Our latest coffee route just finished with our bravest students of the week who decided to also participate to the Sensory and Roasting SCA Certificates.

Their journey started last week with the green coffee course to learn about the origins, processing and selection of the green beans.

The second day we talked about tasting, and did some interesting practical exercises to improve our ability to recognize aromas and tastes and finally describing a cup of espresso and an introduction to cupping.

Then we spent two days learning some italian barista tricks and practicing latte art in our Basic and Advanced Barista Course which finished with 11 students taking the SCA Barista Foundation Exam.

In the Coffee Shop Management Course Gabriele gave us some tips on how to spot a good location for our cafè and understand the needs of our targeted customers to keep our business running at full speed.

Helena came for a more coffee related course where we focused on the practical and theoretical aspects of extracting a good cup of coffee whether it’s in a french press, v60 or syphon or many other systems. Her Brewing Foundation Course was very helpful even for the espresso maniacs since the rules of extraction apply to every type of coffee.

The last course was the Roasting Foundation Course with Marco who taught us the basics (and some more advanced thing too) which will help any coffee entrepreneur to start practicing the art of roasting coffee to maybe open a future company, which is exactly what some of our students are planning to do and we will definitely be happy to support them in their projects.

The most important thing is that everyone was happy at the end of the week and we’ve made a lot of new friends from all over the world from Argentina to Hong Kong, Colombia, France, Lebanon, USA, Saudi Arabia, Holland, Bulgaria… Thank You to all our participants and we hope to see you again soon!!