Flair Bartending Moves

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone and I want to talk about what it takes to become a flair bartender. There’s a lot of different ways to do this. Some people simply go to a bar, see it happen and say, ‘I want to learn how to do that.’ Other people go online to howcast.com or …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone. I’m a bartender in New York City. I’m also a flair bartender in New York City. I’ve been bartending since 1998. Sometimes it pains me to say that but that’s how long I’ve been bartending for. I’ve been flair bartending since 2000. And basically I got into the business because …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone from the Beatrice Inn. I’m going to teach you how to garnish with flair. Garnishing is so important because it’s the last thing the customer’s going to remember. It’s like the climax of the movie, it’s the final straw right before you give the customer the drink, and it’s going …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone, I’m the north east United States representative of the Flair Barton association, and I’m going to show you how to do a behind the back to a forearm stall. Now the forearm kind of takes up all of this, right, so what we’re going to do is we’re going to …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris from the Flair Bartenders’ Association, and I’m going to teach you how to do an over the shoulder stall. The over the shoulder stall involves two things. First, learning how to stall a bottle. The best way to learn how to stall a bottle is to just holding the bottle on …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone from the Beatrice Inn in New York City and I’m gonna teach you how to catch a beer bottle behind your back. It’s a great move. The reason I like it so much is that it’s a very low risk move. When somebody’s done with their beer, there’s nothing really …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone. I’m from the Flair Bartender Association and I’m going to show you how to do columns. Now columns is essentially juggling with one hand. So what you’re going to do is you’re going to have two bottles working with one hand and they’re going to be going on a pattern. …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone. I’m the Northeast United States representative of the Flair Bartending Association and I want to talk about sequencing. Sequencing when it comes to Flair Bartending is so important to make yourself look smooth and make the Flair Bartending aspect quicker and more precise. So when it comes to sequencing it’s …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone I work at the Beatrice Inn in New York City and I’m going to teach you to do a two tin capture. When you’re capturing an object, it’s basically you’re swiping it or stealing it out of the air. You can do this with garnishes. You can do it with …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone from the Flair Bartender’s Association. I’m the northeast United States representative, and I’m going to teach you today how to do an arm roll with a tin. It’s a really really easy move once you understand the concept behind it and the way it works, but it’s something that a …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone from the Flare Bartenders’ Association and I’m going to teach you how to do a two bottle column with a swipe through. And the concept of this move is to simply do a column with one hand. A column is just juggling with two bottles with one hand as the …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone. I work at the Beatrice Inn in New York City. And I’m going to teach you how to pour with flair. This is a very, very, very easy trick to do. It’s something that pretty much anybody on the planet can learn to do really quickly. We’ll start with the …

