Learn to taste, describe, and evaluate coffee the way professionals do.
Watch the 30-minute video below to go from "tastes good" to the precise sensory language pros use. There's a live experiment inside. You'll try it right during the video.
You don't have to be a pro. You need to care about coffee, and want the vocabulary that turns your taste into a decision-making tool.
You're already behind the bar. After this course, you describe every cup by profile: apple-like acidity, medium body, caramel sweetness, the way championship judges do. Guests hear a specialist. They come back for you.
You drink coffee every day. After this course, you read the label and know what's coming in the cup. You tell real quality from beautiful marketing, before you spend $25 on a bag.
You're building a business. After this course, you evaluate any lot before you buy it. You stop taking the supplier's word for it. You lead the sourcing conversation.
Each stage builds on the last. Sensory skill built lesson by lesson.
Understand how you actually perceive coffee, through which channels. Learn to tell the 5 basic tastes apart. Master the Flavor Wheel, your main tool for the rest of the course.
Learn to describe sweetness, acidity, and body in precise words. Run your first blind tasting and see how sharp your palate has become.
Understand how origin shapes flavor. Learn to read the aftertaste, evaluate balance, and predict what a cup will taste like, from the label alone, before you brew it.
Master a cupping session, the professional tasting format used at championships and coffee-buying sessions. Compare your first tasting note with your last one and see how your palate has changed.
The basics and practical drills of pairing coffee with food. Plus the final feedback survey.
Every lesson comes with an experiment or an assignment you run at home, with what's already in your kitchen. No expensive gear. Your kitchen is your lab.
Teaches Middle East professionals to read coffee the way championship judges do. Fifteen years in specialty coffee, from barista and training manager in Saint Petersburg to founder of Sharipova Coffee in Dubai.
Championship judge. GulfHost speaker. Consults on café openings across the region.
I built Coffee Fluency because 800+ certified students worldwide, but the coffee world is hundreds of thousands. Online is the only way to share this foundation with everyone who wants to learn, wherever they are.
Two ways to walk through the course. Same curriculum. Different levels of support.
Questions students ask before enrolling
The same tasting template Irina uses at her paid workshops in Dubai. A starter toolkit for your first mindful tasting at home.
Until now, only in-person training participants could get it. Now it's free. Just leave your email.
"My role is not to convince you to only drink expensive coffee. It's to give you the tool to figure out what you like, and why, on your own."
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