Coffee Tasting - Professional

Ready to take your coffee intellegence to the next level? Join this coffee tasting for pros in San Marcos! This tasting class is designed for coffee professionals and enthusiasts who already have some experience with brewing, roasting, and tasting coffee. We will take it up a notch here with some intensive activities that will challenge your sensory skills and help you detect the finest differences.

This is a full-day event. The objective of this workshop is to strengthen your skills, build confidence, develop a sense of criticism, and become a better coffee professional.

Attending the Advanced and Specialty Coffee Tasting workshop previously will greatly help.

What you'll learn

• Activity 1: Rank the 5 basic taste solutions from least to most intense.
• Activity 2: Taste a mixture of basic taste solutions and identify which ones are part of the mix.
• Activity 3: Train and categorize the different florals and spices, which are some of the hardest notes to find in coffee.
• Activity 4: We will use different ingredients to illustrate the differences between bitterness, sweetness, and sourness of the same ingredient. We will also discuss the importance and modulation of sweetness, texture, and aftertaste while cooking some sugars and experiencing the rate of Maillard reaction and caramelization.
• Break: Lunch included.

Activity 5: Cupping of the same coffee roasted differently, modulating time and temperature:

• Short-High
• Short-Low
• Standard
• Long-High
• Long-Low
• Activity 6: Cupping
• Activity 7: Cupping with different water, using the same coffee to identify and discuss the importance of minerals in coffee. We will fix the alkalinity and play with Calcium and Magnesium ions to taste their impact on the cup.
• Break
• Activity 8: The final test is to identify the odd cup in a triangle. This exercise will recap all the activities we covered through a 4-triangle test. You'll also learn some techniques I have developed over the last 5 years of competition.

Finally, your class will finish with a Q&A where you can get all of your lingering coffee tasting questions answered!

For coffee professionals and serious enthusiasts. The advanced class is recommended as a pre-requisite.
 

• A free bag of coffee
• The Memli Water kit
• A cupping spoon
• Some goodies