The Coffee Sensory Analysis Online Course. Our second e-learning course is all about how we express our impressions. On our Kaffeemacher e-learning platform, this course follows the Home Barista online course from April. In more than two hours of video footage, text, and slides, we'll train you how to analyze, understand, and describe coffees.
Philipp Schallberger leads the course and will be supported in the cupping exercises by Benjamin Hohlmann. Together, they will not only share their approach to analyzing coffees, but also identify the most characteristic coffees sensorially—describe them and provide you with a wealth of vocabulary that you can use to describe coffee from now on.
It's easy to say what you like and what you don't. However, it's really challenging to describe exactly why you like or dislike something.
In this course, we'll learn a structure that we can use to interpret any coffee. We'll also expand the vocabulary we can use to describe coffee.
We then express the whole thing using our new evaluation form, a tool designed to help us express the sensory impressions.
Philipp introduces you to coffee sensory perception, spices things up with anecdotes from the world of coffee sipping, and combines this with practical exercises.
In this course, we'll learn how to set up a cupping session so you can easily and systematically taste coffee at home. We'll also include espresso tasting: we'll use the World Barista Championship method to evaluate espresso.
Coffee maker coffees are discussed
This course will be continually updated, as we will be discussing our new filter coffees in detail. We will describe them using an evaluation sheet, and if you purchase the same coffee for yourself, we will discuss it together digitally. This way, you can calibrate yourself with us and understand exactly how we evaluate coffees.
Online knows no boundaries
We've long envisioned offering digital course content. The second lockdown in Basel forced our coffee school to remain closed until April 2021.
The online offering doesn't replace a face-to-face course at our academy. However, it does provide an opportunity to delve deeply into the world of coffee and begin practicing and learning, or to deepen or review what you've learned.
For us, it's another tool to stay in touch with you and share our coffee knowledge and enthusiasm for good coffee.
The great thing is that we can also offer courses for coffee enthusiasts from northern Germany or Graz, Austria. Because online knows no boundaries. And because we enjoy it so much, we might even add one or two courses in other languages to our offerings.
We hope you enjoy trying out our online sensory course and have fun!
