Foundation: this is a 3 day mandatory course for new students wanting to learn more or to standardize more experienced students. (required to advance). 

Classes include: Intro to SCI, Intro to Coffee, and SCI Sensory Foundation.

Torch Coffee Lab Yunnan - China

Foundation: this is a 3 day mandatory course for new students wanting to learn more or to standardize more experienced students. (required to advance). 

Classes include: Intro to SCI, Intro to Coffee, and SCI Sensory Foundation.

Torch Coffee Lab Yunnan - China

In this course you will learn:

• Specialty coffee and sensory evaluation of quality.

• General physical inspection, roasting, brewing and review cupping protocols and standards.

• Physical inspection and grading systems. Odor, color and homogeneity, shape, size, moisture content and drying quality, density, and grading.

• Chemistry of aroma precursors in coffee and their role in flavor integration.

• Practice with aroma vials and descriptors.

• Calibration in intensity and complexity of fragrance-aroma and use of aroma descriptors.

• Theory and practice of aromatic taints and defects.

• Theory of taste precursors; origin, perception threshold and taste dynamics.

• Identification of 5 basic tastes and calibration on intensity and quality.

• Taste modulation theory and exercises.

• Theory and practice of texture.

• Flavor modulation by polyphenols and fats in coffee.

• Cupping different processing methods and different species, improved catimor hybrids and Arabica varietals.

• Cupping skills testing: precision (finding the right grade), calibration (deviation from the group), consistency (scoring the same sample consistently), spread (safe cupping) and defect detection.

This course is 3 days.

Torch Coffee Lab Yunnan China

In this course you will learn:

• Specialty coffee and sensory evaluation of quality

• General physical inspection, roasting, brewing

• Basic theory of aroma perception

• Practice with aroma vials and descriptors. •Identification of basic tastes and calibration on intensity and quality (modulation).

• Introduction and informal exercises of affective, discriminative and descriptive cupping of the same coffees.

• Cupping tutoring. Learning the SCAA cupping protocols and format.

• Cupping different origins and basic processing methods.

This course is 3 days.

Torch Coffee Lab Yunnan China

Foundation: This is a 3 day mandatory course for new students wanting to learn more or to standardize more experienced students. (required to advance). 

Classes include: Intro to SCI, Intro to Coffee, and SCI Sensory Foundation.

Torch Coffee Lab Yunnan - China

Foundation: this is a 3 day mandatory course for new students wanting to learn more or to standardize more experienced students. (required to advance). 

Classes include: Intro to SCI, Intro to Coffee, and SCI Sensory Foundation.

Price: RMB 5,000

Torch Coffee Lab Yunnan - China

For more information please email to peter@torchcoffee.cn