SCA PROFESSIONAL BARISTA

SCA Professional Barista Course in Barcelona
Take your barista skills to the next level with The Coffee Academy!
Have you already been working as a barista for more than a year and want to delve into the depths of espresso and the craft? Then the SCA Professional Barista course is for you. Designed to assess advanced skills and deepen your knowledge of the science behind the processes used by a professional barista, this course will enable you to master sophisticated tasting methodology and advanced extraction techniques.

Details of the SCA Professional Barista Course at The Coffee Academy
The SCA Professional Barista course is held at Cal Nomad, located at Carrer Marroc 160, Barcelona. This intensive three-day course runs from 09:30 to 17:00, in Spanish, and is designed for those with more than one year of coffee experience. Here is a summary of the course content:

- General knowledge: learn about density, variety and cultivation of coffee beans, processing methods, packaging and degassing.
- Space management and workflow: Optimize your work area for greater efficiency.
- Espresso grinder and machine components and safe use: Discover how to use and maintain your equipment properly.
- Espresso Process: From espresso recipes to calibration, dosing and cupping techniques.
- Espresso Sensory Analysis: Develop your ability to evaluate espresso quality, including organic acids and sensory balance.
- Milk Texturization: Learn about freshness, crema and ideal milk temperature, as well as the factors that affect milk quality and its ability to form crema, and delve into the art of more advanced figures.
- Espresso-based menu: Learn the most common beverages and how to prepare them correctly.
- Cleanliness and Safety: Maintain a clean and safe work environment.
- Water Quality: Understand how water quality affects the taste and performance of the machine, including measuring TDS, alkalinity, total hardness, pH and filtration systems.
- Customer Service and Coffee Management: Improve your customer service and the management of your establishment.
- Financial Concepts: Learn about costs and asset management.
- The SCA exam and certification have an additional cost of €100, which must be purchased separately.

Includes:

- Density, variety and cultivation of coffee beans.

- Processing, packaging and degassing methods.

- Space management and workflow.

- Preparation of espresso-based beverages: dosing, sieving, distribution of ground coffee particles and waste.

- Espresso machine: brewing temperature and pressure, boiler systems and pressure systems.

- Sensory analysis: Organic acids, sensory evaluation and balance.

- Milk: Composition, processing and how it affects coffee flavor, cream quality and stability.

- Factors affecting milk quality and its ability to form cream, proteolysis and lipolysis, effect of coffee acidity on milk, effect of heat on milk, SCA foam standards, SCA Latte Arte standards.

- Water quality: TDS measurement, alkalinity, total hardness, pH, water filtration, testing and filtration systems.

- Simple financial concepts of costs and assets.

Investment: 1.125,00€.
Additional certification: 100,00€.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

At The Coffee Academy, we strive to offer a high quality learning experience to all our students. Two weeks prior to the course, you will receive a confirmation email. If the minimum of three attendees is not reached, the course will be cancelled and a full refund will be issued.

We are committed to your satisfaction and will do our best to adapt to your needs and ensure that you get the maximum benefit from your experience with us.

Important: We are not responsible for third party purchases, such as flight or hotel reservations.

For any additional information or if you would like to take this course on a personalized basis, you can write to us at. [email protected].

Cancellation Policy

When you make the purchase of a course your place is automatically reserved, if you do not attend you leave out other people who would have liked to participate, here are the points of our cancellation policy:

- A 50% penalty is charged if the course is cancelled less than 15 days or 48 h before the course takes place, returning only half of the total purchase of the course.

- No money will be refunded if the student does not attend the course or notifies us in less than 48 hours.

- Once the date has been set, no changes can be made, except in case of force majeure (illness or accident).

- If for any reason of force majeure (illness, accidents ...) the student can not attend, you can be assigned a place in the next course, this change will be made only once, the money will not be refunded if the student does not attend the course.

- If you give any of our courses or workshops as a gift, this gift voucher will be valid for 12 months after the date of purchase.

- Our cancellation policy does not apply in case of illness or accident.



For any information, you can write to us at [email protected].