BARTENDER COURSE

Once you successfully pass the final exam of your chosen bartender course, you’ll receive a Recognized Certificate that validates your skills and marks the beginning of your career in the world of mixology and/or coffee.

By then, you’ll have studied recipes and concepts previously unknown to you, gained extensive hands-on practice, and refined your technique—transforming yourself into a true professional, finally ready to step into the job market in Italy or abroad.

Whether you decide to stay in the ‘Bel Paese’ or embark on a work adventure in England, Spain, France, Germany, the United States, Dubai, or Australia, you’ll have countless opportunities for success and the chance to fall in love with this profession even more—alongside the guests lucky enough to enjoy your creations.

All of this will be possible thanks to the professional training path you completed during the recognized bartender course and the Certificate of Achievement issued by MIXOLOGY Academy, an institution internationally certified under ISO9001:2015 standards and Accredited by the Regional Authorities.

Everyone who attends and completes our programs receives an Official MIXOLOGY Academy Certificate

Every time in life you’ve had to learn something new, at the beginning it probably felt harder than expected.

If you’ve already got your driver’s license, think back to your first practical lessons and how difficult it was to coordinate the clutch, gas, and brake pedals together with the gear shift. But after trying over and over again, the process became almost automatic — and today you can drive a car while talking to someone next to you or even on the phone (although you really shouldn’t! 😉).

If you play a sport or have any hobby that requires learning, you’ll have noticed that, with time and practice, everything gets easier. The journey to becoming a professional behind the bar is exactly the same.

Becoming a professional bartender or a skilled barista ready to start working is anything but simple.

On the contrary, already during the very first lesson (whether live or online) of any of our professional courses, you’ll realize how many things you’ll need to learn before you can feel confident — and competent — during a busy night behind the bar.

To become truly comfortable behind the counter, you can choose between two paths:

Start working right away, applying what you learned in class “as best you can,” but likely forgetting most of the things you only saw, heard, or practiced once;

Train and perfect yourself as much as possible, both on cocktail recipes and practical techniques, in class, at home, and during work simulations or internships.

That’s why MIXOLOGY Academy is a true Academy: training here doesn’t stop after a few hours, days, or weeks. Each student has the opportunity to refine techniques, practice, and retake the courses they’ve attended for 12 months or more.

To make this possible, you’ll need your own dedicated workstation whenever you attend live lessons or train at the Academy — perhaps while simulating a ticket that requires you to serve 8 or more cocktails as quickly as possible — and you’ll need SPACE.

Only during coffee practice will you rotate on the espresso machines with your classmates. And that’s intentional: in this case, each Trainer can visually monitor and assist a maximum of 2 students at the same time while they prepare multiple coffees and cappuccinos in “coffee speed working,” the art of producing several daytime bar drinks at once.

Since its foundation, MIXOLOGY Academy has focused its teaching on practice — and over time, several schools have tried (unsuccessfully) to copy us by offering to let dissatisfied students repeat the course for free.

But the ACADEMIC YEAR is something very different. In our teaching philosophy, you MUST train, even if you feel you’ve understood the entire program. Why? Because being good in class in front of your peers and instructors is one thing; being good on the job is another.

It takes much, much, much more practice than what you get by completing a program just once, and everyone learns at a different pace. Maybe you’ll need 2 months to reach the level required to work in a prestigious venue — while your classmate might need 3, or 6! Without practice, you won’t know.

Think back to school: how long did it take you to learn a full chapter of history? Could you memorize all the dates and names after the very first reading, exactly as your teacher demanded?

If your answer is yes, congratulations — school was much easier for you than for most of us! But the majority of people need to go over something new multiple times because doing a program once — as happens in traditional bartending schools — is simply not enough to really learn how to work.

To become a bartender, you need to memorize countless recipes, techniques, and methods, and reproduce them on the spot, adjusting ingredients and steps as you go. And when you’re asked to prepare multiple cocktails at the same time in the shortest possible period, you can imagine it’s not exactly easy — unless you’ve trained a lot.

To make this kind of learning (both theoretical and practical) possible, at MIXOLOGY Academy we created and registered a unique method called Global Bartending, which allows our students to maximize their training and find work anywhere in the world.

In addition, the Academic Year has been enriched with an App (including exercises to practice from home) and a streaming platform that gives you access to LEVEL UP, our online program for continuous professional and personal growth

The Global Bartending Method is the scientific bar work system created and registered by MIXOLOGY Academy after years of research and evolution of past methodologies, namely:

The American Bar style, born in the 1980s and still taught today in traditional bartending schools, often accompanied by the acrobatic style known as Flair;

The Classic Method, originating in the 1950s and still studied today by hospitality school students and national bartending associations.

