The coffee sensory online course. Our second e-learning course is all about how we can express our impressions. Hosted on our Kaffeemacher e-learning platform, this course follows the Home Barista Online Course from April. In over two hours of video footage, texts, and slides, we will train with you on how to analyze, understand, and describe coffees.
Philipp Schallberger leads the course and is supported by Benjamin Hohlmann in the cupping exercises. Together, they not only share their approach to analyzing coffees but also provide sensory placement for the most characteristic coffees—describing them and giving you plenty of vocabulary that you can use for coffee descriptions from now on.
It is easy to say what you like and what you don't. However, it is truly challenging to describe exactly why you like something or not.
In this course, we will learn a structure together that we can use to interpret any coffee. We will also expand the vocabulary we can use to describe coffee.
We express all of this with our new evaluation sheet. An instrument designed to help us articulate sensory impressions.
Philipp introduces you to coffee sensory analysis, garnishing the whole thing with anecdotes from the world of coffee slurping and connecting it with practical exercises.
In the course, we will learn how to set up a cupping so that you can easily taste coffee at home in a structured way. But the espresso tasting is also essential: for evaluating espresso, we use the method of the World Barista Championships.
Kaffeemacher coffees are discussed
This course is continuously updated, as we will regularly discuss our new filter coffees in detail. We will describe them using an evaluation sheet, and if you buy the same coffee yourself, we will discuss this coffee together digitally. This allows you to calibrate with us and understand exactly how we evaluate coffees.
Online knows no borders
We had been envisioning a digital range of course content for a long time. The second lockdown in Basel then meant that our coffee school was closed until April 2021.
The online offering does not replace an in-person course at our academy. But it does create an opportunity to dive deep into the world of coffee, to start practicing and learning, or to deepen or repeat what you have already learned.
For us, it is another tool to stay in touch with you and share our coffee knowledge and our enthusiasm for good coffee.
The beauty of it is that we can also offer courses for coffee enthusiasts from Northern Germany or Graz in Austria. Because online knows no borders. And because we enjoy it so much, one or two courses might even be added in other languages.
We wish you happy experimenting and have fun with our online sensory course!
