SHB CAFFE

education

BASIC ROASTING COURSE


 

DURATION

8 hours

REQUIREMENTS

Previous tasting knowledge.

GOAL

Learn how to buy and roast your own coffee.

MODALITY

* In Person (Spain, Mexico)

* Online

In this course participants will learn the fundamentals of coffee roasters, how they work and what flavor combinations they can develop based on their individual engineering. They will also learn to consistently and confidently operate such roasters as well as basic information on how to buy green coffee without defects that may impact flavor and/or roasting performance.

Participants become very familiar with roasting profiles by analyzing temperature graphs and studying what is happening on a physical and chemical level during the roast. Ultimately participants will be expected to copy a roasting profile, also known as a roasting curve, in order to ensure quality and consistency in the specific flavors being developed.

  • Syllabus
    Principles of heat transfer
  • Types of roasters: advantages and disadvantages
  • Safety basics
  • Basic types of coffee beans for sourcing: species and varieties
  • Physical defects of green coffee and its sensory impact
  • Basic roasting curve and its phases
  • Roasting in high-tech hybrid equipment: washed, natural, robusta and arabica
  • Typical roast defects
  • Tasting of roasted coffees