Barista Skills
The gold standard qualification for practical barista training for beginners is now available as a fully online course. Our course offers a unique format which includes live coaching and rigorous skills assessment for all attendees.
Introduction
Recording training videos
Check your equipment
A few quick questions..
What is espresso?
Choosing your coffee
Looking after your coffee
Quiz: An introduction to espresso
Naming of parts
Setting up your workstation
Choosing a recipe
Different strokes
Quiz: The recipe
Dose and distribute
Tamp
Insert and immediate brew
Putting it all together
Quiz: Making espresso
Tasting espresso
Bitter, sour, and dry
Setting grind size
Drinking, fast and slow
Setting the dose
Recap: Grind size and flavour
Quiz: Dialing in
Channelling
Programming volumetrics
Troubleshooting and mythbusting
Quiz: Perfecting your espresso
Milk steaming in theory
Milk steaming in practice
Pouring latte art
Milk troubleshooting
Microfoam
Quiz: Making milk drinks
The full cafe menu
Workflow, hygiene, and customer service
Quiz: Working in the cafe
Cleaning the machine
Quiz: Cleaning the machine
How to record your test
Introduction to Barista Skills Foundation
The flavour wheel
Cupping
The live session
The final quiz
After this course
Further reading
How did we do?