Hands-on, one-on-one training
Talk Coffee can provide training sessions at our Northcote warehouse and roastery on Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday mornings by arrangement during the February – November period. Contact us to arrange a training session.
Our courses:
Beginner: Introduction to Espresso: 75-90 minutes: $225 (Additional participant $150)
This course is designed to suit those who have recently purchased a machine and would like to produce cafe quality espresso and milk based drinks. Participants are welcome to train on their own equipment. We will teach you how to adjust your grinder and provide you with the basics to ensure that you get a great result from your gear. We will also educate you on how to produce the drinks in the coffee menu and how to maintain your machine.
More advanced: 1 on 1 Espresso a la carte: $225 for up to 90 minutes then charged at $75/30min per person or part thereof (Additional participant $150)
Come in and play freestyle. Let’s work on your issues together to get mastery of your machine and have you you pulling the best shots possible.
We can teach you how to correctly adjust your grinder to produce the best espresso your machine is capable of, and to do so consistently. A range of dosing, distribution and tamping techniques can be covered. Let’s solve deficiencies in in your espresso. Milk texture technique can also be covered within this course. Most participants find they require around 1.5-2.0 hours to attend to their requirements.
All levels: The full coffee shebang: 4 hours $600 (Monday and Thursday mornings)
So you want to make a better coffee? Maybe you’d like to roast at home or perhaps start up a hobby roasting business one day? This session is designed to be a taster of everything! Come bright and early for coffee shots- e61 and lever style. Pull a few shots with us and we will help you to improve your technique with espresso and milk so that your home experience is improved. Thinking about roasting? We’ll run a couple of roasts together on our Aillio and we’ll then apply what you learn to a roast or two on our commercial roaster. Given time, we will also cup some coffee. You will of course have samples to take home and try!
Home roasting and cupping: up to 3 hours- $450
Roasting your own coffee at home is easy, inexpensive and fun! Why pay $50 or more per kilo for coffee which may be stale when you can roast your own for $20 per kilo dependent on your choice of beans? Learn to profile roast using our Nucleus Link and Aillio roasters across a minimum 4 roasts of the same bean to the same roast level, but with differing strategies. We’ll cup your results and you’ll be taking everything you roast back home to sample.
Commercial coffee roasting training courses.
We highly recommend the following trainers:
- Anne Cooper of Equilibrium Master Roasters. Training in Melbourne and Anne also consults Australia wide.
- Mark Beattie of Coffee Roasters Australia. Mark runs regular courses in Arundel on the Gold Coast.
- Peter Wolff of Wolff Coffee Roasters. Peter runs regular courses in Brisbane.
Our commercial roaster training:
- Talk Coffee: Introduction to commercial roasting and cupping: 1/2 day- available exclusively for clients who have purchased a commercial roasters from us $first participant complimentary. Additional participant $500
After a 9.30 am coffee, we provide you with training on our Aillio roaster and Phantom roaster. You will learn how to successfully operate and maintain your roaster and how to cup your results over a number of roasts. Participants roast coffee using a variety of roast profiling techniques each participant takes home a kilo of each of the to try. Morning tea/Lunch provided.
This course is provided at no charge to the purchaser of any brand new commercial roaster. Purchasers who wish to gain further experience after completing this course can then hire our roaster and use our facility under supervision while awaiting delivery of their roaster.