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PHCA (Pacific Hospitality & Culinary Academy) offers an internationally recognized Barista Curriculum here in Nepal. PHCA has joined hands with the Beverage Standards Association (BSA) in the UK to open the British Coffee School in Kathmandu, Nepal, to meet the demand for highly skilled Baristas. The course provided is accredited by the Association, which is itself a British Government-approved coffee qualification provider in the UK with internationally recognized course content and syllabus.

Good baristas aren’t born. They’re made. You will get an experience of a hands-on one-and-a-half-hour course introducing participants to the skills needed to gain employment in a café or coffee shop. Students will learn about various coffee styles (including cappuccino, café latte, and long black), how to prepare and present coffee, and how to use and maintain an espresso machine. 

The certification will be provided by the Beverage Standards Association UK itself.

Method of Delivery

A comprehensive training center offering both theoretical and practical sessions, equipped with Australian-based coffee machines, infrastructure, and highly skilled barista instructors. Training methods include, but are not limited to, interactive activities, lectures, and technology-based learning.

Basic Barista Training Course Structure

Unit Unit Description
Coffee Knowledge
  1. History of Coffee
  2. Growing Regions
  3. Processing 
  4. Roasting
  5. Cupping/Tasting
Product Knowledge Additional, Coffee related products; Skill Practice
Barista Skills
  1. Bar Orientation, Equipment
  2. Pulling Shots and Steaming Milk
  3. Drink Making and Troubleshooting
  4. Equipment Maintenance 
  5. Skill Practice
Customer Service
  1. Interpersonal Skills
  2. The Customer Interaction process
  3. Skill Practice

Advanced Barista Course 

The Advanced Barista Course is designed to elevate coffee-making skills to the highest level. This course emphasizes extraction theory and its practical applications in a café setting, serving as the ideal progression from the Basic Barista course.

Tailored for advanced baristas seeking to refine their skills and consistently produce top-quality coffee beverages, this course employs techniques used by world-class baristas to distinguish their coffee.

Assessments

Assessments consist of observation, discussion, written assignments, tests, and practical evaluations at the training center. Students are required to attend scheduled tests and practical assessments.

Advanced Barista Course Structure

Unit Unit Description
Historical Elements of Raw Materials
  1. Coffee history
  2. Cocoa history
  3. Tea History
  4. History of coffee machines until 1960 until today
Coffee Botanical
  1. Coffee tree
  2. Morphology characteristics of the coffee tree
  3. Basically species
  4. Varieties of species
  5. Hybrids
  6. Field processing
  7. Dry method
  8. Wet method
  9. Pulped Natural
  10. Flavor Characteristics due to Coffee Processing
  11. Decaffeination
Grinders
  1. Technical characteristics of flat burrs
  2. Technical characteristics of conical burrs
  3. Grinder adjustment
  4. Adjustment of dosing chamber
  5. Filling port filter
  6. Tamping
Water Hardness
  1. Softener resin refresh
  2. Measurement of water pH
  3. Measurement of water hardness
Preparation Ways of Coffee
  1. Ibrik coffee (Turkish)
  2. Instant coffee
    • Hot
    • Cold
    • Filter coffee
    • Drip
    • