Essential Bartender Interview Questions & Answers:

1. How to make a dirty martini?

2 counts dry vermouth, 6 counts vodka or gin (customer call) shaken, strained add olive juice and garnish with an olive.

2. How to make a Cosmopolitan Martini?

1/2 oz. of cointreau orange liquer1/2 oz. of vodka1/2 of freshly squeezed limea splash of cranberry juicepour all ingredients in mixing glass half filled with ice, shake and strain in chilled martini glass

3. How to make a Johnny Vegas drink?

1/2oz tequila, 1/2 oz watermelon schnapps, 1/2oz red bull, mixed in shot glass.

4. How to make an Irish Car Bomb?

Pour half a shot of Irish creme liqueur into a shot class and pour another half a shot of Irish whiskey on top of the creme liqueur. Pour 3/4 of Guinness into a glass and let settle. drop the shot glass into the the Guinness and chug

5. Tell me what's Your Favourite Drink?

An Old Fashioned with Booker's Bourbon. The overproof strength of Booker's really lets the Bourbon stand out, even after the sugar and bitters are added.

6. How to make a Whiskey Sour?

1 1/2 oz american whiskey, (bourbon or rye), 3/4 oz each lemon and simple syrup. Add slightly less than 1/4 oz egg white and dry shake in a boston tin. Add ice and shake again. Strain over ice into a rocks glass, garnish with a lemon wedge and straw

7. Tell me how you properly stir a cocktail?

Well in a mixing glass, use bar spoon inserted into the ice then swisel the twisted staff between fingers gently to rotate the base. In a mixed drink, rum and coke example, pour rum then mixer, add swisel stick or stir straw and swirl one rotation around the glass.

8. Tell me how do you garnish a Manhattan?

Putting zest of it let the oil all around the rim then twist put it in the middle.

9. Tell us besides making drinks, what roles do you think bartenders serve?

Advisor, tour guide, menu consultant, entertainer, armchair therapist, dear abby, cheerleader, mother/father that cares enough to stop the fun to ensure your safety. even if you hate us for it. To cover just a few of the hats a bartender wears.

10. Tell me do you have any flaring techniques?

Yes I have a giant shaker that I pull out whenever I have big groups in the bar and I use it when they order shot so I can get other groups to order a group shot.