The Global Bartending Method, developed by MIXOLOGY Academy, makes it possible to organize the bartender’s workstation as well as every single movement in order to optimize the preparation time of one or more cocktails.

All of this is achieved through a special algorithm we created — a scientific flow chart that allows bartenders to prepare multiple cocktails in the shortest possible time, without compromising the quality of the drinks.

To take full advantage of this system, it’s essential to master both modern and traditional mixing techniques: the deeper your knowledge, the better your performance will be in any professional setting.

Thanks to the Global Bartending Method, the Professional Bartender benefits from the most modern training available, becoming precise, fast, and highly efficient — and gaining far more career opportunities compared to “traditional” bartenders.

MIXOLOGY Academy is proud to host the only bartender academies — in fact, the only TWO Academies in Italy (with campuses in Rome and Milan), each equipped with over 90 individual workstations across 5 classrooms and more than 600 square meters per facility. Every classroom features state-of-the-art equipment, and each workstation is fully equipped with everything you need for the course. This means:

You’ll never have to share your workstation with anyone during live classes, allowing you to take full advantage of your lessons, practice, and training time — 12 months a year, in addition to all the online learning available;

You won’t need to purchase any tools for the course. On the contrary, we’ll provide you with a FREE Bartending Equipment Kit, which you can keep at home to use during online lessons and when you start working.

From day one, our teaching philosophy has been rooted in practice as an essential part of learning.

If you don’t repeat and rehearse a new movement, a technique you didn’t know before, or a recipe you’ve never seen prepared, your learning will be slow and incomplete.

On the other hand, by training as much as you need — well beyond the standard duration of a course — you’ll truly make this profession your own in a “relatively short” time, even if you’re starting from scratch. We say “relatively” because we strongly encourage our students to take full advantage of the Academic Year available to them for as long as possible.

Whether it takes you weeks, months, or even years, it doesn’t matter: what really matters is that by the end of the time suited to your learning pace, you are finally ready to start working as a true professional.

Some people assume that because our campuses are so large — in fact, the largest in Italy and worldwide in the field of bar training — our attention to students cannot be as personalized as in smaller schools.

The reality is quite the opposite. Each National Campus of our Academy operates like a true company, with procedures and quality standards that are constantly tested to ensure continuous improvement.

We’ve set a maximum number of students per Trainer — 12 — but in practice, our data shows we almost never reach that limit, despite the hundreds of students who attend our courses every year. This is possible because we have many Trainers, and none of them are forced into exhausting shifts under poor conditions just to “keep things running.”

Working with us means having balanced schedules — because we don’t want to overwork our Trainers or prevent them from giving their best in class. On top of that, they earn salaries well above the national average, not to mention the bonuses we regularly award to our entire staff.

For our students, this means being fully supported before, during, and after the course — not only by Trainers full of energy and enthusiasm (who continue to upgrade their skills with training that we pay for), but also by our administrative staff, each student’s Tutor, and the people working at Bartender JOB, our dedicated bartending job board.

It’s no coincidence that in our end-of-course feedback forms, the phrase most often used by our students to describe us is ‘we’re like a second family.’ But don’t just take their word for it — come meet us in person and see for yourself. 🙂

MANAGE YOUR CLASS SCHEDULE BASED ON YOUR AVAILABILITY!

The Academy is open Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm and from 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm, and on Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm and from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

You can attend courses with the following shifts:

Weekday Shift = Monday to Friday, either in the morning (10:00 am – 2:00 pm), afternoon (3:00 pm – 7:00 pm), or evening (7:00 pm – 11:00 pm), with the option to change your time slot even after the course has started;

Weekend Shift = Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm and from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm;

Super Intensive Shift = 8 hours of lessons per day, Monday to Friday (10:00 am – 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm, or at other times to be arranged);

Customized Shift = in agreement with the Academic Office, you can personalize your class schedule (days and times) whenever the course program you’ve chosen and available spots allow it.

If you miss one or more lessons, depending on availability, you’ll be offered the chance to continue from where you left off, make up your lessons on another day/shift, or, at the latest, rejoin the next course cycle from the beginning — at no extra cost — within 12 months of enrollment.

Bartender Job is MIXOLOGY Academy’s exclusive in-house department that bridges the gap between your training and entering the job market. In addition to offering you national and international job opportunities, it also assists you in creating your CV — completely free of charge

If you are opening a venue that serves food and beverages, you probably already know that, in order to obtain a bar license, you need to accumulate a certain number of points.

