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How To: Use a jet bottle washer
Watch this how to video to learn how easy it is to prepare your beer bottles for bottling with a jet washer.
How To: Mix a lemon Bumble Bee vodka cocktail
Dining al fresco? Try this tasty summer Bumble Bee vodka cocktail. For the Bumble Bee cocktail you will need: Pink lemonade, sparkling water, and vodka. Add a little vodka for a buzz or a two cups for a sting.
How To: Make an Electric Lemonade
American Bartenders School shows how to make this popular summer time blue rum drink - the Electric Lemonade.
How To: Make a perfect Margarita cocktail with this classic recipe
This is the ultimate recipe for everyone's favorite Tequila drink, the margarita. You'll need 2-5 oz. of Tequila, .75 oz. of Triple Sec or Cointreau, .75 oz. of Royal Montaine or Grand Marnier, 1 oz. of lime juice, and 4 oz. of sweet and sour mix.
How To: Mix a Bay Breeze cocktail
Learn how to mix a Bay Breeze cocktail from a hot girl in this instructional bartending video! Ingredients:
How To: Mix an Old Fashioned
This instructional video takes you step by step in making an old fashioned--a classic cocktail still enjoyed today. Steps:
How To: Make a Baby Guinness
Learn how to make a Baby Guinness or "Little Beer" in this video. While a Baby Guinness is in no way beer, it does look like a small pint of Guinness. First you almost fill up a shot glass with Khalua. Then you fill the rest with Baileys and the resemblance to Guinness is startling.
How To: Make bourbon pecan sour
Watch this video to learn how to make a bourbon pecan sour. Start by putting 2 ounces of Makers Mark in a metal container shaker. Then add an ounce and a half of pecan syrup and a half ounce of lemon juice. Add ice and shake it up. After you shake it up you will want to strain the mixture as you pour it out into a glass. Then you want to garnish the drink with an orange peel. To get the pecan syrup you emulsify it down to simple syrup using tic gum. This keeps the pecan oil from floating on t...
How To: Bottle mead
In this tutorial, we learn how to bottle mead. When you are bottling mead there are a lot of things to take into consideration. You can use different styles of bottles that are clear so you can see what's inside of them. Use the #9 types of corks because they work very well with bottles and create a great seal. If you use a cheap one the cork will break off into the mead. Prepare the corks before mottling by placing them in boiling water and leaving it to steam for a few minutes. Use these ti...
How To: Make a Blue Balls cocktail
Baron Brunton and VideoJug demonstrate how to make a Blue Balls cocktail -- a delicious and refreshing cocktail for any occasion. A mixture of light rum, blue curacao, and a strong helping of raspberry syrup. First, crush ice and add to blender, then add the rum and raspberry syrup. Then blend on low and garnish. Make a Blue Balls cocktail.
How To: Make your own yeast starter for homebrewing
In order to make starter years, for home brewing beer, you will need the following ingredients and supplies: water, sanitizer, DME, scissors, refractometer, a magnetic stir bar, aluminum foil, yeast, and a funnel.
How To: Drink like a man
Getting weird looks from the other dudes at the bar? Maybe because you're ordering a sex on the beach like the other women. Spit out that tropical drink or wine spritzer and throw away your stemware. It's time to put some hair on your chest, hoss.
How To: Make an African violet cocktail
A shot for any occasion… who needs an excuse? A three-layered cocktail consisting of white crème de cacao liqueur, blue curacao, and whisky. Make an African violet cocktail.
How To: Mix The French 75
Master mixologist Chris McMillian walks us through the history and preparation of the French 75. The French 75 is a classic Sunday brunch drink which was created in New Orleans. This is a unique cocktail that uses gin and champagne as a base!
How To: Open a cold Champagne bottle
This is a very brief video demonstrating the correct way to open a bottle of sparkling wine. Always make the bottle is well chilled and pointing away from people's faces. Pour you champagne and enjoy.
How To: Make a delicious and festive Valencia cocktail
Named after a sweet variety of orange, make this cocktail the next time you're asked for something fruity. The Valencia requires: 2 ounces apricot brandy, 1 ounce fresh orange juice, 3 dashes orange bitters, chilled champagne or sparkling wine, ice cubes and an orange twist to garnish. Make a delicious and festive Valencia cocktail.
How To: Make moonshine at home
This two-part video tutorial shows you how to make classic moonshine. The first part shows you how to make the mash. The second part shows you how to make a still and complete the moonshine. Just make sure you have the right equipment, the right ingredients, and follow the directions exactly! The quality of your moonshine depends on it!
How To: Mix an Arnold Palmer cocktail
American Bartenders School shows how to make a Arnold Palmer mixed drink cocktail. This is the drink of choice with many golfers. You will need vodka, lemonade, and iced tea. Watch this video specialty drink-mixing tutorial and learn how to make an Arnold Palmer cocktail.
How To: Make a shot glass out of ice
The coolest way to do a shot? Drink it from a glass made of ice. Learn how to make a shot glass out of ice.
How To: Home brew moonshine
This is a short documentary on brewing moonshine at home.
