Perky Blenders Training On Tour Second Stop, Kenya! I arrived in Nairobi after a 36 hours journey from Bogotà to Nairobi, with one stop home for a hot shower and get clean clothes. There I could start my Kenyan adventures. Time to set up Beanstitute Coffee School furnished with furniture made out of recycled palettes….
Category: Coffee Education
First stop, Colombia. Day 1 to 7 – SCA Courses, Dry Mill, Farm…
Day 1 – La Finca Noreña https://www.facebook.com/pg/PerkyBlendersTrainingAcademy/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1913630355625491 Day 2 – Brewers Cup Workshop https://www.facebook.com/pg/PerkyBlendersTrainingAcademy/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1914397732215420 Day 3 – SCA Barista Intermediate https://www.facebook.com/pg/PerkyBlendersTrainingAcademy/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1914448232210370 Day 4 – Dry Mill https://www.facebook.com/pg/PerkyBlendersTrainingAcademy/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1915802422074951 Day 4-5-6 – SCA Sensory Skills Foundation and Intermediate https://www.facebook.com/pg/PerkyBlendersTrainingAcademy/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1915802422074951 Day 7 – SCA Brewing Intermediate https://www.facebook.com/pg/PerkyBlendersTrainingAcademy/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1916244488697411
Perky Blenders Training Academy On Tour! Colombia – Day 1
First stop, Colombia. Day 1 – Introduction Two years ago, I was a volunteer at the first New York Coffee Festival. There I met Angie, a dynamic Colombian woman who lives for coffee. At that time I was planning to become an AST by the beginning of the following year, I was still working for…
SCA courses at Perky Blenders
SCA courses at Perky Blenders Click on the link below to see all the SCA courses we are running at Perky Blenders Training Academy – Project 660 https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=13521202&appointmentType=category:SCA+Course https://d3gxy7nm8y4yjr.cloudfront.net/js/embed.js Contact me for more informations regine@perkyblenders.com
Meet our Youngest Graduate
Perky Blenders’s youngest SCA student Calum just successfully passed his SCA Introduction To Coffee and Barista Skills Foundation at Perky Blender Project 660. Calum started coffee a few years ago in a commercial company in Essex. Most of his training was mostly self-taught and hits and misses. However he managed to produced decent coffee beverage….
The Beanstitute Needs Your Help
The Beanstitute Needs Your Help Dear ASTs, Roasters and Barista Trainers, Sophie Mukua,director of the FTOK, and me, Régine Guion-Firmin, are building an SCA school are building a school in Kenya, The Beanstitute (read more about it here!). Our goal is to offer Barista Training (and soon Roasting Training) and SCA education for Kenyan and Tanzanian Coffee…
Perky Flavours at Project 660
Perky Flavours at Project 660 This morning started with a production cupping… What is cupping? Cupping is a way of tasting coffee in order to discover its flavours and notes, qualities and defects. Therefore we controlled the quality of our coffee. How tasty was our coffee? Tom, our head roaster and co-owner of Perky Blenders,…
New SCA School in East London
Perky Blenders opens a New SCA School in East London Introducing the AST Regine loves coffee. She has a stack of green coffee books on her bedside table, sleeps with her refractometer, dreams of the perfect extraction, cups every morning, then drinks coffee throughout the day. Training is her passion, and connecting with new coffee people…
Gakundu (Gakui) Co-ops and Farmers
Gakundu (Gakui) Co-ops and Farmers
Media, Roasting Profiling, Re:Co and Sustainability
Out Of The Box Lamarzocco Event at Hackney House The Panels Modernising Modern Media Maximising Modern Media – Part 1 Panel of Discussion with Caffeine Magazine, The Girl In The Cafe, The Right Roast and Jason Breckenridge (The Beautiful Addiction) Maximising Modern Media – Part 2 Panel of Discussion with Caffeine Magazine, The Girl In The…
Manchester Coffee Festival
Cup North Some of you have heard of Cup North, now known as Manchester Coffee Festival, and perhaps you want to know more. Well, let Ricardo Gandara and Hannah Davies tell us about more about this refreshingly new festival, who I spoke to recently at Manchester Coffee Festival. In the beginning… For the last…
Café Education oui!
Café Education oui! Mais pourquoi? Et ensuite que faire? J’ai lu beaucoup d’articles sur l’éducation et la formation du café, cependant je trouve que l’information peut être confuse parfois. Eh bien, essayons de le rendre plus clair et plus utile afin d’améliorer votre avenir. J’ai lu beaucoup d’articles sur l’éducation et la formation du café,…
