Taste Coffee Like A Pro

Elevate your daily coffee ritual by learning the step-by-step process that professionals use to evaluate coffee.

What you'll learn
Learn to evaluate and discuss coffee quality like a professional coffee taster
Get a step-by-step guide to professional coffee cupping (tasting)
Discover 8 ways coffee experts determine if coffee is good
Understand - and describe in your own words - each characteristic of coffee
Learn the secrets to brewing excellent pour-over coffees
Receive guidelines on how coffee should be bought, stored and ground
Learn to set up and host a coffee tasting for work or with friends
Develop techniques to train your palate
Get access to our exclusive coffee tasting tools!
Requirements
A desire to learn to evaluate coffee at a professional level
Have access to a variety of coffees so you can practice your tasting skills
To learn to brew in pour-over methods, you will need to practice with a common brewing method like a French Press, V60, Aeropress.
Timer (the one on your phone is fine)
Cupping glasses (can be any 8 oz or 220ml glass or cup)
Coffee cupping spoon (or a deep soup spoon)
Description
When you understand coffee the way professional coffee tasters do, you open up a world of taste experiences. You will deepen your love for coffee, know why you prefer a certain coffee, and you will confidently converse with others about the characteristics you find in your cup. You can develop those essential skills with me. I'm a university professor of coffee, the founder of the Latin American Coffee Academy, and the author of Permission to Slurp, a book on coffee tasting.Who is this course for?This course is designed to teach coffee lovers as well as people entering the coffee industry to taste coffee like the professionals do. Why is this skill important?If you're starting out in the coffee industry, you need to master the ability to evaluate coffee quality. Then you can make decisions about which coffees to purchase, how they should be brewed, and how they should be priced.  You can use this course to teach others in your team at your coffee shop, online retail shop, or any other type of coffee company about coffee quality. If you're a coffee enthusiast, I'll guide you to deepen your appreciation of coffee and share your new knowledge and skills by hosting a coffee-tasting activity with friends and family.If you have ever felt like you don’t know how to taste coffee and detect the aromas and flavors, that's about to change. It’s easier than you think, and I’ll guide you to improve your tasting skills and memory.What will you learn in this coffee-tasting course?This course will give you the knowledge and the practical suggestions to learn to understand coffee and coffee cupping (coffee cupping is the industry term for coffee tasting). The 22 lectures in this course teach you how to purchase coffee, brew it in pour-over methods, store and grind it the right way, and how to brew it for professional coffee cuppings. You'll learn essential ways to determine coffee quality and what goes on at coffee cuppings in the industry. In this dynamic 1.5-hour course you will:  Coffee tastingLearn to evaluate and discuss coffee quality like a professional coffee cupper (taster​)Get a step-by-step guide to professional coffee cupping (tasting)Learn to understand and describe each characteristic of coffeeGet activities to sharpen your coffee tasting skillsFind out 8 ways coffee experts determine the quality of coffee  Coffee brewingLearn the secrets to brewing excellent pour-over coffees​Learn to set up and host a coffee tasting (and brewing) session with friends or for work​  Foundational knowledge and skillsReceive guidelines on how coffee should be bought, stored, and groundDevelop techniques to train your palate​Get access to our exclusive coffee tasting tools!Why should you learn about coffee with a professor?Frankly, why would you want to learn with anyone but an expert? I live in a coffee-producing country (Colombia) and worked as a coffee professor at the prestigious La Sabana University until I started my own coffee academy, the Latin American Coffee Academy. I have taught people from every continent - even coffee professionals! - about coffee in Latin America. I have years of experience taking a complicated subject and making it easy and fun. That's why people call me The Coffee Lady (seriously, you can Google it).Try the course out to see why most of my students give me a 5-star rating! I'm always here to support you and to answer all of your coffee questions.What if you don't like coffee?Many of my students don't actually like coffee! But they recognize that learning about coffee is an essential life skill…and along the way, some of them learn to love the brew.What if you want to learn about how coffee is grown?Take a look at my From Coffee Plant to Your Coffee Cup course, also available on Udemy. It explores coffee cultivation, processing, roasting, and other factors that change the tastes in your cup.What if your English isn't perfect?My students live around the world and have learned English as a second language. So don't worry if your English isn't perfect - my students tell me the information I teach is easy to understand (and the videos have captions that I personally edited!). Also…hablo español, eu falo português, et je parle français.

Overview

Section 1: Why should you learn to evaluate your coffee like the pros do?

Lecture 1 Elevate your coffee experience…learn to taste coffee like a pro!

Lecture 2 Your instructor, coffee professor Karen Attman

Section 2: Get ready to do coffee tastings

Lecture 3 The foundation: Get ready to do coffee tastings

Lecture 4 How to brew coffee for a professional coffee tasting

Lecture 5 Why should you slurp your coffee?

Lecture 6 Download your essential coffee tasting tools

Section 3: How coffee professionals know if coffee is good

Lecture 7 Steps coffee professionals take when they cup coffee

Lecture 8 8 ways coffee professionals determine coffee quality

Lecture 9 Where do aromas and flavors in coffee come from?

Section 4: Characteristics of coffee

Lecture 10 The first two characteristics

Lecture 11 Characteristic #3 - The surprising one

Lecture 12 Characteristic #4 - The tough one to understand

Lecture 13 Characteristic #5 - This one is easier

Lecture 14 Characteristic #6 - The fun one

Lecture 15 Characteristic #7 - Bringing it all into harmony

Lecture 16 Characteristic #8 - The last one that lingers

Section 5: Practice your coffee tasting skills and organize a coffee tasting

Lecture 17 How to improve your coffee tasting memory

Lecture 18 Sharpen your coffee tasting skills

Lecture 19 How you can organize a coffee tasting with friends

Section 6: Brew Coffee that Would Impress your Barista

Lecture 20 Understanding coffee roasts, freshness, grinding, and how to store coffee

Lecture 21 Essential coffee tools, water temperature, and brew time

Lecture 22 Pour-over brewing methods and how to make the best coffee

Section 7: Continuing your coffee journey

Lecture 23 This is the end…and the beginning

Lecture 24 Tools to continue learning about coffee

Anyone entering the coffee industry who needs to understand coffee quality,People who want to have a deeper understanding of quality in food and beverages,Coffee lovers from around the world,Anyone who wants to share their knowledge of coffee through virtual or in-person coffee tastings