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The Coffee Buyer's Guide to
COLOMBIAWelcome to The Coffee Buyer’s Guide to Colombia, the third in our series of Buyer’s Guides. In this online course we explore the flavours and seasonality of Colombia’s growing regions and describe all the important coffee plant varieties grown in the country. We explain how Colombian coffee is graded, exported, and roasted. This course will be published in fortnightly instalments. It comprises five separate chapters and over thirty individual lessons.
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Baseline Courses
Barista One
Barista One is a course that guides newcomers to a professional standard in just twenty hours. It’s an espresso course and certification which teaches you everything you need to know about working effectively in a modern cafe.
Course: 58 lessons in 8 chapters
Certification: Yes
Percolation
Percolation brew methods allow you to produce the most velvety and clarified brews which is what makes this style of coffee beverage, the most thirst quenching and delicious of them all. This course explores the science of …
Course: 46 lessons in 8 chapters
Certification: Yes
Immersion
Immersion is an online coffee course that explores the best techniques and recipes. Immersion brew methods vary greatly from one to the next and in this ambitious course, we look at everything, from French press to syphon coffee.
Course: 71 lessons in 8 chapters
Certification: Yes
The Coffee Buyer’s Guide
Courses introducing coffee growing origins
Guatemala
Guatemala is one of the most populous countries in Central America and the second-largest coffee producer in the region. This course will show you the ways in which Guatemalan producers are innovating to make their coffee tastier, or their farms more sustainable.
Course: 45 lessons in 5 chapters
Certification: Yes
Brazil
Brazil is the most influential coffee producing country, in terms of its history of research and innovation. But also financially, the success or failure of the Brazilian coffee harvest has a knock on effect to global financial markets. This course will explain what you can expect …
This course is in production and can be accessed with a BH Unlimited subscription. New lessons are added biweekly.
Advanced Courses
Advanced Coffee Making
This Course & Certification is geared towards the coffee professional or home barista looking to enhance and expand their current coffee knowledge. This course will equip you with the necessary tools and information …
Course: 87 lessons in 8 chapters
Certification: Yes
Milk Science & Latte Art
Latte art has gone from an occasional novelty in third-wave coffee shops to a signature of modern coffee culture. It’s no longer just the domain of specialty coffee; it’s been widely adopted all around the world, practiced from the …
Course: 72 lessons in 8 chapters
Certification: Yes
The Water Course
The Water Course is a first of its kind, designed to give baristas and cafe owners everything they need to take charge of their water chemistry. Absorbing this information will save you thousands in potential maintenance costs …
Course: 44 lessons in 6 chapters
Certification: Yes
Coffee Quality Control
Coffee Quality Control is a complete course on how to taste and grade coffee. It is a course designed for baristas, roasters and green buyers. It’s for anyone in the coffee chain directly responsible for coffee flavour.
Course: 46 lessons in 7 chapters
Certification: Yes
Advanced Espresso
Advanced espresso looks into the latest innovations in modern barista technique and recent developments in machine and grinder engineering. It also dives deep into the physics of espresso extractions …
Course: 80 lessons in 10 chapters
Certification: Yes
The Espresso Machine
History, Form, and Function – This course will give you a complete understanding of how the espresso machine works. You will learn about all modern machine components; how they are …
Course: 52 lessons in 5 chapters
Certification: Yes
Milk Science
This advanced course explores the science and mechanics of perfect milk foams. We examine the physics of milk steaming and how milk foams hold together. We also find out how dairy farming practices, processing and…
Course: 39 lessons in 4 chapters
Certification: Yes
Latte Art
Latte art has gone from an occasional novelty in third-wave coffee shops to a signature of modern coffee culture. It is no longer just the domain of specialty coffee; it has been widely adopted all around…
Course: 43 lessons in 5 chapters
Certification: Yes
Roasting Science
The Roasting Science course teaches coffee-roasting professionals about what happens inside the beans during roasting and how to use that knowledge to improve their roasting practices. Under the effects of heat and airflow…
This course is in production and can be accessed with a BH Unlimited subscription. New lessons are added biweekly.
Specialized Courses
Terroir
Great coffee is the result of a plant’s genotype and the terroir that surrounds it. The environmental factors of climate, soil, and farming techniques combine to create the terroir of a coffee farm. In this course, we learn about how coffee is …
Course: 51 lessons in 7 chapters
Certification: Yes
Processing
Processing is the second in a series of courses from Barista Hustle about coffee origin. Processing picks up where the Terroir course left off — at the precise moment that ripe coffee cherry is harvested. In this course, we learn about …
Course: 82 lessons in 9 chapters
Certification: Yes
The Decision Tree
Barista Hustle has commenced work on a free course to help baristas and cafe owners make informed decisions on how to operate in a world beset by climate change. The intention of the course is to put readers in the driver’s seat.
This course is in production and can be accessed with a BH Unlimited subscription. New lessons are added biweekly.