Cocktail Course
Learn how to make the perfect cocktail
The AHA, in conjunction with leading Mixologist Adam Keane, presents an intensive and personalised cocktail course designed to ensure your venue and staff are creating the best cocktails.
The topics covered can include:
- Where do cocktails fit into a bar and why sell cocktails?
- Brief history of cocktails
- Breaking down the basics of how to make cocktails
- Introduction to spirits and liqueurs
- Methods of cocktail mixology
- Suggestive selling and product knowledge
- New and contemporary cocktail mixology
- Organising a cocktail station
- Creating your own cocktail
- Tips on designing a simple cocktail list
- New trends in cocktails today
- Costing and pricing strategies
Adam Keane has a number of career highlights to his name including
- 7th Place at the 2005 IBA World Fancy Drink Cocktail Competition in Helsinki, Finland
- Winner of the National IBA Fancy Drink Cocktail Competition 2005 in Sydney
- 4th Place in the 2005 IBA Asia Pacific Bartender of the Year Cocktail Competition in Singapore
- Nominated for the Australian Liquor Industry Awards Bartender of the Year 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2005
- Winner of the 2002 WA & National Suntory Cup Cocktail Competition
- Suntory Cocktail Barperson of the Year 2002
- Certificate of Merit for the Australian Hotels Association’s 2003 Bar Service Employee Award
- 2nd place in the Shin Lu Chu International Cocktail Competition 1998 Tokyo Japan
“The AHA Cocktail Training Course was delivered in a way that made sense and appealed to our team. Presented with knowledge, passion and understanding which means we walked away with a lot more confidence and skill to make the best cocktails...so much so that we are rewriting our entire cocktail menu!"
Phil Gallagher, Ess Bar Subiaco
$129 AHA Members
$159 Non AHA Members
9.30am - 4.30pm (approx)
