Your RSA Certificate! And Serving Alcohol In A Bar

When In Doubt, Vodka can be the best option, but it is highly alcoholic and is easy to over serve, and having your RSA certificate means you know how to avoid this.

When you get an indecisive customer, suggest something palatable and smooth. Vodka drinks are easy and well received. The RSA course can give you the tools to serve correctly behind a bar, and can teach you what to do when you notice a patron who has been drinking too much. It is your duty to protect people drinking when you are the one serving them the drinks, and you need to have your RSA certificate. So, yes, Vodka can be a good drink to serve to anyone who is indecisive, but you need to be aware of exactly what you are giving them, as you’re responsible for their intake. You also need to tell them what you are serving them; if you are giving them vodka, tell them how much. If it is something else like Jagermeister, then still tell them how much you are giving them in the way of standard drinks or they may not understand it.

Silly Monkey - RSA Certificate Needed

Ingredients
29 ml Vodka
14 ml Creme de Banana
14 ml Creme de Cacao (dark)
1 banana, halved
14 ml cream

Combine all but one half of banana in blender w/ice and blend well, serve in parfait glass. Garnish with remaining banana, sliced and skewered w/maraschino cherry.

Eye Of the Tiger – RSA Certificate Needed

Ingredients
14 ml Vodka
14 ml Orange Curacao
14 ml  Coffee liqueur

Pour the Vodka into a shooter, then pour, AT THE SAME TIME, both the Curacao and Coffee liqueur along opposite sides of the glass. The result should be a swirl of dark brown and orange stripes.

Blue Moon

Ingredients
14 ml Vodka
14 ml Blue Curacao
14 ml Peach Schnapps

The First Temptation – RSA Certificate Needed to serve in a bar

Ingredients
29 ml Vodka
14 ml Peach Schnapps
14 ml sour apple schnapps
lemon lime soda

Combine Vodka and both Schnapps in an ice filled Collins glass, fill with soda, garnish with lime wheel.

Russian Senorita – RSA Certificate Needed to serve in a bar

Ingredients
29 ml Vodka
14 ml Tequila
14 ml Tripe Sec
29 ml sweetened lime juice

Combine all ingredients in the glass half of a Boston shaker, stir until some of the ice is diluted and the mixture is quite cold, serve in a salt rimmed margarita glass. Garnish with lime wheel.

Rootbeer Float – RSA Certificate Needed

14 ml Vodka
14 ml Rootbeer Schnapps
14 ml Irish Cream

Combine Vodka and Schnapps in shooter and float Irish Cream.

These recipes are sure to be a hit wherever you work, but you may want to check the percentage of alcohol that you are giving to each patron. So while you may be entertaining them with new drinks, never lose track of how much you are handing out, and always monitor the body language of each patron. This is what the RSA Course will teach you and is what will keep your bar safe.