Syllabus
Clive Coffee and Coffee School present: Intro to Home Brewing, a self-paced online course designed specifically for you, the home barista.
What you'll learn:
- How to brew coffee using immersion and percolation methods (i.e., French Press and V60)
- Brewing recipes, ratios, blooms, and pour speeds
- The importance of your water, filters, and grinder
- How to get the most from your coffee
- Extraction percentages and TDS
What to expect:
Upon signing up for Coffee School, you'll be sent an invitation to create an account on our learning platform, Teachable. Once you're in, you can begin working through the course at your own pace. The course includes forty five-minutes of in-depth video instruction (captioning available), practice sheets, and alternative resources. This course never expires; it is yours to keep forever! If for any reason you are unsatisfied with the course, contact us and we'll make it right!
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Required Materials
- Pour over of choice (i.e. V60, Chemex, AeroPress, French Press, Kalita Wave)
- Filters
- Burr grinder
- Coffee Scale
- Timer
- Kettle
- Filtered Water
- Spoons
- Fresh whole bean coffee
Meet your instructor
Sam has been a part of the Clive family since Sept of 2018. She came to us from Florida where her love of coffee was discovered by working as a barista. In 2015, Sam landed in Portland to work with Portland Coffee Roasters as their primary wholesale account manager and coffee trainer. During this time, she also did work for Pacific Foods Barista Series alternative milk in their lab and at SCAA. Sam has taught classes at the American Barista & Coffee Workshops in Portland, as well as leading home barista classes at Clive. Now spearheading the entire education department at Clive, her focus is on our learn espresso journal articles, live classes in Portland, and now online-only classes. Sam’s approach to teaching is thorough, careful, and most importantly, light-hearted and fun.