Coffee Tasting Class Online/Coffee Sensory SCA Online
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The certified course for those who want to taste coffee with a professional approach!
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Why choose us?
- We focus exclusively on coffee training — it's our specialty!
- Our trainers are in-house experts and always available to support you.
- We’re the only ones offering an IBC-accredited diploma and internationally recognized SCA certification.
- We don’t just do online courses — every year, over 1,300 students attend our in-person classes
Who is this course for?
- Are you a coffee pro looking to sharpen your tasting skills? Our coffee tasting class online will help you tell the difference between roast aromas and enzymatic ones, master the coffee flavor wheel, and so much more!
- Love specialty coffee and want to taste like a pro? This coffee tasting course will teach you the cupping method, the go-to technique for evaluating coffee quality, processing, and flavor profiles—just like a real coffee sommelier!
- Need a recognized certification for your career? Our coffee appreciation course gives you access to official SCA coffee sensory or IBC exams so you can level up your credentials in the coffee world.
Is one of your loved ones a coffee enthusiast?
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What you will learn in the coffee tasting class online / SCA Sensory Course
What do we actually taste in coffee?
How taste, smell, and touch work together in coffee tasting
Recognizing acidity, bitterness, and sweetness in coffee
Mastering the coffee flavor wheel.
Understanding sugar browning, enzymatic aromas, and coffee defects
Exploring different body types: rough, syrupy, silky, and more!
How to perform a coffee cupping class like a pro
Using the SCA tasting sheet
Understanding the SCA Coffee Value Assessment
Tasting and evaluating espresso coffee
Do you need more information?
The course trainers and our staff are at your disposal to answer any questions or to send you a free trial chapter. Contact us!
YOUR TRAINER FOR THIS COURSE
Robert Brinck
- Robert is a trainer at Espresso Academy, an IBC Authorized Certifier and an SCA Authorized Trainer.
- Specialized in every aspect of the coffee world, he focuses on green coffee, roasting, brewing, and latte art
- He collaborates as a consultant for companies and international projects, including La San Marco.
Certified coffee tasting class online
- This Coffee tasting online always includes a certified diploma from Espresso Academy, a school present in over 30 countries.
- The course covers the SCA Coffee Sensory Skills Foundation program. If interested, you can take the official exam through a specific procedure.
- You can also take the Italian Barista Certificate (IBC) exam via video call with our trainers.
Student says...
I left there very happy.
Overall, I cam only recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn about coffee machines and have fun along the way.
Highly,highly, highly recommend.
From the very first email, Cristina was so friendly, knowledgable and welcoming that she put my mind at rest and showed me that Espresso Academy know exactly what they are doing.
I booked my flights, my accommodation, and told the team I was coming for the course!
I could not recommend these guys enough - they are knowledgable, friendly and absolutely professional. I learned so much in such an engaging, interesting and thorough way that I have come home and been able to apply my knowledge immediately - starting my own small business in the UK.
The course leader - Robert - is so kind, welcoming and full of knwoledge - but most importantly he is an excellent teacher, delivering the information in an easy to understand way to a mix of abilities in the class.
I met some fantastic people and have made some friendships for life - and for even more joy, you get to stay in Florence when you're visiting for a course and what a beautiful city to stay in!
Thank you for such a wonderful experience, and I hope to come back and visit again in the future :)
I would also like to particularly commend Robert, our teacher, who has managed to show me in a very short amount of time a wealth of accessible and comprehensible information on a difficult subject. He is awesome, poised, didactic, knowledgeable, approachable and generally very pleasant to be around.
Milk art.
Are you interested in the course?
The coffee tasting online class includes:
- 6 hours of course
- 10 chapters
- Watch it with no limits, when you want, how you want, forever
- Manual and slides used during the course
- Coffee flavor wheel and related Lexicon
- Cupping tasting sheet for SCA specialty evaluation
- IBC recognized certificate
- SCA Coffee Value Assessment protocol
- If you visit us in Italy free practical training in class
- Free calls with the trainer
Do you need more infos?
