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3 minUpdated 2026-08-02

This module answers one question: what, if anything, do you need in hand before you can work behind a bar where you live.

It is a hard question to answer by searching, and not because the information is hidden. It is hard because nearly every result is an advertisement. Course vendors have every incentive to describe the thing they sell as required, and in plenty of places it is not. Some of the most confidently worded pages you will find are selling a voluntary certificate under a name that implies a license.

How the module works

The first lesson is the method, and it is true everywhere. It explains how alcohol service regulation is organized in the United States, the shapes an answer can take, how to find your own authority's page, and how to read it once you are there. Learn it and you can answer this question in any state or county, including ones we have not covered, and including after the rules change.

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Module 0 is open to everyone. From Module 2 on, the track asks you to make an account — it is free, there is nothing to buy, and it is what lets your progress follow you between devices.

Already read some of Bartending signed out? That progress is saved on this device and joins your account when you sign up.

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