Barmasters Bartending School

Specialties

Our Curriculum consists of over 300 drink recipes in which our certified mixologist instructors prepare 75+ in front of you. Your class time will be split between actual behind the bar mixing and classroom instruction. We love to have fun, so feel free to mingle, laugh with, and meet new people with the same goal as you! We also cover seeking employment in our ever changing industry, proper customer service, as well as tips and tricks for increasing your income.

Never made a Long Island Iced Tea? Never heard of a Mai Tai? That’s okay! Our class is 40 hours of making sure you know the difference between shake and blend, the difference between liqueur and liquor, as well as how to properly make a Martini. You will learn over 30 different cordials and much much more! Once you graduate, you’ll be a certified Mixologist ready for your next lucrative part time job, entertaining your next party, or your brand new full time profession!

We have three fully stocked bars for you to make as many shooters, shots, mixed drinks, and cocktails as you would like! We offer real hands on training with certified bartenders/​instructors. Employers prefer people who have completed reliable hands on training vs. a makeshift online school certification. Let us WOW you by attending a free class just to see how professional we are!

History

Established in 1992.

BarMasters Bartending School of Virginia Beach was first establihed in 1992 by Dennis and Linda McCloskey. They created a bartending program to answer the demand for professionally trained bartenders. Their vision was to provide the bartending education, speed, organizational skills, as well as customer service and alcohol awareness to a whole new generation of Mixologists. To introduce our students to a new era of pride and respect for the traditions of the past while driving ever forward into a demanding future. We carry on that pride and tradition today!