Green coffee SCA certification in Italy

At the end of our coffee route we always give to our participants the possibility to book SCA (former SCAE) certifications of Roasting, Barista, Brewing and Sensory Foundation (do you want to know what is it SCA/SCAE Specialty Coffee Association? Check our page here).

During our five days coffee route course we do not certify the Green coffee area, that is more specialised and really interesting just for people who want to know coffee in a very deep and professional way.

In the course, linked with the SCA certification we will lead the participants in a highly professional manner to discover all the key concepts surrounding the green coffee: plant growth , harvesting, processing drupes, transportation, storage until the arrival of in roasting coffee. It will be a busy day that will alternate the theoretical part practical tests for classification of green coffee and tasting in cupping.

Green coffee moisture measurement

The course is valid for certification SCAE Green Foundation graduate of Coffee Diploma System.

This is the complete program:

• The botanics of coffee, Arabica and Canephora
• The origins of Coffea
• The countries where the coffee plant can grow
• The world production of coffee
• The cultivation of coffee: the plantations and the harvest
• The drupes processes: natural, washed, pulped natural
• The drying of coffee: patio, african beds, mechanical
• The removal of the parchment
• The classification of green coffee
• The transport and storage of green coffee
• The certifications related to green coffee (Utz, Fairtrade …)
• The caffeine and decaffeinated coffee
• The use of sieves to classify green coffee
• The moisture measurement of green coffee beans
• A glimpse into the Brazilian Cupping

For the next courses, for program and costs check this page or contact us at: [email protected]

Green coffee selection in SCA course

A course about  green coffee, ideal to explore the most of all aspects related to the processing of more distant to us coffee, the ones that take place before the arrival of beans in our roasters. From the plant to the plantation, the processing stations of the green coffee up to the selection and delivery of the bags.

In Florence in our school Espresso Academy we will organize a two-day course, taught by  AST SCAE Marco Cremonese, who will lead the participants in a professional training course on green coffee. It is a course dedicated to Barista Coffee Roasters and professionals who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the world of green coffee. They will be two very intense days.

The course is valid for certification SCAE Green Coffee Certificate of Intermediate System.

Finding defects in green coffee beans

This is the complete program:

• The botanical origin of coffee
• Why botanical is important?
• Coffees from all over the world
• The classification of coffee plant species
• The production of coffee
• The importance of soil preserving
• The coffee processing
• The washed method
• The natural method
• The pulped natural and honey method
• The coffee drying
• The removal of the parchment
• The selection of green coffee The coffee grading.
• The green coffee market, contracts
• The storage and transport of green coffee
• The certifications of green coffee and the socio-economic factors
• The decaffeination, swiss water methods and other methods
• The use of the sieves, practical test of grading by sizes
• The moisture meter of green coffee, practical tests of moisture measurement.
• Practical exercises of taste in cupping

For the next courses, for program and costs check this page or contact us at: [email protected]

With Marco, the cosmopolitan group of the five days coffee course route…

7th of February.  A new row of courses have impacted our school for the five days coffee course route from the 6th to the 11th of Febrauary, with the last day dedicated to SCA (SCAE+ SCAA) certifications of Roasting and Blending held by our Authorized Trainer Marco Cremonese.

Also to this course, as usual, a lot of guys from all over the world, including four”I’ll be coffee shop owner…” Olivera from Croatia, Stephanie from Costa Rica, Hyerim From Korea and Joseph and Youssef, from Beirut!

And in spring great news are arriving: the Green coffee course and the Espresso machine technician course, in collaboration with Elektra!

Roasting the coffee samples for cupping in the farm.

29th of November.     We are not writing nothing in this diary since a too long time, but for a good reason! We have been involved in a new fantastic adventure, the trips into the very roots of the coffee origin, the journeys at the discover of the coffee countries and the coffee plantations. We have been in Vietnam, leading our group, from the 18th to the 28th of November, and we will be in Honduras from the 19th to the 31 of January!

But it is a back and forth, because if we are travelling to the coffee, the coffee is travelling to us. For the first time, in the five days coffee and barista complete course that we are having in this days, we have a cool couple of guys from Sri Lanka; they are opening a “third wave” coffee shop in their country, where the coffee culture so far has not been very developed, but is growing! Yes!!

Yes, in the coffee plantation there is to work a lot!

Class, even in the plantation!

SIBOS, the coffee exhibition in Geneve

26th of September. Our school still go deeper and deeper into the coffee world. Thanks to the Authorized SCAE Trainer Marco Cremonese, the guy who roasts our coffee specialities, we will hold the first Green Coffee course and certification October the 10th, 2016… and we are writing these notes from Geneva, where we are taking part to the Sibos exhib, a real dive in coffee expertise!

During these days, by the way, we have held nine SCAE exams, with great results. Good group!!

The moment of the cupping coffee course

A sip of cold brew coffee?

Latte art during the barista course

What do you think about the tulip?

Ready with the V60 coffee!

And…. Coffee course Diplomas ceremony!!!

The new edition of our barista course in Italy

19th of July,

Today, the new five days course “coffee route” bring us new friends and new stories!

We have the two sisters Murooj and Sawsan, that in Bahrain own and run coffeeshops and kiosks into the campus of the local university.

We have Hanseok (Andy) from Korea, that is fascinated by the coffee and is getting SCAE certificates...

We have Alex, a Bulgarian who is living in United States, so in love for coffee to create a barista “trench” at home that is much better of the one of many real coffee shops!

And again and again, more people, more stories but the same passion: coffee!

Is great day for our school. Today we can celebrate the arrive of Annalisa, our new teacher ready to follow our new COFFEE & BAR FLORENCE TOUR, the new course in the fantastic stage offered by the very center of Florence.

Also today we have had a so nice gift, a greetings card signed (and dedicated) by all participants to the most recent “Five days coffee route”

Thank you, to everybody, and welcome Annalisa!

Our new teacher Annalisa!

The last day: flowers and sweet!!

Greetings card after the course!!