SCA Sensory Skills Intermediate is a specialized coffee skills program designed to help industry professionals further their tasting capabilities. With targeted instruction and exercises, this program helps bridge the gap between beginner and expert-level tasting, ensuring that users can confidently assess, analyze, and articulate all aspects of specialty coffee. With this course, based on the skills learned in the Foundation Course, you will learn to demonstrate the basic concepts of sensory science in the analysis of aroma, flavor, taste and body differences in a variety of coffee. You will learn a variety of test methodologies and practice calibration on the SCA cupping form. It will examine the basic elements necessary to develop a sensory program in your company and apply the basic concepts of sensory science to analyze the differences in aroma, flavor and body in coffee.
From acids to extraction; The SCA wheel of flavors up to triangulations, Intermediate Coffee Sensory Skills presents the necessary tools to analyze the flavor of coffees and evaluate them in a careful way, ensuring that the best product reaches the consumer. By building a vocabulary of taste descriptions and adhering to cupping protocols, students will rapidly develop world-class sensory skills along with our Authorized Instructor and our Certified Q-Grader.
The class will last 2 days from 9am-4pm each day including snacks and refreshments. Coffea School provides lunch. At the end of this 2-day course learners will take the practical test and a written exam online. After passing the exam, students will earn a certificate from Specialty Coffee Association in Sensory Skills Intermediate.
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Once you have booked and your payment is confirmed, we will begin the process of preparing your class. It takes time, effort and coffee materials to have everything ready for you to attend this course.
These courses have limited seats and sell out or require minimum enrollment in order to be held; canceling the course would therefore mean preventing other students from attending.
You can reschedule 20 or more days before the start of your course.
You may request a refund 20 or more days before the start of the course LESS A 20% FEE.
Within 20 days from the start of your course, rescheduling or cancellations are no longer possible.
