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Just like every profession in the world, bartending has bar terms and bar terminology that every good bartender needs to know in order to perform their job well. If you're not 'up' on the bar lingo, you'll have trouble taking orders from customers who are 'in the know'. Customers who have been around the bar circuit for a while and have their favourite drinks, tend to order them in a specific manner.If someone orders a "dirty martini, rocks" they are not asking for a martini in a dirty glass with some pebbles in it they want a martini with some olive juice, served on ice. And if a customer orders a "scotch neat", he is not saying that he thinks it's cool that your bar carries scotch he's asking for a shot of scotch without any ice.Learning the bar lingo is not too difficult especially if your bar terminology gets put to the test behind the bar every once in a while. For the purposes of this article, we're just going to list the most popular and widely used bar terms things you really need to know but might not be able to figure out on your own.

Dirty dirty is simply the adding of olive juice to a drink usually a martini.Float to float something is to layer a lighter alcohol on top of a heavier alcohol.Free Pour pouring drinks without using any type of measuring device such as a shot glass, jigger or measured pour spout.Frost some pubs use frosted beer mugs these are mugs that are dipped in water, drained and then kept in the freezer or fridge to create a frosting on the outside of the glass.Garnish anything added to a drink to enhance the presentation commonly includes cherries, lime wedges, lemon slices, olives etc.Jigger a measuring device that is shaped like an hourglass that has two different measurements on each side. Used to measure the amount of alcohol going into drinks.Neat neat simply means no ice sometimes called Straight UpPremium a premium is a higher priced brand of liquor also called top shelfRim to rim a glass means to create a rim around the lip of the glass using anything from salt to sugar to candy. A commonly rimmed cocktail is a Bloody Mary or Margarita.Rocks anything on the rocks means on ice.