![]() It’s free to all undergraduates and run in collaboration with the Alcohol and Other Drugs Harm Reduction Initiative (AODHRI). Now in its eighth semester, the current iteration is taught by John Clark-Ginnetti, who also owns 116 Crown, a New Haven cocktail bar where classes are held. “We’re trying to see what we can do to make sure underage students understand what a drink is supposed to look and taste like.” Since at least the 1970s, Yale has hosted a number of various bartending schools. “We know underaged people are drinking,” said Robert Sullivan, director of Yale Catering, in 2013. Whether academic or extracurricular, today most of these Ivy-sponsored courses seem designed to help students more thoughtfully consider how, why and what they drink. Focused less on cutting-edge technique than foundational skills, students familiarize themselves with spirit flavor profiles and how they best pair with modifiers and mixers. Its textbook, Bartending 101: The Basics of Mixology, has reportedly sold a half-million copies since its initial publication in 1985. But today, classes are held at the school-owned, student-run Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub. ![]() Taught since 1964, the course’s final exam once consisted of students forming a circle and mixing drinks for the person to their right until someone passed out. ![]() “The Harvard Bartending Course is a branch of a nonprofit student-run organization called The Harvard Student Agencies, which has a main goal of providing students with meaningful business experience,” says Marcus Miller, a “first-year” (in Harvard parlance) and the current manager of the course. ![]()
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