COURSES
We provide a diverse range of courses designed to satisfy industry demands, including everything from introductory barista training to advanced professional development. Our offerings also feature programs on coffee entrepreneurship, latte art workshops for enthusiasts, and roastery courses. Moreover, we offer customized in-house courses tailored specifically to corporate or private business needs. Through our blended learning approach, you can benefit from both an online LMS and personal face-to-face coaching sessions. Feel free to contact us so we can help address your individual or company requirements.
Are you launching a coffee shop and need barista training, or are you a home coffee enthusiast seeking consumer coffee classes?
The Barista Academy of Southern Africa provides classes designed for all, including entrepreneurs launching a coffee business, working baristas seeking to enhance their skills, and home coffee enthusiasts. Our training centers are equipped with cutting-edge espresso machines and brewing equipment that replicate a real café environment—simplifying the learning process.
Planning to Open Coffeeshop
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Your Step-By-Step Roadmap For How To Open A Coffee Shop
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Learn how to open a coffee shop business with no previous experience necessary! Come away with the know-how, resources, and a step-by-step plan of action to launch and grow your own independent coffee shop business. Over the last 25 years this very class has been the launch platform for hundreds-and-hundreds of successful coffee shop businesses all around the world!
Specialty Coffee Course
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e-Learning Online Barista Course
This an innovative and cost effective Barista course for beginners or Baristas without qualification. This on-job six weeks Barista course fast track the qualification without leaving the job or even a school/college leaver looking for part-time or full time locally or internationally. This a blended flipped classroom online course which contains the following learnings:
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Module 1: Origin, history and Botany of Coffee
Module 2: Coffee Roasting, types and classifications
Module 3: Coffee Grinding, types and classifications
Module 4: Mis en place, Know your coffee machine and tools
Module 5: Coffee dosing, the science of dosing and ratios
Module 6: Tamping the methodology of tamping a Holy Grail of Barista
Module 7: Extraction, the Art and Science of Extraction “The perfect Shot”.
Module 8: Water & Milk, types, varieties and molecular chemical composition
Module 9: Coffee and latte making art and recipes
Module 10: Coffee buying and storing tips
Module 11: Coffee machine and tools cleaning and maintenance
Module 12: Glossary of Coffee
Benefits of the Course:
Learn while you Learn
Flexibility to learn at home or at work
Qualification is portable
High demand for qualified Baristas locally and internationally.
Duration: Six weeks online
Admission Requirement: Full time Barista at work or Novice but they need to find a part-time or full-time placement for 6 weeks.
Fees: R499
Certificate from Cesar Ritz Hotelier Academy
Coffee Shop Management course
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This coffee shop management training course is a highly detailed single day workshop designed to be the turn-key solution for a coffee shop, bakery, and cafe owners that need to get themselves or their coffee shop managers trained and up to speed on critical business operations and management skills to effectively run a coffee shop.
With an emphasis on making course curriculum easy to understand and absorb, our team of coffee business experts created a management training program that focuses on the key factors that can make the biggest impact on a coffee shop’s day-to-day operations. This class is perfect for existing coffee shops and/or shops that recently hired or promoted a new manager. Students will come away from this coffee shop management training course equipped with the practical knowledge of what it takes to be an effective team leader and manager of operations as it relates to the company’s customer needs, employee needs, and store needs. Each student will be provided with a detailed binder of class notes and management resource materials to take home.
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Cost R4999.00
Duration 3 months
Blended eLearning program
Entry requirement: Must be working as a coffee shop supervisor for years.
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Latte Art Course
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An advance Barista crash course for anyone who wants to learn how to pour latter art.
Want to learn how to pour latte art like a pro? Does this statement sound familiar? – “The person in the YouTube video makes pouring latte art look so easy, but for some reason mine never comes outright.” If you answered “YES!” then you are exactly who we created this latte art class for!
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Art Class is an 8-hour, hands-on barista training class designed for coffee professionals and home enthusiasts looking to learn how to pour latte art, and perfect milk skills. You will learn advanced milk steaming and texturing techniques, pouring mechanics, and how to pour the most popular latte art designs – the heart + ringed heart, tulip, and rosetta. This class provides ample personalized one-on-one instruction from our team of pro coffee educators and we keep class sizes small to ensure everyone has plenty of practice time. Our top priority is to keep your learning experience fun, approachable, and results-oriented!
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Cost R 999.00
Duration 8 hours
entry requirement: Must have a foundational course or at least 6 month experience as professional Barista.
Professional Barista Course
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The 5-Day Barista Training Class combines our popular Espresso & Milk foaming Skills Class and Quality Coffee Brewing into one comprehensive barista training workshop. Students will gain the skills necessary to feel confident working in a quality-oriented coffee shop environment, or as a skilled home barista. Students will learn how to properly operate an espresso machine, grinders, and traditional coffee brewing equipment. In addition, students will learn how to steam milk, prepare all the classic espresso-based drinks, and maintain equipment. Students will also perform guided hands-on brewing experiments and tasting exercises with today’s most popular coffee brewing equipment to learn how to isolate and control individual factors that affect coffee’s taste. The barista skills taught in this coffee class are absolutely vital for brewing consistently great tasting coffee and espresso, and knowing how to troubleshoot off-tasting results. Upon completion of this course, you will receive a certificate of training, certifying that you have attended and successfully completed this professional barista training course.
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Cost R2499.00
Entry requirement: No experience required
Duration 5 weeks of blended learning, 5 face to face classes and 4 days at industry work placement.
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A certificate will be awarded on the successful completion.
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This Cathsseta accredited
course, but if you want to
certified by Cathsseta
Cost R3500.00
Coffee Enthusiast Course
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This course is designed for the novices and socialites those who want to hon their knowledge of coffee to impress family and friends. It is an intense informative three-hours course theoretical with a PowerPoint presentation, demo, videos and lecture with a tasting of espresso and cappuccino. you will learn during the course the following,
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1. Coffee origin, botany and history
2. Coffee types
3. Roasting profiles and grinding
4. Water suitability for coffee
5. Milk frothing
6. Tasting protocols and tasting techniques.
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it is an evening course 5-8 pm
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Cost R250.00
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