Bartenders make $90K+ a year. Here's how to become one.
Go from complete beginner to confident bartender with step-by-step training built from real bar experience. Learn the tools, techniques, spirits, and cocktails you need to build a strong foundation.
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Lifetime access. Certificate included. 14-day money-back guarantee.
Learning Bartending the Wrong Way Can Set You Back
When you’re just starting, you don’t know what’s right or wrong. Learn from the wrong course, bartender, or bar, and bad habits can quickly become your “normal.”
BAD INFORMATION
Not Everything You Learn Is Correct
There’s a lot of bartending advice online, but not all of it comes from real bar experience. If you learn the wrong technique first, you may believe it’s the professional way to work.
BAD HABITS
Bad Habits Are Hard to Unlearn
Poor pouring, inefficient movement, bad technique, and incorrect bar habits become harder to fix the longer you repeat them. Starting correctly is much easier than relearning everything later.
REAL BAR KNOWLEDGE
Knowing Recipes Isn’t Enough
One of the biggest reasons I turn down bartenders is incorrect knowledge paired with confidence that they’re doing it right. A professional bartender needs to understand why something is right, what’s wrong, and how a real bar actually operates.
Learn the right way from day one and build skills that work behind a real bar.
Your 4-Stage Path From Beginner to Professional
Stage 1
Home Bartender
Built for complete beginners. Learn the tools, spirits, techniques, and essential cocktails step by step.
Stage 2
Professional Bartender
For anyone who wants to work as a bartender. Learn real bar skills, speed, service, and the tricks that help you get hired.
Stage 3
Bar Manager
Learn how to run a bar, design cocktail menus, manage inventory, train staff, control costs, and lead a team.
Stage 4
Bar Owner
Learn how to operate the entire bar business, including licenses, POS systems, hiring, vendors, finances, margins, and daily operations.
Each stage builds on the one before it. Follow all 4 stages in order, complete the lessons, pass each module quiz, and progress step by step from beginner to professional.
What You’ll Learn in Each Stage
Each stage is broken into step-by-step modules. Each module includes 12–15 lessons and ends with a 20-question quiz you must pass before moving forward.
As you progress, you’ll build real bartending knowledge and skills step by step.
Here's what done looks like: finish all 15 modules, pass the Bartending Foundations quiz, get your certificate.
Everything in one place
How the Academy stacks up
Side by side with a local in-person bartending school
Complete the Course. Earn Your Certificate.
Finish all 4 stages and complete every module in the Bartender Academy to earn a verified certificate of completion you can share with employers or add to your resume.
See what's inside FoundationsA professional certificate you can add to your resume or share with employers.
Three ways to join
One payment. Lifetime access. 14-day money-back guarantee.
Hobby
Make great drinks at home
- Stage 1, Home Bartender
- Step-by-step video lessons
- Printable cheat sheets
- The 246-recipe cocktail book, digital
- Quiz and Stage 1 certificate
- Stage 2, Professional Bartender
- Speed, service and real bar habits
- Professional certificate with a verification link
- Stages 3 and 4: Bar Manager and Bar Owner
- Custom cocktail menu for your bar
- Cost and price sheet for every drink
- Bar Profit Check by Atanas
- Bartender level seats for your staff
- Video calls with Atanas
One-time payment. Lifetime access.
Bartender
Work behind a real bar
- Stage 1, Home Bartender
- Step-by-step video lessons
- Printable cheat sheets
- The 246-recipe cocktail book, digital
- Quiz and Stage 1 certificate
- Stage 2, Professional Bartender
- Speed, service and real bar habits
- Professional certificate with a verification link
- Stages 3 and 4: Bar Manager and Bar Owner
- Custom cocktail menu for your bar
- Cost and price sheet for every drink
- Bar Profit Check by Atanas
- Bartender level seats for your staff
- Video calls with Atanas
Stage 2 lessons are being added. Lifetime access.
Restaurant
Run a profitable bar
- Stage 1, Home Bartender
- Step-by-step video lessons
- Printable cheat sheets
- The 246-recipe cocktail book, digital
- Quiz and Stage 1 certificate
- Stage 2, Professional Bartender
- Speed, service and real bar habits
- Professional certificate with a verification link
- Stages 3 and 4: Bar Manager and Bar Owner
- Custom cocktail menu for your bar
- Cost and price sheet for every drink
- Bar Profit Check by Atanas
- Bartender level seats for your staff
- Video calls with Atanas
Limited spots each month
The Restaurant level, how it works
Tell us about your bar. If it is a fit, we send you a payment link.
- ApplyFill in the short form below.
- Send your numbersMenu, prices, last month's orders and the staff schedule.
- Profit CheckAtanas finds the biggest money leaks and builds your new menu.
- Fix planYou get the plan, the cost sheets and staff training.
- 30-day checkWe look at the numbers again together.
Quick answers
Is this for total beginners?
Yes. Foundations assumes zero experience and starts from the basics: tools, spirits, and technique.
How long does it take?
Self-paced. Go through it in a weekend or spread it over a month, it's yours whenever you want it.
Is it live or self-paced?
Self-paced video lessons you can rewatch anytime.
What's your refund policy?
14 days, no questions asked. Email shop@everydaycocktail.com.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes, after finishing the module and passing the quiz, with a real verification link.
What happens when new stages launch?
You'll get early access and keep your founding price for Stage 2 when it's ready.
Learn from someone who actually runs a bar
Real bars. Real shifts. Real experience.
Atanas
Founder of Everyday Cocktail · Bar program manager · Working bartender
I've spent over 12 years behind the bar, and I've interviewed more than 500 bartenders to figure out what actually separates the ones who are good from the ones who just show up. I run the bar program at a high-volume bar that does thousands of guests a week and moves through 8,000 to 10,000 cocktails at peak, and I've overseen close to $3M a year in alcohol sales.
And I'm still behind the bar every single week. Everything in this Academy comes from current, real shifts, not recycled theory from someone who stopped bartending years ago. I built it to hand you what took me a decade to figure out, in the order a real bar would teach you.
"I'm not asking you to take my word for it. That's my real background, you're welcome to check it."
These are the cocktails I make
Seasonal drinks from my own bar, the ones that took off online.
Every cocktail here has passed 2 million views.
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