Bartending Courses & Personal Mixology Coaching
Learn to make better drinks with live, personalised guidance from Riccardo Grechi. Start with the fundamentals, sharpen your technique or work through advanced mixology questions—at your level, with a learning plan built around you.
For beginners, home enthusiasts and working bartenders.
Live online lessons in English or Italian · Personalised topics and pace.
Agree your sessions, practice materials and fee before booking.
Personal coaching in English or Italian, built around you
WHAT'S INCLUDED
How We Work
Your starting point → a clear learning goal → explanation and demonstration → guided practice → feedback and next steps.
What You Receive
Agreed recipe references, technique notes, exercises and knowledge checks to support your own practice. The material is selected for your course rather than a generic operating manual.
Choose Your Focus
Choose foundations, drink balance, classic cocktails, alcohol-free drinks or advanced mixology. Bring a specific question or build a structured series of lessons around your goals.
Before We Start
Share your experience, preferred language, time zone, available equipment and the drinks or techniques you want to understand. No professional bar is required for an initial discussion.
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BUILT BY INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Created by Riccardo Grechi, working beverage manager, bar consultant & trainer.
The Double Strainer is built by Riccardo Grechi, an Italian head mixologist, bar consultant and trainer with 10+ years of hands-on experience across Europe and Southeast Asia. His work combines cocktail R&D, menu engineering, cost control, SOP development, training and beverage-program design, with a focus on practical systems that can be used in real service, not just theory.
10+ years of bar and hospitality experience
Award-winning head mixologist
Menu development, training & operations systems
Luxury hotel, cocktail bar & multi-venue experience
Founder of The Double Strainer, read by 100,000+ people yearly
One-to-one bartending and mixology training designed around what you want to learn. Work directly with Riccardo Grechi, founder of The Double Strainer, to understand the reasoning behind recipes, practise your technique and get answers to the questions holding you back.
Choose a focused coaching session or a structured series of lessons. This is live, personalised teaching with feedback and guided practice, rather than a prerecorded course or a download. Your current level, tools and ingredients shape the programme.A PERSONAL LEARNING PLAN
Start with your experience, goals and questions. Agree the topics, number and length of lessons, practical exercises, supporting materials and fee before booking.
LIVE EXPLANATIONS & PRACTICAL FEEDBACK
Work through techniques and recipes together. Learn what to look for, how to recognise common mistakes and which adjustments to try. Online practical work uses your own tools and ingredients.
EXERCISES & STUDY REFERENCES
Your agreed programme can include recipe references, preparation notes, practice exercises and knowledge checks. A longer path can connect several topics and review your progress between sessions.
FOCUSED MIXOLOGY SUPPORT
Bring a specific question, a recipe that is not working or a technique you want to understand. Get a structured explanation and a practical way to test the next step.
The proposal confirms what is included. Ingredients, equipment and any travel are separate unless stated. Lessons are personal coaching; no accredited qualification or employment outcome is promised.BARTENDING FOUNDATIONS
Set up your tools, measure accurately, choose glassware, handle ice and learn when to shake, stir or build. Understand temperature, dilution and the structure of classic cocktails.
FLAVOUR, BALANCE & DRINK DEVELOPMENT
Work with sweetness, acidity, bitterness, aroma and texture. Use classic drink families to understand recipes and develop your own ideas with a repeatable tasting and adjustment process.
HOMEMADE INGREDIENTS & ADVANCED MIXOLOGY
Explore syrups, cordials, infusions, clarification, fat washing, batching and texture. Select techniques appropriate to your experience, available equipment and goals.
MOCKTAILS & ALCOHOL-FREE DRINKS
Build structure and complexity without relying on spirits. Work on flavour, balance, body, presentation and practical preparation.
PROFESSIONAL CONFIDENCE
Develop product knowledge, station organisation, recipe consistency and clearer guest explanations. Ask specific questions about applying your skills behind the bar.Recipes tell you what to pour, but often leave you guessing why a drink tastes unbalanced or why a technique gives inconsistent results. Personal coaching connects the explanation with your own practice.
The goal is to help you understand your decisions, recognise mistakes and repeat what works. You leave each agreed session with clear points to practise, rather than simply another list of drinks to memorise.1. Share your current level, goals, questions, preferred language and time zone.
2. Agree a focused session or a longer learning path, including topics, lesson hours, materials and fee.
3. Prepare the tools and ingredients agreed for practical work, or choose an explanation-led session.
4. Join your live lesson, ask questions and work through the selected exercises with feedback.
5. Practise the agreed next steps. Further sessions or follow-up are confirmed as part of your programme.Complete beginners exploring bartending; cocktail enthusiasts improving drinks at home; new bartenders building reliable foundations; and experienced professionals who want focused help with recipe development or advanced techniques.
You do not need to know everything before starting. Tell Riccardo what you already use and what you want to learn. For venue-wide staff training, onboarding or operating procedures, choose Bar Training & SOPs within Venue Consulting.
AT A GLANCE
Coaching
One-to-one bartending and mixology
Format
Live online · English or Italian
Price
Personal proposal before booking
Materials
Practice notes and exercises as agreed
For
Beginners through experienced bartenders
New to Bartending? Start with Confidence
YOUR STARTING POINT
You enjoy cocktails or want to begin working behind a bar, but the tools, recipes and terminology feel disconnected.
YOUR LEARNING PATH
Build a practical foundation in measuring, ice, shaking, stirring, glassware and classic drink structures. Learn to explain why a method is used and how balance and dilution change the result.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Practise selected exercises and recipes with clear notes and feedback. The pace and setup are adapted to you, whether you are learning at home or preparing for your first bar role.
Already Behind the Bar? Refine Your Craft
YOUR STARTING POINT
You can follow recipes and work a station, but want stronger creative reasoning, more reliable preparation or answers to a specific technical problem.
YOUR LEARNING PATH
Explore drink development, ingredient preparation, clarification, infusions, fat washing, batching, texture or alcohol-free drinks. Work through the reasoning, variables and practical tests behind the chosen topic.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Apply an agreed practice plan to your own recipes and review what changes. These are examples of learning paths; your sessions are tailored to your actual experience and goals.
BEFORE YOU BOOK
Your programme confirms lesson hours, topics, practical setup, materials and fee before booking. Choose a focused question or a longer course.
A course built around you
Personal goals · Live guidance · Clear next steps