Bartending Fundamentals · Public Preview

Learn the bar.
Practice the fundamentals.
Build your skills.

A self-paced, interactive bartending learning experience built around real technique, real scenarios, and structured practice.

Online bartending training from South Texas School of Bartending, available from anywhere. Learn at your own pace.

Two sides of the craft

Two lessons.
A little practice.
A sample check.

Meet Ruben, practice the drink-building workflow, and see how a bartender handles a guest situation. Follow the gold Next Step through this intentionally limited sample.

4.7 Build Your First Highball · Vodka Soda
10.4 “This Drink Is Weak” · Professional Judgment
First Drink Build · mini Practice Lab
Three sample Module Check questions

The full course contains 11 modules, 85 lessons, Practice Labs, Module Checks, and a Final Challenge.

South Texas School of Bartending

Meet Your Instructor

Ruben Villanueva

Founder & Instructor · South Texas School of Bartending

Ruben teaches bartending the way it is actually worked behind a bar: practical, repeatable, and focused on doing the job right. Throughout the course, you’ll see Ruben’s Teaching Point — short lessons, shortcuts, and observations pulled from real STSB instruction.

The drinks matter. But the bartender controls the room.

Follow the gold Next Step to experience drink building and professional judgment.

Module 4 · Lesson 4.7 · Public Sample

Build Your First Highball

Vodka Soda

Module 10 · Lesson 10.4 · Public Sample

“This Drink Is Weak”

Module 4 · Mini Practice Lab Preview

First Drink Build

Physically build several simple training drinks using the STSB build order.

Try these three sample steps

Set out clean glassware, ice, water/training bottle, mixer, and garnish substitute.Build a vodka-soda training version.Reset the station after each build.

Complete the three sample steps before continuing.

This preview selects three steps from the First Drink Build lab. The full practice sequence continues in the paid course.

Drink Building + Professional Judgment · Sample Check

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Question 1 of 3Preview only · no course credit

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11 modules85 lessonsPractice LabsModule ChecksReal-world bartender scenariosFinal Challenge

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Measured PouringFree PouringDrink BuildingShake / Stir / StrainBeerRush ManagementGuest ServiceProfessional JudgmentFinal Challenge

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