HOME COFFEE TRAINING: Advanced Vegan Coffee Craft
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HOME COFFEE TRAINING: Advanced Vegan Coffee Craft
The Global Coffee School’s Advanced Course in Vegan Coffee Craft is a 3-week, cutting-edge course, focusing in on all you need to know when making and creating coffee drinks with plant-based, using the Alpro Barista Range, which includes Soya, Almond, Gluten Free Oat and Coconut.
The reasons why a home barista might branch out into the world of plant-based or want to advance their plant-based coffee practise and techniques are numerous; from taste and preference to health benefits and indulgence, to be more sustainable or to add variation and broaden options.
Led by Will Pitts (UK Latte Art and Coffee in Good Spirits Champion), this course covers a range of theory and core-skill focus areas, including mastering the art of using each of the four drinks in the Alpro Barista range to make perfect micro foam, pour, create latte art, explore flavour pairings with coffee and get creative with plant-based coffee mocktails and drink design.
You’ll learn new recipes and pick up some pro-tips, tricks and hacks for making great, balanced and delicious plant-based coffee drinks at home and creating latte art.
Week 1: Plant-Based Steaming, Pouring & Latte Art
Week 2: Pairing Plant-Based Drinks with Coffee
Week 3: Plant-Based Coffee Mocktails & Drink Design
Via this GCS Online Education Portal, you can access and stream video lessons on-demand anytime, or download and watch offline, from desktop, phone or other devices.
Each video class, accompanied by full lesson description, key learnings, ‘pro-tips’ and ‘home-hacks’, can be accessed in order, by week, via the tabled tabs to the right of this page.
You will also find your practical homework tasks, theory tests, a lesson ‘toolkit’, ‘kit list’ and a host of resources to help you on your way in the column on the right-hand side of the page for each week.
Finally, in the Portal’s top bar menu, you will find two more helpful resources - the Roaster Directory and ‘Gear’. Here you can also access the ‘Noticeboard’, where exciting Global Coffee School and Community News will be posted.
The Roaster Directory lists a whole host of specialty coffee roasters and retailers across the world, which you can search according to the country or region that you are in if you want some inspiration or to find a roaster local to you from whom to buy your beans.
The ‘Gear’ page contains a comprehensive visual list and descriptions of all the equipment and kit pieces, as well as key ingredients, that we will use or refer to within the Foundation and Advanced courses.
If you still have questions about The Global Coffee School and the courses themselves, these may be answered via the FAQ’s page which is the final tab.
Home Coffee Training: Advanced Vegan Coffee Craft
is taught by Will Pitts.
A very warm welcome to you all – get ready to learn and upgrade your home coffee practise. We hope you enjoy your time with The Global Coffee School!
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Will Pitts
Will Pitts is the reigning champion of both the UK Latte Art and Coffee in Good Spirits Championships. He is also the owner of Forts Cafes in Margate and Broadstairs, on the East coast of the UK. His mission in the coffee industry is to make coffee more accessible and fun.
As well as running his two shops, Will is one of Kahlua’s global barista ambassadors, which allows him to live a life not dissimilar to The Big Lebowski.
Before opening Forts, Will worked in London as a trainer, freelance barista, and manager of Origin Coffee Roasters’ first coffee shops in London.
Will can frequently be found on the competition circuit, where he has his eyes fixed on one day winning the UK Barista Championships.