IBCA SCA Courses
Whether you want to improve your skills, grow your current coffee business, or gain new skills to start a career in coffee, getting trained and certified by the International Barista & Coffee Academy (IBCA) & Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) will give you all the knowledge you need to succeed.
IBCA has trained Students from all over the world including…
Albania, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, and Wales.
Barista Skills – IBCA & SCA Certification
This course comes with IBCA and SCA certificates. The key module for any Barista in the coffee industry. These courses are a combined mixture of online learning and hands-on practice in our showroom and training center.
Intermediate – 10 Credits Toward SCA Coffee Diploma
During the first part of this intensive training class, you will learn about coffee history, green coffee, roasting, grinding, brewing, extraction and preparation, milk, water, service skills, presentation, cleaning, and sensory technology. The second half of the class is spent in the practical espresso stations. This is where you get hands-on experience with grinders, grinder adjustment, espresso machines, extraction, and pulling the perfect espresso shot. Not only will you learn about milk, steaming, and texturing, but you will practice it on the spot by preparing the perfect traditional espresso, cappuccino, and latte. The class will be concluded with time learning the basics of latte art.
Duration 2 days Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 3518 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Professional – 25 Credits Toward SCA Coffee Diploma
Similar to the Barista Skills Intermediate Course, except this class goes deeper into the coffee world from coffee history, green coffee, green coffee retail, coffee added value labels, certifications, roasting, grinding, brewing, extraction, preparation, milk, water, service skills, presentation, cleaning, maintenance, sensory cup technology, health, and coffee. You will then spend the second half of the class refining your skills on grinding and extracting as well as milk texturing, followed by a practice session to hone skills in latte art.
*Students must have passed IBCA or SCA Barista Skills Intermediate Course prior to registering for this course.
Duration 3 days Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 5303 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Brewing Skills – IBCA & SCA Certification
This course comes with IBCA and SCA certifications. This course teaches the importance and interaction of all grinding and extraction methods, as well as brewing styles typically used in the coffee industry. You will acquire the skills necessary for the preparation of coffee with respect to all of these methods. With your improved skills and knowledge, you will be able to determine what factors are important for each brew style and quality. At the end of class, you will reproduce and evaluate each brew method studied. This course is also excellent preparation for the Green Coffee class.
Foundation – 5 Credits Towards SCA Coffee Diploma
This course is designed to introduce core brewing skills to people with no previous experience. A practical will require brewing equipment and particular coffees but this can be followed online by the trainer.
Duration 1 day Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 2205 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Intermediate – 10 Credits Toward SCA Coffee Diploma
This course requires 1 day of practical courses and exercises. These will need to be conducted on-site.
Duration 2 days Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 3360 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Professional – 25 Credits Towards SCA Coffee Diploma
*Students must have passed IBCA or SCA Brewing Intermediate Course prior to registering for the Professional Course.
Duration 3 days Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 5198 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Green Coffee – IBCA & SCA Certification
This course teaches the importance and interaction of all grinding and extraction methods, as well as brewing styles typically used in the coffee industry. You will acquire the skills necessary for the preparation of coffee with respect to all of these methods. With your improved skills and knowledge, you will be able to determine what factors are important for each brew style and quality. At the end of class, you will reproduce and evaluate each brew method studied. This course is also excellent preparation for the Green Coffee class.
All the courses come with IBCA and SCA certifications.
Foundation – 5 Credits Towards SCA Coffee Diploma
This course is designed to introduce core brewing skills to people with no previous experience. A practical will require brewing equipment and particular coffees but this can be followed online by the trainer.
Duration 1 day Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 2205 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Intermediate – 10 Credits Toward SCA Coffee Diploma
This course requires 1 day of practical courses and exercises. These will need to be conducted on-site.
Duration 2 days Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 3518 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Professional – 25 Credits Towards SCA Coffee Diploma
*Students must have passed IBCA or SCA Brewing Intermediate Course prior to registering for the Professional Course.
Duration 3 days Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 5460 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Roasting Skills – IBCA & SCA Certification
This course comes with IBCA and SCA certifications. You can get certified in three different levels of Roasting.
Foundation – 5 Credits Towards SCA Coffee Diploma
The focus of this class is to get some basic impressions and a physical understanding of the product and roasting process. You will learn how to practice distinguishing between green coffee and roasted coffee, identify the change in roaster flame control, repeat the process of timing a roast temperature evolution, learn how to weigh and record the moisture of green and roasted coffee, and identify the first crack.
Duration 1 day Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 2783 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Intermediate – 10 Credits Toward SCA Coffee Diploma
In the Intermediate course, you will learn how to easily identify the color range of roasted coffee beans and understand the cup result with different roast profiles. You will be taught the steps required to install a coffee roaster, including different heat, energy sources, and materials needed for a professional roaster. You will be guided through the roasting stages, physical reactions, chemical reactions, browning process, and how different environmental conditions can affect the roast. By the end of the class, you will be able to determine different defects of the roast, how air quality can affect roasting, maintenance of the machine, and how to stop a possible roaster fire. Finally, learn about different types of roasters and we will give you the tools to set up and design a typical micro roasting facility.
Duration 2 days Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 4305 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Professional – 25 Credits Towards SCA Coffee Diploma
The Roasting Professional Level class takes a more practical approach than the Intermediate Level, thus taking you further into the world of roasting. More time will be spent in actual roasting sessions. You will roast three batches of the same coffee to a pre-determined color range, getting within ten points as a target. You will learn to identify coffee roasted at different times and temperatures in a cup tasting session. We will dive deeper into the science of coffee, the chemical makeup of coffee, and the chemical reactions of roasted coffee. At the end of the course, you will have the ability to profile roast.
*Students must have passed IBCA or SCA Roasting Intermediate Course prior to registering for this course.
Duration 3 days Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 7613 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Sensory Skills – IBCA & SCA Certification
This course comes with IBCA and SCA certifications. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of formal coffee analysis. You will develop keen sensory skills, formal cup tasting protocol, and proper terminology used in the coffee industry. We cover everything from setting up the preparation of a cup tasting with proper tools and utensils to the weights, grind, and measurements used with the formal cup tasting protocol. You will learn to use your sensory perceptions and the proper terminology that is used by experts in the industry.
Foundation – 5 Credits Towards SCA Coffee Diploma
Full Day Course with IBCA and SCA Certificate.
Duration 1 day Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 2520 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Intermediate – 10 Credits Toward SCA Coffee Diploma
In the Intermediate, you will need to attend 2 days course. All level courses come with IBCA and SCA Certificate.
Duration 2 days Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 3623 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Professional – 25 Credits Towards SCA Coffee Diploma
*Students must have passed IBCA or SCA Roasting Intermediate Course prior to registering for this course.
Duration 3 days Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM
Price AED 5670 (Inclusive of certification charges and VAT)
Q Grading – IBCA & SCA Certification
This course comes with IBCA and SCA certifications. Becoming a licensed Q Grader gives you a specialized tool in the coffee trade. In this course, you will learn the global standards of quality coffee set by the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI). It is broken down into three days of practice and calibration and three days of testing. We cover everything including triangulation, cupping, olfactory tests, roasted grading, green grading coffee, sensory skills, organic acid matching pairs test, and sample roast ID skills. The Q Grading Program is globally recognized and actually required by many coffee employers for their quality control personnel, roasters, green buyers, and exporters.
Duration 6 days Hours 9:00 AM to 5 PM