Coffee Tasting - Professional

Elevate your sensory skills and learn pro-tips in this coffee tasting in San Marcos!


Memli Coffee Lab
Memli Coffee Lab
5.0 (12)
3k followers

7 hours Experience size 1 to 2 guests     $700


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Ready to take your coffee intellegence to the next level? Join this coffee tasting for pros in San Marcos! This tasting class is designed for coffee professionals and enthusiasts who already have some experience with brewing, roasting, and tasting coffee. We will take it up a notch here with some intensive activities that will challenge your sensory skills and help you detect the finest differences.
This is a full-day event. The objective of this workshop is to strengthen your skills, build confidence, develop a sense of criticism, and become a better coffee professional.
Attending the Advanced and Specialty Coffee Tasting workshop previously will greatly help.
What you'll learn
  • Activity 1: Rank the 5 basic taste solutions from least to most intense.
  • Activity 2: Taste a mixture of basic taste solutions and identify which ones are part of the mix.
  • Activity 3: Train and categorize the different florals and spices, which are some of the hardest notes to find in coffee.
  • Activity 4: We will use different ingredients to illustrate the differences between bitterness, sweetness, and sourness of the same ingredient. We will also discuss the importance and modulation of sweetness, texture, and aftertaste while cooking some sugars and experiencing the rate of Maillard reaction and caramelization.
  • Break: Lunch included.
Activity 5: Cupping of the same coffee roasted differently, modulating time and temperature:
  • Short-High
  • Short-Low
  • Standard
  • Long-High
  • Long-Low
  • Activity 6: Cupping
  • Activity 7: Cupping with different water, using the same coffee to identify and discuss the importance of minerals in coffee. We will fix the alkalinity and play with Calcium and Magnesium ions to taste their impact on the cup.
  • Break
  • Activity 8: The final test is to identify the odd cup in a triangle. This exercise will recap all the activities we covered through a 4-triangle test. You'll also learn some techniques I have developed over the last 5 years of competition.
Finally, your class will finish with a Q&A where you can get all of your lingering coffee tasting questions answered!

Knowledge required
For coffee professionals and serious enthusiasts. The advanced class is recommended as a pre-requisite.
 
What you'll get
  • A free bag of coffee
  • The Memli Water kit
  • A cupping spoon
  • Some goodies
Location

Memli Coffee Lab - 1365 Grand Avenue suite 103, San Marcos, CA

Coffee Tasting - Professional location
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Memli Coffee Lab
Memli Coffee Lab

5.0 (12)
3k followers

I believe communication is the first step to solving anything. That’s why we value trust, transparency, and mindfulness in everything we do. Coffee flows in my blood since my childhood in Paris, France. From the café on the terraces to a warm cup of Turkish coffee at home, it was always a connecting moment between people and culture.
After my engineering degree, months of travel at coffee origins, and years of coffee education in London, UK, I launched Memli Coffee Lab to propose an innovative approach to coffee roasting with a focus on sensory experience, transparency, and education.
Looking back, coffee has always been in my life. As we say in French, it's my "madeleine de Proust" and my glimmer of hope at the same time. I hope you can catch me one day and share ideas around a cup of coffee

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2025-01-03 15:00:00
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