Transcript Hi, Chris Carone from the Beatrasin in New York City. I’m going to teach you how to do a shadow pass. I’m not really sure where the name came from. It might have originated from a guy who was working at the Shadow Bar in Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas but regardless, it’s a …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone from the Flair Bartend Association and I’m gonna teach you how to do a stall. A stall is just taking any object behind a bar and landing it anywhere on your body and keeping it there. The most common stall that you see is one on the back of someone’s …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone from the Beatrice Inn in New York City and I’m gonna teach you how to do a flat behind the back. Now the forward flat just means an object going behind your back and not rotating. And the reason for this is that certain times you’ll have a full bottle …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone from the Beatrice Inn in New York City, and I’m going to teach you how to open up three bottles with flair at the same time. Now most people know how to open a beer. You’ll take your beer opener. You’ll place it underneath the cap. Pop it off. But …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone from the Flair Bartenders’ Association, and I’m going to teach you how to do a two tin split into a stall. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to look at the moves separate first. A stall is just basically landing any object on any body part. In …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone. I work at the Beatrice Inn in New York City and I’m going to show you how to pour from over your shoulder. What you’re going to do is take your tin and your bottle. You’re going to hold the bottle in whats called a reverse grip, and you’re going …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone from the Flair Bartender’s Association, and I’m going to teach you how to flair with ice. So we have a glass that we need to fill up with ice. But we don’t want to just take an ice scoop, scoop the ice, and put it in, although that can certainly …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone from the Flair Bartenders’ Association and I’m going to show you how to open a beer with a sort of beer hanging trick. So what we are going to do is we’re going take the beer we are using and you’re going to take your bottle opener and this is …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone from the Beatrice Inn and the Flair Bartenders’ Association and I’m gonna teach you how to do a figure eight with a bounce cut. Now, bounce cutting is important because you have to be able to finish your pour without spilling it all over the bar and wasting the product …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris from the Flair Bartend Association, and I’m going to teach you how to do a thumb roll. Thumb rolling is a really easy art, once you learn how to do it. You have to basically use your thumb and push the tin. When you push a tin, the tin is going …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone, and I’m going to teach you how to do a palm spin. It’s a really, really simple move. It’s something that you do all the time at your house with an empty beer bottle or a remote control. So, we’re going to do it with a glass. We could do …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone, I’m the East Coast United States representative of the Flair Bartend Association and I also bartend at the Beatrice Inn in New York City. What I’m going to show you how to do today is how to pour three shots at one time into three separate glasses. What we’re going …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone. I work at the Beatrice Inn in New York City, and we’re going to talk about how to improve your speed as a flair bartender. Now in today’s society everybody wants to do fast, fast, fast, whether you’re learning how to play guitar, or you’re learning how to read, you’ve …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone. I’m from the Flair Bartender’s Association. I’m the northeast United States representative, and today I’m going to teach you how to juggle some liquor bottles. Now the beginning of juggling involves learning how to just do a simple two-rotation bottle toss. So we’re going to take our bottle, and you’re …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone. I’m the Northeast United States representative of the Flair Bartenders’ Association and I’m going to show you how to do an exchange which is where you take two different objects and you switch hands in air. So this is essentially the beginning of juggling. If you can do this, you’re …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone from the Flair Bartending Association and I’m gonna teach you how to do a flat behind the back with a rocks glass. So what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna take our glass and we’re gonna basically throw it behind your back and you’re going to release it upon your …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone, I’m the north east United States representative of the Flair Bartenders’ association and I want to teach you how to present napkins and coasters when a guest arrives at your bar. This is such a seldom used item of flair, and it’s so important because it’s the very first interaction …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone, I work at the Beatrice Inn, and I’m going to teach you how to do a Flip to a Pour bottle trick. The most important thing is how to finish your flair routine. You’re doing all sorts of stuff, bottles are going all over the place, everyone’s sitting there like …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone. I work at the Beatrice Inn, and I’m going to teach you how to open a beer with some flare. There’s a million ways to open a beer, and a million cool ways to do it, but I’m going to show you one that is dear to my heart. You’re …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone. I’m the Eastern United States representative of Flair Bartenders association, and I’m gonna to teach you how to do a behind the back exchange. This is much more advanced move of Flair bar tending. It’s a concept of taking an item, whatever it is, whether it be two bottles, two …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone and I’m going to teach you how to do an around the head grip change. It’s a really, really simple idea behind the around the head grip change, and it’s important to be able to pour around your head. So, whether you’re pouring into a tin or a glass or …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone. I’m the Northeast United States representative of the Flair Bartenders’ Association. And I’m going to teach you how to do a tin toss. Now you can do a flat toss, which doesn’t really provide any excitement or anything at the bar, it’s kind of just, you know, tossing your tin …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone, I bartend at the Beatrice Inn in the West Village and I’m going to show you how to do a tin spin. It’s one of the most easy moves in flair bartending, but people have trouble with it because they just don’t understand the science of their palm and their …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone. I’m going to teach you how to do a flat behind the back with the same hand. Now you start off with what you’re going to use, whether it’s a bottle or a tin. You’re going to take your bottle and you’re going to bring it behind your back. You’re …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone. I’m the East Coast United States representative of the Flair Bartend Association and I want to talk about some tips to learn how to flair bartend. The first thing is you have to learn your strike zone. You have to understand that it’s all about controlling your bottles and tins …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone. I work at the Beatrice Inn in the West Village of New York City, and I want to talk about the difference between exhibition flair and working flair. Very, very big categories and very, very big differences. The majority of the people in this world know exhibition flair, because they’ve …

Transcript Hi. I’m Chris Cardone from the Flair Bartender’s Association and I’m going to teach you one of the most coveted and exciting moves, known as the bump. Flair bartender’s use it all the time, customers absolutely love it, people go crazy over it. And it’s actually sort of a middle advanced move. It’s not …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone, and I’m the United States East Coast representative of the Flair Bartenders’ Association. Today I’m going to talk about the tools use can use when you flair bartend. You could pretty much flair with any item behind any bar any day of the week, but we’ll go through some individual …

Transcript Hi, I’m Chris Cardone and I’m gonna talk a little bit about what flair bartending actually is. Flair bartending is nothing more than just bartending with some style. It can be as easy as taking a tin and spinning it around your body as you’re moving or as difficult as juggling bottles around, but …