Barista Level 3 - Toronto (Davenport Neighbourhood)

Prerequisite: Barista Level 1+2, no exceptions
Duration: 3 hours
Location: 116 Geary Ave #107b, Toronto, Ontario: Google Maps or Apple Maps
Who is this course for:

• You want to learn about and work in specialty coffee
• For Beginners to Advanced

Curriculum: This class expands the fundamentals you learnt and practised in Barista Levels 1 and 2 until you Perfect the One Person Bar. This understanding and experience of perfecting the one person bar is essential for efficient high quality cafe operations.

You will also explore why people drink the coffee they drink, ask important questions about how and what people taste when they drink coffee? In this class we pull back the curtain and reveal the real truth about coffee. Despite being the most consumed drink in the world, very few people know anything about coffee. All we know are advertising factoids and propaganda.

Some Topics covered:

• Specialty and commodity coffee types
• Tasting exercises
• Developing and understanding your palate
• Exposing Coffee Myths
• How to talk about and taste the essential Coffee Wheel of flavours
• The tongue map, umami and basic elements of tastes perception
• Blind Cupping
• Comparative cupping for roast level, branding and taste descriptors
• Comparative Cupping
• Cupping for quality
• Choosing a Roaster and their influence on taste
• How to Dial in the coffee by taste
• Preparing Drinks To Standards
• Milk texturing and microfoaming technique and principles
• Peak of coffee freshness and understanding expectations
• Changing the coffee marketing narrative
• Making adjustments to the grinder to change taste depending on retention, dosing and tamping

Registration: Pre-registration required, no dropins.

Class Sizes are small with most of the class time being hands on giving you lots of time to learn. Class includes printed take-away material.

Specials: Buy all 4 barista levels and save.

Private Groups: We can accommodate private group training on weekdays and weekends - just ask and we are happy to schedule your course to work best for your coffee business needs.

Each class includes:

• Printed student manual, study guide, and certificate of completion
• Complimentary membership to the Wholesale Student Buying Club — alumni equipment discounts of 5–20% from suppliers across Canada, savings that can exceed the cost of the course when outfitting a café
• Free access to the CBI Dialing-In App and CBI Roast Log — digital tools you'll use long after class
• Lifetime Alumni membership and benefits — including exclusive access to low-cost consulting by the minute, available only to CBI graduates