Like wine, beer, liquor or cold drinks? If you’re looking for a new job, there are several job positions in the beverage business. One of these drinks related positions are bound to offer the perfect career path for an enthusiastic and hard-drinking working individual.
Bartender
Bartenders must provide guests with an excellent drinking experience. The perfect candidate will be able to mix and match ingredients in order to create classic and innovative drinks in accordance with customers’ needs and expectations. A positive attitude and excellent communication skills are both key characteristics of a bartender.
Barista
If your passion is coffee then this is just the job for you. The barista is responsible for serving steaming hot coffees with friendly, individualized attention towards each customer. A barista is also responsible for educating customers and make sure that they understand the difference between instant coffee, a cappacino and a affogato.
Sommelier
This is a a position that requires a highly-skilled and talented professional. Also known as a wine waiter, sommeliers posses in-depth knowledge and have a great understanding of wine, of which their mastery can be put to good use in a variety of settings. Sommeliers work in hotels and restaurant wine cellars where they would consult with chefs to decide the best pairing of wines and dishes. His or her key role is to be able to advise the patrons according to their personal needs i.e. it can be related to their taste, the food and wine pairing, the occasion or the budget.
Winemaker
A winemaker, also known as an enologist or vintner, oversees the entire winemaking process, from grape harvest through bottling, and may be responsible for supervise the work of grape growers and laboratory technicians. They must possess a knowledge of grapes, growing regions, and local production and marketing regulations. Employers may prefer winemakers with a bachelor’s degree in viticulture.
Wine Representative
An outsiders view of a wine representative is often one of a free soul, not tied down to an office, free wine on tap, long lunches, golf days and endless tasting sessions with excited customers. If only that were true! There are may perks to working as a wine rep, and certainly every day is spent somewhere different but behind the scenes the work of a wine rep is very serious and very unglamorous: wineries produce a fast moving consumer good called wine and it is the wine rep’s job to continuously sell that FMCG to customers new and old.
Beverage Manager
Beverage managers, also known as bar managers, are mostly found in larger organizations, such as hotels and holiday resorts. The beverage manager checks storeroom inventory, and replenishes the bar from stocked items or places orders with suppliers as needed. Beverage managers negotiate pricing with suppliers. They receive, check, and enter items into inventory upon arrival, and ensure that paperwork is processed for bookkeeping and payment.
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Brewer
Brewers are primarily responsible for making beer. They are involved with the entire process of creating alcoholic beverages and fuels. Their chief duties include selecting and checking the malted barley or grain which will be used in the preparation of a particular kind of beer, adding yeast, hops, water, and other necessary ingredients, checking the fermentation rate, and monitoring the pH values and temperature throughout the process of brewing.
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