Please bring your own roasted blends and individual green coffee components to the course. This program has proven to be very helpful to improve existing products and to develop exciting new blends.

Day One: Blending Theory and Drip-filter Blend Development
  Day One of this highly interactive coffee course is dedicated to the development of coffee blends for drip-filter machines and other brewing devices like: hand-pour-over, french press, vacuum-pot, aero-press, Technivorm etc.

  We will discuss a fair amount of coffee brewing theory: measuring total dissolved solids (tds), extraction yield, brew strength, temperatures, turbulence.

Additional Topics:
•Review of tasting language and cupping protocols
•Tasting key components for dripfilter blends
•Triangulation and blind tasting exercises: cupping of various popular “low” and “high” notes
•Cupping of Breakfast blends and darker roasted blends
•Review of roasting techniques for dripfilter blends
•Roasting exercises


Day Two: Espresso Blending Practices
  The second day is entirely dedicated to espresso blending techniques and protocols. We start the day by tasting various espresso blends from established, well known roasting companies: Black Cat, Dancing Goats, Hair Bender, Major Dickinson’s and more.
  Espresso blends will be tasted as espresso shot and as milk drink. We will do a thorough review of barista protocols for espresso blend development.
  Roasting and blending protocols will be analyzed and discussed in detail.

Additional Topics:
•Tasting espresso beverages: participant and competitor coffees
•Espresso blending theory
•Roasting for espresso blends; fine tuning acidity, preventing taints and enhancing sweetness
•Blending exercises for espresso blends
•Tasting espresso beverages: participant and competitor coffees
•Green coffee sourcing strategies

Art of Creating Blends

Course Fee: $ 750.00

(includes lunches)

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