Harvard Bartending Course

Cambridge, United States

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+1 617-495-9657
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bar.hsa.net
Address:
67 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Harvard Square
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
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740 ftMt Auburn St @ DeWolfe St
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Today 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Local time (Cambridge) 12:54 Friday, 29 November 2024

Business hours

Monday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tuesday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday –
Sunday –

Description

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Don’t waste your time and money with lengthy, expensive courses that simply have you memorize recipes. The Harvard Bartending Course will equip you with a TIPS certification and teach you the skills to mix any drink imaginable. We provide you with all the knowledge you need to be a certified and successful bartender in one day for only $ 289.

Our course will educate you on both aspects of being a successful bartender. The first half of the course consists of Training in Intervention Procedures by Servers of Alcohol (TIPS) which is a nationwide certification program that teaches the responsible serving of alcohol. This training is required for employment as a bartender. The second portion of the course focuses on Mixology – the skills of drink mixing and tending bar that you will need to succeed in the field.

History

Established in 1972.

The course was designed as a launching pad to provide job opportunities for enterprising Harvard students. Since then, we have had around 40,000 graduates from the course, all of whom have been highly successful, in securing bartending jobs both in Boston and around the country immediately upon graduation.

Meet the Manager

Arman H.

Manager

Arman is a sophomore at Harvard from Philadelphia, PA who is pursuing coursework in economics, statistics, and computer science. He has been with Harvard Student Agencies, the overseer of the Harvard Bartending Course & Bartending Services, since September of his freshman year. When not working in the office, he enjoys relaxing and watching TV.

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2 reviews of Harvard Bartending Course

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Place rating: 4
New York, NY
As I understand it, daily deals run on the regular for Harvard Bartending Course’s full-​day class. At a discount, this is a solid value for two very specific types of people:
1. You intend on becoming a bartender. To be clear, I am explicitly excluding what some people call «mixologists» (where that term isn’t yet passé). I mean, you’ll be armed with the fundamental knowledge and skills to serve booze. Mostly to patrons who couldn’t tell you (and probably don’t care about) the difference between a daiquiri and a mai tai.
2. You’re looking for a fun social activity to do. This could be with a significant other as a date, or with a group of friends that are interested in expanding their drink knowledge beyond Bud Light and Irish Car Bombs. Plus, you get the added bonus of becoming TIPS certified in case you decide to pursue a profession in bartending.
The morning TIPS course is, by nature, somewhat dry and technical. Our instructor did a fine job with offering enough participant engagement and real-​world anecdotes to spice things up. There’s really only so much you can do to make a video-​led instruction fun.
For the «mixology» portion of the day, you’ll actually get some hands-​on application with speed pours and you’ll experience what it’s like to get behind a bar. You’ll learn some information (or misinformation, in some cases) about alcohol products and their history. And finally, you’ll get to practice slinging a number of classic cocktails. And by «classic cocktails» I mean «colored water mixtures at the same proportions that classic cocktails would be.» That’s right, folks. You will touch zero real booze products during your class here. Caveat emptor.
All in all, it’s a day of socializing and gabbing about drinking. And anyone who’s against either of those activities is straight-​up unpatriotic in my book.
Place rating: 3
New York, NY
took the mixology portion of this class on 1÷30÷10, thought it was okay. i had read the harvard bartending book (bought from ebay for $ 4) beforehand, and the course really didn’t teach me that much more. if you really want to learn about bartending, don’t take this class because you can just learn it on your own, and learn it better. but if you’re not that ambitious and wanna just learn whatever and get a certificate, i guess take the class. i was not a huge fan of the professor though… he’s good at remembering names (and drinks, i assume), but very repetitive and somewhat full of himself.