ESPRESSO ACADEMY
BARISTA AND COFFEE COURSES

Are you fascinated by the Espresso and barista world? Want you to start from the basic skills? Are you thinking to dedicate yourself to the profession of barista?
 

This course is designed for beginners who are eager to dive into the world of espresso and barista skills. It covers the essentials to get you started as a barista.

• Coffee Varieties: Introduction to different types of coffee beans such as Arabica, Robusta, and Liberica. Learn the basics of coffee processing methods including washed and natural coffees.

• Espresso & Coffee Preparation: Understand how to pull a perfect espresso shot by mastering grinding, tamping, and extraction. Learn how to steam milk to create the smooth, velvety texture required for a traditional Italian cappuccino. You will also learn to make six classic beverages: Espresso, Espresso Macchiato, Americano, Cappuccino, Café Latte, and Latte Macchiato.

• Basic Latte Art: Focus on learning how to pour the perfect cappuccino with attention to the proper height of pouring, flow control, and wrist movement for a professional finish.

• Machine Maintenance: Learn the important steps for cleaning and maintaining your espresso machine, a key skill for both professional baristas and home users.

This course takes your barista skills to the next level by diving deeper into the art of coffee preparation, latte art, and tasting. Ideal for baristas seeking to refine their expertise in specialty coffee.

• Coffee Varietals: Gain detailed knowledge of coffee varieties like Typica, Bourbon, Geisha, and more. Explore their history, growing conditions, and how these factors influence flavor in the cup.

• Roasting & Processing: Understand different coffee processing methods such as natural, washed, and honey, along with their impact on flavor. Learn about roasting profiles and how they affect acidity, sweetness, and body in coffee.

• Introduction to Professional Coffee Tasting: Deepen your ability to evaluate coffee by understanding the body, acidity, bitterness, sweetness, and flavors in more complex profiles.

• Latte Art Practice: Build on basic latte art techniques with more advanced designs:

  • Heart: Perfect your foundation.

  • Tulip: Master this intricate multi-layer design for a professional finish.

  • ​Rosetta: Further develop your pouring skills to create the leaf pattern.

• Water Quality for Coffee: Learn how water chemistry influences espresso extraction and explore different water treatment methods like softeners and reverse osmosis.

To truly excel as a professional barista, mastering latte art is essential. Our Italian Barista Method's basic latte art class is designed to help you achieve just that. This course emphasizes hands-on practice, allowing you to perfect your technique and create stunning patterns that not only meet industry standards but also impress your clients. Join us to refine your skills, pass essential exams, and elevate your coffee creations to a whole new level!

A complete path that begins with the examination of the differences among the various brewing methods and the several different techniques.

Then, is the moment for the practice and the experiments, with the use of the refractometer and the tests about the main concepts of brewing: ideal cup, turbolence, TDS, and so on. For each tool (V60, Aeropress, Chemex, French press) we do many practical tests, also varying the parameters as grinding, temperature, paper or metal filters, and so on. All with a selection of different specialties and farm coffee…

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Do you want to enter the fascinating world of professional coffee tasting? Do you want to become a sommelier, a professional taster, maybe aiming for a Q-grader career?

It's a complex journey, that begin learning about our sensory organs and recognizing the feelings that they send to us.

So you learn to smell and recognize, with a selection of aromas, the sensations that the different varieties of coffee bring to our nose. Then is the time of taste, to recognize and evaluate technically (with different water-solution) bitter, acidic, body, aromatic and other sensations that coffee can give us.

At this point coffee, tests in cupping and espresso, to apply our knowledge to the bean we love most!

A course designed to give the bases of the roasting and blending technique for the Italian espresso.

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A very busy day to learn how the roasting interacts with coffee: how to enhance the body, aroma and taste and how to build the blend we want to offer to our customers. A large section of the course is devoted to cupping and tasting techniques, because tasting is the real bookmark of our experience!

During the course we begin from the evaluation of the green coffee, then how to choose the roasting machine for different uses. Then we examine the various phases and profiles of the roasting process and how they affect the characteristics of the roasted coffee. After we proceed with practical exercises with final cupping of the roasted beans.