Dean Serneel has created an excellent 4 Volume DVD set which is all you need to become an expert in the bar tending industry. Each disc is packed with step by step techniques and vital training information. Special Features include: trailers, short videos, and bonus footage. The Menus are broken down into specific categories, so your not wasting time looking for the content you need to see.

Volume 4, Practical Bar Magic, includes tried and tested magic tricks from years of working as a professional restaurant magician. Over one hour of epic, memorable, Bar Magic. Learn how to do tricks with props found behind your bar. Slow motion step by step instructions of over 25 different tricks. Learn the Floating Shaker Tin, make a Lit Cigarette disappear, and how to Steal Watches right of the arms of your guests. This disk is perfect for anyone working the wood.

This is not only a super way to improve your tips and customer loyalty, it’s loads of fun at parties too!

To get more information, see video clips or purchase Practical Bar Magic click here!

We have decided to occasionally feature a product from our extensive Tip20! Bar Store now and then.

Found in the Flair Briefcase Tool Kit

Today we are featuring our “Top of the Line” Flair Briefcase Tool Kit.

If you are a Flair bartender then you know how important it is you keep your gear in tact and easily toted from one gig to the next. This professional flair bartenders tote is not only equipped with flair appropriate tools, but it is perfect for easy transportation.

The Bar-Tote is a durable, all-black, water-resistant, nylon tote designed to carry an assortment of bartending and personal items. It measures in at 14″W 12″L 4.5″D and has 16 compartments varying in size to fit your every bar tool need from jiggers and shakers, to calculators and asprin. This large bar tote comes equipped with easy carry handles and a removable strap for shoulder carry.

Flair Briefcase Tool Kit

Contents of the Flair Tool Bag Kit

• 3 – 28 oz Weighted Powdercoated Neon Yellow Shaker Tins
• 16 oz Mixing Glass
• Powdercoated Neon Yellow 4-Prong Strainer
• Powdercoated Neon Yellow Speed Opener w/ Magnetic Clip
• Jigger (.5 x 1)
• 3 Piece 28 oz Stainless Steel Shaker
• 2 Practice Flair Bottles
• Stainless Steel Fruit / Ice Tongs
• Stainless Steel Muddler
• Citrus Press (Chrome)
• Fruit / Twist Knife with Blade
• Utility Knife
• Shaker Grip Tape (Red)
• 2 Lighters
• Julep Strainer
• Double Lever Corckscrew
• Light Up Pen
• Black Shaker Mat
• 5 Black Tapered Metal Pourers
• Stainless Steel Ice Scoop
• Neon Yellow Pour Check
• Stainless Steel Bar Spoon
• Gold Martini Mister
• Bar Products Black Towel

Believe it or not ALL OF THIS INCLUDED for only: $119.94!

Arrive at work or the party, make an impression and show off your stuff.

See more info and options here.

Tip20! Welcomes professional flair bartender David Neeson. Dave has skill, tallent and a personality that won’t quit. We eagerly look forward to Dave’s contributions and insight on the world of bartending from basic drink mixing to some of the real tricky stuff. We are certain that professional bartenders and home bartenders alike with glean some great information from Dave. Meet Dave here…

by David Neeson – Tip20! Contributer

My name is David. I remember growing up looking at people who have ‘fun’ jobs and being jealous.  I was 10 when I first went to a go-kart track and saw this guy whose entire job is to just sit outside and be around go-karts ALL DAY LONG… How awesome was that?   I mean he’s not in an office, or in the back scrubbing toilets, he’s around fun go-karts just sitting around and occasionally jumping on the back of a kart and riding it for a bit. Most important thing is he’s outside around people when THEY are having fun…

It took me awhile, but seven years later I became that guy.  I worked at a Family Fun Center for two years working the go-karts.   By now you’re probably thinking, “What does this have to do with bartending???”  Well hold on, because it was around that same time that I went into a TGI Fridays and saw a bartender who had the entire crowd laughing, cheering, and genuinely enjoying themselves.   It was at that exact moment that I found my new ‘fun’ job to strive for.

I left Indiana and went to college at the University of Dayton, in Ohio.  Sure I left my family and friends a state away, but I never forgot that feeling in the bar as a teenager. I wanted to be that guy who had the crowd cheering, and remembered that he was doing ‘flair’ behind his bar and owning every inch of it.  I didn’t know at the time how hated flair is to bartenders, all I knew is how much fun I had watching it.   Within the first two months at Dayton, I found a group of jugglers and learned how to juggle with the specific idea of applying it to bottles later in life.  Even though learning to juggle was a big step in my life, I was too scared to say anything about my hopes to family and friends, because it just seemed silly.  This brings me to another point I want to make: The ONE thing I would like to accomplish by this post is giving hope to those who enjoy something, not to be scared to strive to get it done, no passion is stupid…

My second year at Dayton I left on a study abroad program to Hawaii.  I was only 20 but thought I was the best flair bartender in the WORLD.   I soon found guys who showed me otherwise and taught me the art; yes I said art, of flair bartending.  I can truly pinpoint my passion for bartending, and flair, to that moment in my life.

It’s been several years since and I’m still growing and learning every day.  Flair bartending aside, bartending is still an art.   Not everyone can walk into a bar and own every inch of that bar top.  I’ve heard the saying over and over, “I can teach a monkey how to pour a drink, but I can’t teach anyone how to bartend.”

It’s hard to look someone in the eye when they’re having a bad day, and get them to trust you enough in the five minutes you’ve known them, to tell you why their day isn’t going well.
I’m here to talk about bartending.  So my first question to those who’ve cared enough to read this far is, Why do you bartend?   This isn’t meant to call into question the monetary rewards bartending achieves, but this is more calling into question your dedication to the art…  So… Why?  Why do you bartend.  I do this because it’s the only job that no one is perfect at.  No one can go into a shift and truly have the exact same thing happen to them because everyday is something different…

If by now you’re tired of bartending, or don’t have the motivation to grow in the art, then sit down and think about what it was like for you the first time you saw a bartender who really made you feel good… I mean someone who probably wouldn’t be able to pick you out from a ham sandwich, but yet you still respect enough to trust them with your deepest secrets…

Bartending can be fun.  Bartending SHOULD be fun.  Aside from the flair aspect, which I plan on talking about later, bartending should be a job people look forward to…   If your bar is gloomy, then take some action and be that one person who makes other people have fun… No one likes having a boring area to work, and fun can be contagious…

Well I’m going to end this with that same go-kart track that I worked at before bartending… It sucked… After the initial first week, it was boring and the same thing over and over while smelling gas fumes and dealing with yelling children every day… The one thing that kept me going was that even though I got the same question asked, and same scenarios each day, it was with a different person and I couldn’t hold that against them…   I never knew if I was going to the next race with a child who looked up to me like I did that guy how ever many years ago, so I had to make it fun… After I did that, the fumes and yelling didn’t bother me quite as much…

Choose your work style…