Pappy Takes a Bartending Course - Tiki Drinks and Food

P pappythesailor Tiki Socialite Mass. Joined: Jul 07, 2005 Posts: 1564	P pappythesailor Posted posted on Tue, Oct 24, 2006 6:56 PM WEEK 5: (ugh.) D'jever sit through one of those "artsy" movies? (Like 'Big Night' or "The Station Agent'.) All the critics like it so you sit and sit and you're not having a good time. And you keep thinking that something amazing will happen before it ends to make it all worthwhile? Then it just ends. And you want your two hours (and maybe your four bucks) back. I kept fantasizing about just walking out of class tonight. Why don't I? First hour: Quiz on our fifty drinks. Then, you guessed it, he went over the whole test again making in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th time he's dictated the 20, 20 and 10 drinks to us while we sat there like numb dummies. Somebody complained about the class. (It was like I was channeling through her except she wouldn't stab him with a pen.) I learned somebody else quit after week two. ("Quitter!") There was a half hour of questions, each of which broke down into U.B.R. (Unfocused Bartender Ramblings). After the break, he brought in a box and showed us a highball, rocks, cocktail and a shaker. Then he passed a bottle of bitters around so we could smell it. Then he made us an invisible Old Fashioned (ingredients: glass, bar spoon). Then he gave us the same exact glass lecture from Week 2 (most everything goes in a highball glass and there's no such thing as a sour glass--that whole mess). He fielded some questions. More U.B.R. Then we went over what glass went with all fifty drinks. No, we never stood up or touched any bar equipment but some actually made it into class today. I've got a really good feeling about week 6!

WEEK 5: (ugh.)

D'jever sit through one of those "artsy" movies? (Like 'Big Night' or "The Station Agent'.) All the critics like it so you sit and sit and you're not having a good time. And you keep thinking that something amazing will happen before it ends to make it all worthwhile? Then it just ends. And you want your two hours (and maybe your four bucks) back. I kept fantasizing about just walking out of class tonight. Why don't I?

First hour: Quiz on our fifty drinks. Then, you guessed it, he went over the whole test again making in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th time he's dictated the 20, 20 and 10 drinks to us while we sat there like numb dummies.

Somebody complained about the class. (It was like I was channeling through her except she wouldn't stab him with a pen.) I learned somebody else quit after week two. ("Quitter!") There was a half hour of questions, each of which broke down into U.B.R. (Unfocused Bartender Ramblings).

After the break, he brought in a box and showed us a highball, rocks, cocktail and a shaker. Then he passed a bottle of bitters around so we could smell it. Then he made us an invisible Old Fashioned (ingredients: glass, bar spoon). Then he gave us the same exact glass lecture from Week 2 (most everything goes in a highball glass
and there's no such thing as a sour glass--that whole mess).

He fielded some questions. More U.B.R. Then we went over what glass went with all fifty drinks. No, we never stood up or touched any bar equipment but some actually made it into class today. I've got a really good feeling about week 6!

Post #262591 by pappythesailor on Tue, Oct 24, 2006 6:56 PM