As much as we’d like it to be, incredible coffee isn’t as simple as pressing a button and letting the machine do the work. Our Barista School teaches you and your team how to become a barista with the skill and confidence to serve great tasting brews, every time. Our barista course empowers your team, teaching them how to improve your coffee quality, reduce wastage, and delight customers with a higher quality coffee experience.
What will you learn on our Barista Course?
The full barista training programme consists of six individual learning modules, which make up the SCA Coffee Skills Program, to train or upskill you and your team on every element of becoming a confident barista. For each module, we offer different levels of barista training from Foundation, to Intermediate, to Professional, so whatever your starting point you’ll be able to increase your knowledge and skills.
Each module of the course can be completed individually, with the full course programme including Introduction to Coffee, Barista Skills, Brewing, Green Coffee, Sensory Skills, and Roasting.
UK Barista Training Courses
Our Place or Yours?
With the right equipment set up, our certified Barista Trainers can come to you and conduct coffee training courses on-site across the UK. Or, if you are located near our Cardiff Roastery or London Showroom, you can take a day out and complete your training with us. Whatever suits you best. Learn about what a normal day for our barista trainers looks like here -> What’s Does a Barista Trainer Do?
Learn the Fundamentals of Coffee Brewing
From the basics of extraction, roast level and coffee origin to calibrating a coffee grinder for the perfect shot of espresso and perfecting your latte art, SCA training offers everything you need to improve your coffee offering starting with your staff. SCA barista training courses teach not only how to brew incredible coffee time and time again, but also to reduce wastage, explore a world of flavour and have meaningful conversations around coffee. Read this article to learn about how much barista training costs.
Introduction to Coffee – for beginners in specialty coffee, covering its history from Ethiopia to its current global status. It explores the coffee supply chain, quality factors, sensory analysis, roasting, freshness, brewing principles, and the importance of water quality and cleanliness. The course includes a cupping session and ends with an online exam.
Barista skills – covers essential practical skills for working behind an espresso bar, including setting the grinder, making espresso, foaming and texturing milk for cappuccinos, and creating latte art. It also addresses health and safety issues, customer service protocols, and basic business practices.
Brewing – focuses on various coffee brewing methods and the variables that impact coffee quality. Emphasising hands-on learning, the courses cover grind profiles, brewing techniques, coffee strength measurements, and coffee extraction charting.
Green Coffee – focuses on the evaluation, trade, and handling of green coffee. They cover topics such as botany, coffee farming, processing, grading, storage, transport, markets, certifications, contracts, and other related concepts and skills.
Sensory Skills – the evaluation of coffee and related products. These interactive courses cover sensory science, industry-specific protocols, common coffee sensory attributes, physiological sensory training, implementing sensory programs, consumer testing design, and their application in business.
Roasting – covers the roasting process, including the roast cycle, roast levels, identifying defects, and the physical changes beans undergo during roasting. They also address workspace management and lean production techniques.
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Learn More about SCA Barista Training
Download our free PDF brochure at the link below to learn more about:
- Pricing
- Course Structure
- Modules
- Course Length
- Accreditations
Our barista courses are designed for businesses and coffee professionals looking to improve coffee skills and proficiency behind the bar, and take their coffee teams to the next level. Whilst coffee hobbyists and enthusiasts are able to sign up, the SCA programme is primarily designed for coffee professionals and team leaders. The SCA barista courses are tailored to meet any level of experience and expertise thanks to the choice between foundation, intermediate and professional levels for each learning module.
The SCA modules are a globally recognised learning standard with coffee and food and beverage industries. Upon successful completion of the examination at the end of each learning module, learners will be provided with an industry recognised certificate of accreditation.
Our courses cost anywhere from £165 to £1,319 depending on the number of days, attendees, and course modules covered. The cost of certification is an additional £55 per person if you are looking to sit the examination at the end of the course. View more on pricing in our downloadable PDF.
Barista modules typically last a day each with foundation, intermediate and professional training courses lasting one, two and three days respectively.
For those looking to receive an accreditation and obtain SCA points, there are optional examinations at the end of each module.
There are 3 Levels of training available, each course adds points towards your SCA diploma which requires 100 points, once earnt, certifies the learner as an SCA coffee professional.
No. We definitely recommend at least one person on your team receives some level of barista training who can then teach others and uphold standards, whether that is a manager, head barista or the business owner. However, our company training courses are a fixed price for 1 to 4 people, so you'll get far more value enlisting up to four on the training course.
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