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Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Duration: 8-9 hours (1 day)
Credits Earned: 5
Certificate included
This course is designed to help you understand how we taste coffee and how to evaluate it professionally. As your trainer, my goal is to build your confidence in identifying flavors, aromas, and key sensory attributes while teaching you how to apply structured tasting methods used in the specialty coffee industry. By the end of the course, you will understand not just what you are tasting, but why you are tasting it — and how to communicate it clearly.
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1,800 AED "excl. VAT"
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The SCA Sensory Skills Foundation course is designed for coffee enthusiasts, aspiring coffee professionals, and baristas who want to build a strong foundation in coffee sensory evaluation and professional coffee tasting.
This hands-on specialty coffee course introduces learners to the science of sensory perception and how human senses influence the way coffee is experienced. Through guided tasting exercises, practical cupping sessions, and sensory calibration activities, participants will develop the confidence to identify flavors, aromas, acidity, sweetness, bitterness, body, and other key sensory attributes found in coffee.
The course also introduces learners to structured tasting methodologies used throughout the specialty coffee industry, including the SCA cupping protocol and the SCA Coffee Value Assessment framework. By the end of the course, participants will not only understand what they are tasting, but also how to communicate coffee characteristics clearly and professionally.
Course Focus:
• Coffee Sensory Evaluation Fundamentals
• Coffee Aroma & Flavor Identification
• Acidity, Sweetness, Body & Bitterness Analysis
• SCA Cupping Methodology
• Coffee Communication & Flavor Language
• Specialty Coffee Sensory Training
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Coffee sensory evaluation is one of the most important skills in specialty coffee. Understanding how to identify and communicate flavor allows coffee professionals to improve consistency, quality control, customer experience, and overall coffee understanding.
Whether you are working in a café, roasting coffee, buying green coffee, or simply passionate about specialty coffee, sensory skills provide the foundation for making informed coffee decisions and understanding coffee quality more deeply.
No previous sensory experience is required. This course is designed for beginners and individuals wanting to develop foundational coffee tasting skills.
Yes. The course includes practical training in SCA-style coffee cupping and sensory evaluation methods.
The SCA Flavor Wheel is a specialty coffee industry tool used to identify, describe, and communicate coffee flavor characteristics consistently.
This course is ideal for baristas, coffee enthusiasts, café professionals, roasters, and anyone interested in improving coffee tasting and sensory evaluation skills.
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Start time: 10:00 a.m. UTC+04
End time: 05:00 p.m. UTC+04
Directions: Al Quoz - Al Quoz Industrial Area 3 - Dubai / Busybees Warehouse
Phone: 0553061945
Email: Sherryl@theorecoffee.com
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