Coffee Tasting Online Class
Master coffee cupping from home with our Coffee Tasting Online Class led by SCA-certified experts.
Are you a coffee lover, do you know someone who spends every free second thinking about coffee? Our Coffee Tasting Online Course is the perfect fit!
Join Robert Brinck, resident trainer at Espresso Academy, as he guides you through the magical world of coffee tasting and cupping.
Directly on your sofa you will learn:
- How to distinguish coffee characteristics based on species, variety, and processing methods.
- How to spot defects in green coffee, filter coffee, or espresso.
- How to pick out the five key tastes—sweet, bitter, salty, sour, and umami—in every sip.
- How to identify and classify a wide range of coffee aromas, from floral jasmine to earthy tones.
- How to use the SCA tasting sheet (included in the course) like a pro.
- How to set up and follow a professional coffee cupping
129€ 155€ Your course with Espresso Academy quality!
The Tasting coffee online course 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
Still doubts about an online course?
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Is one of your loved ones a coffee enthusiast?
Gift them an Espresso Academy Online Course!
You’ll make them happy, and they’ll probably talk about coffee even more (but thank you with lots of amazing brews)!
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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
Your trainer - Robert Brinck
- Resident trainer at Espresso Academy, Robert is an AST SCA and authorized IBC trainer.
- Expert in coffee supply chain from green coffee selection to cupping and roasting.
- Consultant for international projects and coffee companies like La San Marco.
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
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This course and the related exam can be held online, live with the authorized trainer.
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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€!
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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