Request a free Chapter, so you can better evaluate it! Send us an email with your request
Online tasting coffee course program:
Chapter 01 -Intro
Professional tasting often frightens, one does not feel capable of tasting, and of smelling. In reality, tasting is an objective science in which we will analyze, break down and measure the sensations transmitted by the product.
Chapter 02 - Sensorial Analysis
What are the variables that can affect a specific coffee tasting? Why is tasting in cupping considered more indicative than tasting in espresso? How do we control the variables that can influence our judge?
Chapter 03 -The Five Tastes
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour and umami. These are the main tastes that we can perceive. What do they come from in coffee and how can we distinguish them?
Chapter 04 - Aromas in Coffee
From aromatic molecules to melanoidins: why can coffee have aromas ranging from jasmine to moldy earth? We examine the entire aromatic range of coffee and learn to classify it according to the SCAA standard
Chapter 05 - Tactile Sensations
The body is often considered, especially in espresso, a fundamental quality of coffee. But the body can not be only defined as full-bodied or watery. In this section we work on understanding how to be more precise: from silky to rough to syrupy ....
Chapter 06 - Choosing the right protocol
A tasting protocol must be functional to its purpose. Do we want to evaluate the quality and price of a crop? Do we want to evaluate the blend that we will propose to a market? Do we want to evaluate a specialty coffee with the SCAA tasting card?
Chapter 07 - The Cupping Protocol
The word "cupping" in the technical language of coffee defines the professional coffee tasting protocol, the one used to define the price of a crop, to evaluate the tasting score and to define a specialty coffee ...
Chapter 08 - Setting up a Cupping Table
To be functional and replicable, the cupping table must be organized with a precise setting. From the intensity of the light to the color of the cups. Let's find out all this, and let's not forget that the cupping table also has its own etiquette ...
Chapter 09 - Tasting Espresso
The technical coffee tasting is carried out in espresso mainly to evaluate the final product, also in blend. Let's see with which protocols, from the evaluation of the cream to the balancing, and with which tasting cards
Do you want a complete training?
This course is also included in the "Roaster" online course package which includes the online courses:
Coffee Cupping and Tasting Course
Coffee Roasting and Blending Course
Green Coffee Course
All three courses in one package, with unlimited viewing and discount of 30% from 377€ to 262€!
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Coffee Cupping and Tasting online Course
Directly from home, no needing journeys, bureaucracy and costs. Even in this way is possible to learn solid foundations for your green coffee knowledge with the online course of Espresso Academy.
The course is the starting point of the fascinating world of professional coffee tasting. She first step for who want to become a coffee sommelier, a professional taster, maybe even aiming a Q-grader career.
It's a 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.
Even in a theoretical course, the use of the SCAA coffee wheel will allow us to get the best from this course.
The online version offers several added values...
- Very easy to access: you have simply to connect to the link we send you and everything is done!
- Super-complete theoretical part, with screen sharing of slides, photos and graphic with the trainer
- No problem for the practical part. We use two mobile cameras during the course, so you can follow every detail.
- Possibility to private free sessions with the trainer to evaluate together your project
- Manuals included in the price sent at the end of the course
Coffee Cupping and Tasting video course
Do you can't take a day off from work, your pace doesn't allow you to find a day to follow the online coffee course? No problem, the Espresso Academy trainers have prepared a Sensory coffee video course for you: same content as the online course, but to watch whenever you want, maybe in the evening or on your free day.
Do you still want a comparison with the trainer ? No problem, included in the price of the video course there is the possibility of organizing a meeting with the trainer to clarify all doubts without leaving your home.
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Why Espresso Academy?
- 1500+ students from all over the world at our Italian headquarters
- All courses, from basic to the most professional ones taught in English by certified trainers
- 30+ branches around the world
- #1 school in the world on Tripadvisor and Google
- The highest number of SCA, LAGS and IBC certified students
- And… we are in Florence, a city worth visiting
