Showing posts with label Bar Knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bar Knowledge. Show all posts

Brandy

Brandy comes from the Dutch word Brandeis, which means, “Burnt wine”. Distillation was referred to by them as ‘burning’ process.
Grape brandy is a mixture of distillates obtained from the fermented juice or mash of grapes. There are brandies from other fruits as well such as peach, apricot and apple.
Brandies are aged in oak casks for a minimum of tow years while the usual aging period is from three to eight years.

Beer

Beer is a potable alcoholic beverage fermented from cereals and malt, flavored with hops. The alcoholic content is between 3% to 5% and is known to be a very refreshing drink especially in summer.


Raw Materials in the Making of Beer

Barley

Barley is preferred to other cereals as it can be more easily malted for brewing and the soluble extracted from barley malt are more complete than those of other grains.

How to Open a bottle of Red Wine

How to Open a bottle of Red Wine

  1. To show the guest the bottle by resting the bottle on your right hand long ways, making sure that the label is facing outwards
  1. To place the bottle on wine on the basket on the table facing the guest. Making sure that the label is always facing the guest

NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE

NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE

It is essential to know a little about non alcoholic beverages which are classified into three categories:
1-Stimulating beverage:   Tea: the origins of tea are from china, but an Indian company took it over  From the seventeenth century and it started to be very popular in the world

Bartender Manual Cocktail -basics

What is a Cocktail?



Drinks akin to cocktails first appeared sometime during the 16th century, but cocktails, as we know and use the term, was first introduced by American bartenders in the Arieses.
The reason the cocktail made it big in the happy 'Essie, was the prohibition, when producing and imbibing of alcohol was made illegal. As good as all spirits available was of a rather