The Advanced Coffee and Barista Class is designed to provide you with a comprehensive immersion into coffee, covering everything from the basics to latte art.
This course is perfect for those seeking a professional, up-to-date approach to coffee, aiming for international IBC certification, and who identify as true home baristas.
During this advanced class, you will:
- Understand the concepts of TDS and extraction. Using the refractometer we will learn how to…
- … change the extraction parameters according to the coffee varietal and blend we want to use
- How to taste espresso in a professional way, starting to build your “tasting skills library”
- How to make latte art, unmissable for any barista and source of fun for every coffee lover!
- Setting your espresso machine: the volumetric system, the temperature, pressure and so on…
This course allows access to an international certification, widespread and recognized in the world: Italian Barista Certification
Course Curriculum
- Introduction to professional coffee tasting: body, acidity, bitterness, sweetness and flavours.
- The use of the refractometer in extraction measurement. The concept of TDS and extraction.
- Espresso tasting exercises : commodity arabica e robusta, coffee blends, caffè specialty.
- Grinding setting exercises with dose and extraction weighing, preparatory to the IBM exam.
- Not just espresso: brewing, filter coffee and pour over, practical tests
- Worldwide trends: babyccino, flat white, cortado and other preparations.
- Latte art basics: height of pouring, flow control and movement of the wrist
- Practice latte art base: the heart
- Basic latte art practice: the figure of the leaf or rosetta
- Basic latte art practice: the tulip
- Basic setting and fixing of the espresso coffee machine: showers, volumetric, temperature
Eventual exam for the Italian Barista Certificate advanced certification (this exam involves a quite demanding speed test, any participation in this course will therefore be evaluated during the course according with the trainer)
