Barista Skills Professional

Hone the key barista skills of a high-level coffee professional!

Successful lead baristas and barista trainers depend on a thorough understanding of their coffee, milk, equipment, workflow, and drink menu, as well as a mastery of the skills required to pull the very best out of each. In this intensive 3-1/2 day hands-on professional barista training class, we’ll learn and test the advanced skills and detailed knowledge essential for professional baristas:

• Explore the impact of coffee growing conditions, processing, and variety/cultivar on the finished brew
• Refine sensory evaluation of brewed coffee sweetness, bitterness, acidity, and freshness
• Develop strategies for efficiently dialing-in different coffees and optimizing brew recipes
• Evaluate the impact of various dosing, distribution, tamping, brewing pressure, and brewing temperature
• Refine workflows to maximize quality, efficiency, and consistency when preparing complex, multi-drink orders
• Explore milk chemistry, behavior, and storage
• Refine milk steaming and pouring techniques for excellent latte art
• Analyze cost and profitability of espresso beverages
• Explore water chemistry, measurement, and treatment

This course builds on the brewing, steaming, measurement, and analysis competencies developed in Barista Skills Intermediate, so successful completion of that course is required prior to attending.

This course is scheduled by request. Please contact us to review eligibility and discuss upcoming class dates.