a vodka vodka. Pupils will also soak up important facts regarding alcoholic-beverage laws, bar opening and closing procedures, and methods for handling and managing monetary transactions. ABC's instructors prep protégés with job-hunting strategies, such as how to prepare a resumé, and all grads of the course enjoy membership to ABC schools nationwide and access to job-placement services.
ABC Bartending School
Taught behind fully functional bars, ABC Bartending School courses educate students in topics ranging from drink recipes and equipment setup to flair moves and alcohol awareness. The school also emphasizes employment; after graduation, students can take advantage of a nationwide job placement service to land gigs in Miami nightclubs, Las Vegas casinos, Scottsdale resorts, or the bar cars of Chicago's El trains.