The Comprehensive Coffee Sample Roasting Course

The Comprehensive Coffee Sample Roasting Course featuring Mark Michaelson is an online, self-paced video course for professional coffee roasters designed to teach you the purpose and process of sample roasting from sample selection through roast evaluation. The course covers not only the technical know-how necessary for sample roasting, but also the significant value of developing a formal and standardized sample roasting program for your business.

The course curriculum is presented in a multimedia online format containing practical video instruction, powerpoint presentations, a 100 page PDF companion workbook, and a series of video conversations about the role and function of sample roasting in the global coffee industry.

This course covers the following points of a sample roasting program:

- Understanding samples as part of a quality control program

- Determining sample needs

- Ordering and organizing samples

- Evaluating and preparing green coffee samples

- Roasting to SCA standard or your company’s standard

- Understanding expectations regarding green coffee samples

- Technical aspects of cupping for sensory evaluation