Single Origins & Creating Blends
Please bring samples of your own single origin coffee products and of your roasted blends to the course. This program has proven to be very helpful to improve existing products and to develop exciting new roasting profiles and blends.
Day One: Creating Unique Flavors with Single Origins
Day One of this highly interactive coffee course is dedicated to the development of roast profiles and brewing recipes for Single Origin coffees. We will review strategies to establish Direct Trade relationships with producers. The course will teach you how to purchase and select Single Origin beans and how to establish the right quality standards.
Additionally, we will discuss a fair amount of coffee brewing theory: measuring total dissolved solids (TDS), extraction yield, brew strength, temperatures and turbulence.
Day Two: Blending Theory, Blend Development for Pour Over, Drip and for Espresso
The second day is entirely dedicated to espresso blending techniques and protocols for the creation of drip-filter and espresso blends. What are the advantages and trade-offs involved in creating blends? How can you best strategize your blends to maximize quality while managing your inventory? How do you know when to use a coffee as a single origin and when to use it in a blend?
Espresso blends will be tasted as espresso shot and as milk drink. We will also do a thorough review of barista protocols for espresso blend development.
Additional Topics:
•Review of tasting language and cupping protocols
•Tasting key components for drip filter 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 drip filter blends
•Roasting exercises
•Tasting espresso beverages: participants 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
Single Origins & Creating Blends
Course Fee: $ 795.00
(includes lunches)
Lead Trainer: Willem Boot or Daniel Humphries and Jodi Dowell
Maximum Class Size: 10
The Single Origins & Creating Blends course has the objective to send you home with many fresh ideas and concepts around the challenging task of developing new products and creating blends for drip-filter, espresso and other brewing devices.
We really encourage you to take your own single origin coffees and blends; we can put them to the test during a “blind” cupping.
During the course you will learn the underlying fundamentals of single origin selection and blend creation.
Creating blends is a diligent task of sourcing the right green beans, applying distinct roasting protocols and blending the coffees at the right quantity, with the ultimate goal to create synergies in the cup.
The best blends have created long lasting success to many of our clients and you can be one of them!
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