Thirst Bar Academy (TBA) is a training and consulting institution based in Johannesburg, with additional training facilities in both Cape Town, and Durban.
Founded in 2005, Thirst has since its inception trained well over 20 000 bartenders in South Africa and a multiple of other countries on the continent. We have a large database of professionally trained multilingual bar trainers necessary for the large and diverse African market.
Thirst Bar Academy has a wide variety of courses available to the public. From short courses that teach you everything you need to know to start working a shift behind the bar of your local watering hole, to more intricate curriculums for more experienced bartenders that are ready to take on the international bar scene. Our courses have all been designed by in-house professionals with many years of international experience.
Thirst Flagship Bartender Course
Pre-Requisite: None
Qualification: Bartender
Cost: R7 000 pp
Duration: 5 days (9am – 4pm)
An intensive course designed to give bartenders the necessary skills to work a bar under a fair amount of pressure whilst making cocktails.
The course will run from Monday to Friday. Pass Certificates will be issued at the end of the course with the following pass criteria:
- Theory test completed with a minimum of 90% achieved.
- Practical free pouring test has been completed with a minimum of 90% achieved.
- Cocktail practical test has been passed with a minimum 90% achieved.
If the student does not pass all the criteria above we can either issue a certificate of attendance or the student can come back and complete the tests until passed.
Course material covers the following. Booklets with all course info are included in the price.
Module 1 – The Bartender The Bar
Module 2 – Tools of the trade
Module 3 – Pouring, Responsibility & Glassware
Module 4 – The Customer & Service
Module 5 – The Product
Module 6 – Practical Cocktail Making
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