SCA Brewing Professional
Advance your brewing skills with SCA Brewing Professional, designed for seasoned coffee professionals and enthusiasts. This comprehensive, hands-on course takes a deeper, scientific look at essential brewing elements, including advanced water quality analysis, grind setting, extraction techniques, and more. You’ll explore how brewing parameters interact and gain mastery over the coffee brewing control chart, ensuring optimal brewing results.
Ideal for experienced baristas, roasters, café owners, and those seeking to specialize in brewing or take on consultancy roles, this course provides the tools and knowledge to refine your brewing techniques and improve service and coffee quality for your clients.
Course Duration: 3 Days (24 Course Hours + Breaks)
Prerequisite: SCA Brewing Intermediate
Included: Educator fee, all required materials, snacks/meals, facility use, SCA exam, and certification fees
Advance your brewing skills with SCA Brewing Professional, designed for seasoned coffee professionals and enthusiasts. This comprehensive, hands-on course takes a deeper, scientific look at essential brewing elements, including advanced water quality analysis, grind setting, extraction techniques, and more. You’ll explore how brewing parameters interact and gain mastery over the coffee brewing control chart, ensuring optimal brewing results.
Ideal for experienced baristas, roasters, café owners, and those seeking to specialize in brewing or take on consultancy roles, this course provides the tools and knowledge to refine your brewing techniques and improve service and coffee quality for your clients.
Course Duration: 3 Days (24 Course Hours + Breaks)
Prerequisite: SCA Brewing Intermediate
Included: Educator fee, all required materials, snacks/meals, facility use, SCA exam, and certification fees
Advance your brewing skills with SCA Brewing Professional, designed for seasoned coffee professionals and enthusiasts. This comprehensive, hands-on course takes a deeper, scientific look at essential brewing elements, including advanced water quality analysis, grind setting, extraction techniques, and more. You’ll explore how brewing parameters interact and gain mastery over the coffee brewing control chart, ensuring optimal brewing results.
Ideal for experienced baristas, roasters, café owners, and those seeking to specialize in brewing or take on consultancy roles, this course provides the tools and knowledge to refine your brewing techniques and improve service and coffee quality for your clients.
Course Duration: 3 Days (24 Course Hours + Breaks)
Prerequisite: SCA Brewing Intermediate
Included: Educator fee, all required materials, snacks/meals, facility use, SCA exam, and certification fees
Master Machine and Manual Brewing
Elevating your brewing skills requires going beyond performing tasks to mastering the how and the why behind each cup.
This course transforms you from a competent brewer to a knowledgeable professional who can confidently manage a specialty coffee brew bar either in a cafe or at home.
In the SCA Brewing Professional course, you’ll spend hours immersed learning advanced coffee brewing techniques for both manual and automatic equipment.
Focused on science and precise techniques, this course builds on the basics and equips you with comprehensive understanding and capabilities to lead in the coffee industry. You'll concentrate on each advanced topic systematically, elevating your skills and knowledge to the highest professional standard.
What You’ll Learn in This Course
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Discover how key brewing elements—such as coffee-to-water ratio, grind setting, and water temperature—impact extraction and flavor balance.
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Learn to utilize the brewing control chart to achieve target strength and extraction, ensuring precise and consistent brews.
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Understand the importance of water composition (hardness, alkalinity, and pH) and learn how to test and adjust water quality to optimize coffee brewing.
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Explore the differences between brewing methods like pour-over, immersion, and automated brewers, and how they influence flavor and strength.
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Master the relationship between brewing time, grind size, and water contact time to create consistent coffee extraction.
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Develop sensory skills to evaluate brewed coffee, identifying key flavors and adjusting brewing parameters to enhance the final result.
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Learn to troubleshoot issues such as under-extraction or over-extraction, and apply solutions to achieve balanced coffee flavors.
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Understand how different filters (paper, metal, cloth) impact the coffee’s body and clarity, and how to choose the right one for specific brewing methods.
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Refine your ability to repeat brewing processes and achieve consistent results, whether for a single cup or in a high-volume setting.
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Understand how bypassing can be used in batch brewers to control strength and extraction, and how it affects the sensory aspects of brewed coffee.
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Learn to analyze and control the particle size distribution of ground coffee, and understand how it impacts brewing time, extraction, and final flavor.
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Explore techniques to brew lighter and darker roasts effectively, optimizing extraction to bring out the best flavors in each roast profile.
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Utilize tools like EC/TDS meters to analyze water quality and determine how to adjust brewing processes based on water composition.
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Learn how different turbulence methods—such as stirring, pouring, or pulsing—can influence extraction rates and affect the taste and clarity of your coffee.
Get Globally Recognized Barista Certification
At the end of this course, you’ll take a written exam based on what you will learn during the course. When you pass that exam, you’ll get a certificate from the most widely recognized certification authority, the Specialty Coffee Association.
Use your certificate to get that dream job or display it in your home to help your guests know that you are certified to make them quality beverages.
“Through Simpler's courses we received world class training courses, consultation, partnerships, and advice on how to take each and every step towards opening the doors to our cafe.”
-David Taylor, FHK Coffee
About Your Trainer
When learning important coffee skills, you want to learn from someone with extensive experience and an understanding of research-based coffee theory.
This is where I come in!
My name is Trent Rollings, I’ve been in the specialty coffee industry for 10 years, with experience as a barista, cafe owner, and coffee bar designer. I’m also a World Coffee Championships Representative and Judge. I use this experience as well as my personal coffee skills, honed over many years to help you learn coffee preparation during this course.