These points are tied to various documents that must be submitted to the local Municipality where your bar is located. The ideal professional to assist you with this process is a specialized surveyor — or the architect/architecture firm handling your venue’s renovation — but below we anticipate some of the main requirements needed to obtain your new Food & Beverage License:

SAB Course (formerly REC) on Food & Beverage Service, or alternatively you may appoint a “designated person” (preposto) with the necessary credentials, such as proven work experience in the sector through employment contracts of sufficient duration;

HACCP Course (available through our partners in Rome and Milan) on risk analysis and critical control points related to food and beverage service;

Specialization Courses in the sector;

Various health and hygiene authorizations;

Etc.

Regarding the “specialization courses,” one way to earn additional points is by presenting certificates obtained after completing professional training programs in the field.

In this regard, the professional specialization certificates issued by MIXOLOGY Academy allow you to earn up to 10 points (the maximum allowed for the ‘specialization courses in the sector’ requirement) towards obtaining a Food & Beverage Service License.

This professional program can be paid for using the following options:

Up to 12 monthly installments with Zero Interest using any Credit Card, Debit Card, or certain prepaid/rechargeable cards such as Poste Pay Evolution or Superflash Card from Intesa San Paolo (also available to students and individuals without payslips or guarantors);

One-time payment in full.

Below are more details about our professional course payment options:

UP TO 12 MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS WITH ZERO INTEREST = a maximum of 12 monthly installments (1 year) with no added interest, using any Credit Card, Debit Card, or certain prepaid/rechargeable cards such as Poste Pay Evolution or Superflash Card from Intesa San Paolo.

This installment plan requires no approval from financial institutions, no payslip, and no guarantor: all you need is an ID and a valid card (Credit, Debit, or eligible prepaid/rechargeable). To make the payment, it’s enough to swipe your card on a POS terminal, just like a normal in-store transaction, with the difference that the total amount will be automatically split into up to 12 interest-free monthly payments.

Importantly, your basic training will be completed well before your payments end: this means that once you’ve finished your professional course, you’ll already be able to start working as a bartender or barista and cover the remaining installments with your new income. On top of that, we’ll help you find a job for FREE through our partner placement agency, Bartender JOB.

ONE-TIME PAYMENT = you can pay the full cost of the bartender/barista/bar business course upfront in a single payment before it begins.

Payment can be completed in cash (within legal limits), by credit card/debit card/eligible prepaid card such as Poste Pay Evolution or Superflash Card from Intesa San Paolo, by bank check, or by bank transfer.

As a welcome gift for enrolling in the Professional Bartender course, you’ll receive:

WOW Welcome Box with a Professional Apron (value €147) and the BARMAN BASICS Kit (value €157) — completely FREE.

Altogether, these gifts are worth €304, but for you they’re absolutely free of charge!

The WOW Box includes exclusive gadgets for our students, such as the “family ring” and a personalized professional apron (alone worth €147).

The Barman Basics Kit includes a video course (accessible both via USB stick and streaming), along with books, a manual, a recipe book, and other extremely useful materials to deepen your knowledge of the bartending world.

When people start a training program that will allow them to begin working, they often have many doubts and concerns:

Can I really trust this school?

Will I feel comfortable in that environment?

Will I be able to understand everything they teach me?

Is this truly the best solution for me?

And most likely, the questions you’re asking yourself right now are many more — and that’s perfectly normal.

Whenever we make an investment, especially one for our future, we all expect the best and want to avoid making the wrong choice.

The courses at MIXOLOGY Academy are NOT “study holidays” where you learn a few cocktails and cappuccinos in a superficial way. They are real professional courses designed for job placement, even though our students love our teaching method and genuinely enjoy the lessons. So, if you’re not looking for a hobby course, we can probably be a great fit for you.

All of our professional courses have been created specifically for people with no prior experience in the field, while those already working as bartenders, baristas, or bar managers can further enhance their expertise through the specialization courses offered by the Academy.

Since embarking on a professional growth path can feel risky — no matter how much information you’ve collected — we decided to offer our 100% Money-Back Satisfaction Guarantee on all of our courses:

If, after completing 20% of the course hours (or 20% of the first module in a professional program), you are not satisfied with our work — or you simply realize this isn’t the step you want to take in your life — then, without conditions or fine print, we will refund your full enrollment fee, and you can even keep the Course Manual.

As you can see, we are an Academy whose mission is to train professionals who achieve extraordinary results in this field. For that reason, if you are not sure you want to carry forward such an ambitious project with us, it’s better to stop now — and not spend a single euro just for trying.