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Bar Craft

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A stemmed glass of deep red wine standing against a plain white background, showing the colour fading toward the rim.Level 2How to Taste Wine Appearance, nose, palate, conclusion: the systematic way professionals taste wine, and the words that make a tasting ... Close-up of a French rose back label reading Cotes de Provence, Appellation d'Origine Protegee, with a printed description of the wine.Level 2Reading the Label ABV and proof, age statements, appellations, 'straight' and 'handmade': which words on a bottle are law and which are... Overhead view of a slate cheese board with brie, hard cheese, grapes and crackers beside a glass of red wine and a wedge of blue cheese.Level 2Food Pairing and Serving Salt, acid and fat soften a tannic red; sweet food makes wine taste harsher. Pairing logic, serving temperatures and ... A row of empty stemmed drinking glasses in different bowl and stem shapes on a glass shelf.Level 2Glassware Why a Martini gets a stem, an Old-Fashioned gets a heavy base, and a whisky nosing glass narrows at the top. The work... Two tulip-shaped whisky nosing glasses holding pale and amber spirit, with a small water jug between them.Level 2How to Taste Spirits Look, nose, sip, wait. The professional method for tasting whisky, rum, tequila or gin, adapted for a glass at 40 per... Two hands gripping a frosted steel cobbler shaker mid-shake, the far end blurred with motion.Level 2Bar Technique Shake or stir, how much ice melts into your drink, why ratios matter, and the tools that do the work: jigger, bar spo... A neat rum in a nosing glass, a Manhattan in a stemmed cocktail glass and an Old Fashioned in a cut-crystal rocks glass on a bar, with bottles out of focus behind.Level 2Cocktail Families Thousands of cocktails, a handful of templates: Old-Fashioned, sour, vermouth drinks, highballs, fizzes, juleps and t... Backlit shelves of liquor bottles behind a dim bar, labels softened out of focus.Level 1 · Start hereBar Craft, Tasting & Labels How drinks are built, tasted, poured and labeled: technique, cocktail families, glassware, tasting method and the law...

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