Bartending

[Diane CBPFC]

This is really an "outpourings" topic but I thought it may be my only chance to post in the Saloon Bar.

I am going to be a bartender on December 6 from 5 to 9 as a volunteer for my daughter's dance group.

Anyway, other than the sherry triffle and the toothache whiskey - I don't know much about booze and how much to put in the glasses and what they are called and if they are shaken or stirred etc

I was just wondering if you lot, who seem like experts in the field, could give me a few bartending pointers?

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Dive for cover if a mean-looking three-legged dog enters the bar saying "Ah've come f'r the man who shot ma paw."

[Malc]

clears throat
Well, haven't YOU come to the right place!

Basically, as someone who has done a bit of bar work in his time (both sides), I have to ask a couple of questions:

Will there be draught beer and optics, in other words is it a "real" bar (do you pull a lever to dispense the beer and do the bottles of spirits hang upside down on the wall behind you?)

Or is it a volunteer-type "can" bar, where all the beer is in cans in a fridge?

[Diane CBPFC]

It is the cans in a fridge type bar - I only need to go in 15 minutes before my turn so it can't be too hard. I just don't want to look bad if someone asks for a fancy drink. I imagine most people will want beers or wine as it is a supper and party.

The trouble with all the activities that my kids are in is that you have to do a lot of volunteer work. I worked a casino for the swim club and they want to host a swim meet in our town next spring, and moving shopping carts of groceries from the old co-op to the new one for the ice skating club for five hours on a Sunday, I am baking for the dance club, selling raffle tickets for the ice skate club, decorating a christmas tree for the ice skate club and now serving at the bar for the dance club.

It is only the karate and soccer people that give me any peace.

[The Peepmaster]

Golly, Diane - how do you find time to grace this board with your presence?

I've worked in a few bars over the years. Mainly in my student days, I hasten to add. I reckon I could do it again now easily enough. It'd be a bit like riding a bike, I imagine. In MY day, you didn't have tills that added up for you. You had to do it in your head. I was a bar steward for quite a few years.

[Roger Kettle]

Surely even Mince wouldn't step in on that one.

[Diane CBPFC]

Since it will mostly be beer in cans...I could say would you like it shaken or stirred or would you just like me to pass you the damn can?

I just want people to know that I could do more if called on to do so.

[Vulture]

Surely even Mince wouldn't step in on that one.

He doesn't need to: Peeps has said it all!

[Vulture]

Since it will mostly be beer in cans...I could say would you like it shaken or stirred or would you just like me to pass you the damn can?

I just want people to know that I could do more if called on to do so.

It does seem a bit of a waste you asking this lot when I have a publican daughter a few thousand miles down the road in Toronto! Do you want me to ask her if it's OK for me to give her email address to you?

[Diane CBPFC]

At this point I don't care if I get fired from that volunteer post because I know I will excell at pushing the carts of groceries from the old shop to the new one and can reedeem my reputation then. 

[Malc]

Just wear a low cut blouse, giggle and say "I've never done this before". You'll be fine.

[Diane CBPFC]

That may work for someone like Mince - but my boobies are not that perky.

[Vulture]

That may work for someone like Mince - but my boobies are not that perky.

 

[The Peepmaster]

That may work for someone like Mince - but my boobies are not that perky.

I don't think wearing a low cut blouse would help someone with the smoulderingly good looks of a scallop.

[Fyodor]

That may work for someone like Mince - but my boobies are not that perky.

I don't think wearing a low cut blouse would help someone with the smoulderingly good looks of a scallop.

Stop it this minute Peepo; I'm only flesh and blood.