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January¹⁹⁷⁰

Classes This Month
January¹⁹⁷⁰

Classes This Month

Business & Barista Workshop [5-Day]

2695

This intensive workshop includes lectures on start-up, operations and management and hands-on training in the espresso lab learning proper beverage and food preparation.

Business subjects include: A Brief History of the Specialty Coffee Industry, Concept Development, Business Planning, Business Plans, Acquiring Financing, Finding a Location, Negotiating a Lease, Coffee Bar Design, Cafe Ambiance, Selecting Equipment, Menu/Products/Recipes/Prices, Interviewing and Hiring Employees, Employee Training, Operational Systems and Controls, Financial Projections, Marketing Your Business, and Dealing with Employees.

Espresso Lab practicum subjects include: Grinding, Tamping and Extracting Espresso, Pulling the Perfect Shot of Espresso, Grinder and Machine Basics, Steaming and Foaming Milk for Lattes and Cappuccinos, Hot and Cold Drink Recipe Basics, Smoothie and GranitaOverview, Panini Preparation, Machine Maintenance, Coffee History, Customer Service, Principles of Latte Art, The Latte Art pours, The Simple Heart, The Rosetta, The Apple, The Autumn Leaf and The Little Flower, Grinding, Tamping and Extracting Espresso and Milk Texturing.

Barista Workshop [3-Day]

1295

This workshop is focused on on menu building and quality control. New and existing retailers, managers and key employees learn to increase the quality of the products they serve and new techniques or brew methods to incorporate into their retail businesses, ensuring their continuing success.

As a pared down version of our 5-Day Business + Barista Consulting Workshop, the 3-day workshop is focused more narrowly on menu building and quality control. Existing retailers, managers and key employees learn to increase the quality of the products they serve and new techniques or brew methods to incorporate into their retail businesses, ensuring their continuing success. This workshop is limited to espresso beverages menu and brewed coffee preparation techniques.

Barista Competition/Latte Art Workshop [1-5 Days]

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The idea of entering a barista competition can be quite overwhelming. There are many aspects to consider: from where your coffee is sourced to what your menu will look like. The American Barista & Coffee School has teamed up with a world-class group of former competitors, judges, and other Portland professionals to develop a five-day intensive competition-training program.

In addition to rigorous competition practice everyday, we will tap the resources of local artists, chefs, dairies, farms, and coffees roasters in our own backyard to help you develop your competition program. Our week of training will be a lot of hard-work, a lot of fun, and, most importantly, will prepare you to walk out on the competition floor without skipping a beat.

This workshop is tailored to meet each attendee's needs, and is led by United States Barista Championship and Latte Art Competition competitors and judges.

Coffee Roasting + Cupping Workshop [2-Day]

1095

This workshop is the perfect introduction to the world of coffee roasting and will provide you with a great overview and theory of what is involved in micro-roasting coffees from around the world. A great entry-level workshop for coffee retailers and home roasters.

Do you want to learn more about what it takes to roast excellent coffee? Our two-day roasting class is a one of a kind offering that will teach you what you need to know in order to become a first class coffee roaster. If your goal is to master home roasting, take your coffee knowledge to the next level, or to start a micro-roasting operation, our hands-on roasting course will up your game to a professional level.

Our roasting workshops are held at Water Avenue Coffee, a new roastery/cafe opened by ABC's founder Bruce Milletto, Matt Milletto (ABC's Director) and Head Roaster/Roasting Instructor Brandon Smyth in June of 2010. The roastery is adjacent to ABC's, and effectively doubles the size of the facility's instructional space to 4,000 square feet. Combining the roastery with ABC's makes the ABC's experience one unparalleled in coffee education anywhere.

On-Site Barista Training & Consultation

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If you are unable to make the trip out to Portland, OR for our classes, don't worry, we can come to you! We are able to visit your site to either set up training and work with you and your staff one on one.

Learn more about our consulting services or call us at 800-655-3955

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