SCA-certified training across the whole coffee chain - bar, brew, palate, green, roast and beyond. Most tracks run Foundation → Intermediate → Professional, so you can start anywhere and progress. Prices shown are fully inclusive - instructor fees, SCA registration, enrolment and certification, and UK VAT. Upcoming dates and available places are shown on each course’s booking panel.
The best first step. A broad look at the specialty industry, farm to cup, with simple tasting exercises along the way.
View full track →Espresso, milk texture and bar workflow - from your first tamp to running a bar to SCA standard.
View full track →The key skills to set a grinder, make espresso, and foam and texture milk for cappuccinos. An introductory understanding of coffee that sets a foundation…
For baristas refining espresso and café operations. Dial in with precision, adjust recipes for balance, create consistent microfoam, and improve speed -…
Tests the advanced skills and science of a high-level professional - sophisticated tasting methodology, ingredient chemistry, custom extraction recipes,…
Manual and automatic methods, the essential brewing elements, and the science of a balanced cup.
View full track →Theory and hands-on practice across automatic and manual gravity brewers. Produce a tasty brew through the essential brewing elements and an analysis of…
For brewers who want to scientifically measure and manipulate variables - analysing flavour, using advanced tools and making structural adjustments for a…
Tests advanced science - core extraction principles, water-chemistry analysis and systematic recipe manipulation - giving you the analytical tools to…
Taste like a professional. How perception works, a shared language for flavour, and cupping to industry protocol.
View full track →The essentials of sensory assessment, practical and interactive. How we perceive taste and how to apply it when evaluating coffee, with hands-on…
For those with cupping experience developing deeper sensory science - physiology of taste and aroma, test methods, cupping operation, the Flavor Wheel and…
Prepares you for managerial sensory assessment - alignment with industry standards, implementing assessment in a business, and accurately measuring,…
Botany and terroir, post-harvest processing, grading, logistics and global trade.
View full track →An introduction to the raw, unroasted supply chain - how cultivation, post-harvest processing and market trade shape the global industry. Ideal for…
Builds toward more complex green-coffee functions - a deeper look at the biological, environmental and economic factors behind quality and trade, plus…
Manager-level green coffee - a deep look at botany, agronomy, global logistics and contract design. Run advanced analysis, manage a trade portfolio and…
From first charge to running the roastery. Roast curves, machinery, heat transfer, flavour development and production management.
View full track →A broad understanding of the coffee roasting process. The physical changes a bean goes through during a roast cycle, managing flavour and aroma between…
Builds on Foundation for those with some experience - how a roast profile changes colour, taste and development time, the physical and chemical changes…
Head Roaster level roasting - a deeper look at roast curves, machinery choices and advanced taste evaluation, plus designing coffee portfolios, costing…
The benchmark qualification in coffee evaluation. Become a licensed Q Grader through the Coffee Value Assessment (CVA) system.
View full track →The environmental, economic and social realities of the trade. A Foundation, then three focused professional programmes.
View full track →The key environmental, economic and social challenges facing the global coffee industry, and the major sustainability models and supply-chain issues that…
A deep dive into environmental sustainability - climate-smart farming, carbon accounting basics, and the links between climate change and global supply…
The financial realities, pricing systems and market structures of the global trade - from commodity contract mechanics to profit-sharing models. Evaluate…
The changing landscape of mandatory sustainability law, corporate oversight and transparent reporting - how decisions are made, where power sits, and the…
Keep the kit running. Water filtration and preventive maintenance for the machines a café and roastery depend on.
View full track →Tell us where you are - total beginner, working barista, or aiming for Q - and we’ll map the right pathway through the school.
NORTHERN COFFEE SCHOOL · AT HEART & GRAFT COFFEE ROASTERY · MANCHESTER
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