How To: Make a margarita using a mix
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a margarita using a mix. You will need: 1/3 c tequila, 2/3 c margarita mix, 1/2 c lemon lime, 1/2 lemon, and Grand Marnier. First, pour all the ingredients into a shaker with ice and combine them all together. After this, grab your margarita glass and rim it with salt. Next, pour the mixture into the margarita glass and then place a lime wedge as garnish on the side. This will serve two people and tastes great! This is perfect for an afternoon cocktail o...
How To: Put a whole fruit inside a bottle
This how-to video teaches you the secret of real natural fruity liquor, by learning how it's possible to put an entire fruit inside a regular bottle. It's a really simple technique, and yet most people will be puzzled how you've managed to squeeze the fruit through the bottleneck! Any bottle will do, and most kinds of fruits will work great! Give it a try, just watch this instructional video!
How To: Make the perfect lemon twist as a cocktail garnish
It's not just about a pretty twist of lemon peel; it's about the lemon zest and the citrusy oil, and all of that nestling in your glass and interacting with your cocktail's ingredients, says CHOW. This is an important technique for bartenders. Learn how to make the perfect lemon twist as a cocktail garnish.
How To: Mix a Chilton cocktail
Learn how to mix a Chilton cocktail from a hot girl in this instructional bartending video! Ingredients:
How To: Cut a lemon twist for a cocktail
This is how the pro bartenders cut a proper lemon twist. You will need a knife, an ice pick, and of course, a lemon. Watch this video bartending tutorial and learn how to peel a pretty and decorative lemon peel twist.
How To: Make tequila from agave nectar
In Mexico, there are a lot of kinds of agave, and depending on the type of agave you can make different drinks. Blue agave is the only kind used to make tequila. The harvested agave stalks are then steamed in an oven for a day, and then cooled for another day. The stalks are then fermented. No need to add any sugar. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to make tequila from agave nectar. Make tequila from agave nectar.
How To: Make holiday eggnog with rum, brandy or whiskey
What’s the holiday season without a glass of creamy eggnog? Can you even remember a Christmas when everybody wasn't drunk off eggnog? Well, this year, instead of buying eggnog from a carton and simply spiking it with a little alcohol, learn to make your own.
How To: Mix a Dragonfly cocktail with gin and ginger ale
If you have gin and ginger ale, you've got what it takes to make a great Dragonfly cocktail. This clip will show you how it's done. With the proper technique, mixing the perfect drink can be easy. So easy, in fact, that this free video bartenders' guide can present an overview of the process in about a minute. For more information, including a full list of ingredients and complete instructions on how to mix this drink yourself, watch this video drink recipe.
How To: Make a refreshing spa-like cucumber cooler vodka drink
If you were ever going to open up a luxurious daytime spa, this cucumber cooler drink would definitely need to be on your drink list. It's refreshing and full of vodka and cucumbers. Definitely an invigorating take on an alcoholic drink.
How To: Mix an Apple Jack with Jack Daniel's whiskey and apple juice
Want to make an Apple Jack like a champion bartender? This clip will show you how it's done. With the proper technique, mixing the perfect drink can be easy. So easy, in fact, that this free video bartenders' guide can present an overview of the process in about a minute's time. For more information, including a full list of ingredients and complete instructions on how to mix this drink yourself, take a look.
How To: Do tin basics for flair bartending
This instructional video demonstrates the following flair bartending trick: understand tin basics.
How To: Mix a vodka and Amaretto godmother cocktail
American Bartenders School shows how to make a God Mother mixed drink cocktail. You will need vodka and amaretto. Watch this video specialty drink-mixing tutorial and learn how to make a Godmother cocktail.
How To: Mix a Gorilla Fart cocktail shot
What better way to learn how to mix a drink than from a hot girl! This bartending how-to video teaches a cocktail recipe for a Gorilla Fart shot. You will need Bacardi 151 rum, Southern Comfort, and Jack Daniels bourbon whiskey. Follow along with this video mixology lesson and find out how to make a Gorilla Fart cocktail shooter. Get your (alcoholic) drink on.
How To: Make a Screaming Multiple Orgasm
Watch this video to learn the perfect recipe to a screaming multiple orgasm.
How To: Make a "Beautiful" with Grand Marnier & brandy
In order to make a Beautiful, with Grand Marnier and Brandy, you will need the following: 1 ounce of Grand Marnier, 1 ounce of brandy, one brandy snifter, and a lighter or a match.
How To: Make flaming shots
Bartenderweekly.com presents a tribute to fire and alcohol! Learn how to mix flaming shots - a Flaming Jesus and a Flaming Dr. Pepper.
How To: Make an Obama shot
This is a homemade idea, called an Obama shot. Watch and learn how to combine these two liquors with jello to make a tasty treat.
How To: Get Drunk Fast
Sick of pounding beer and shots to get drunk faster? Here's a sure-fire way to get drunk faster, be forewarned, this involves using your anus. If you can't view the video below, you can check out this MANswer over on Spike.
How To: Cut a lemon garnish for a cocktail
This video demonstrates how professional bartenders cut their lemons. Lemons can be cut either as half moons or wedges. Watch this video bartending tutorial and learn how to make a fancy lemon garnish for a cocktail.
How To: Mix a "bald pussy" cocktail drink
The American Bartender's School shows you how to make a "bald pussy" cocktail drink. Check out this how-to video from wonderhowto.com for tips on getting drunk fast with a bald pussy.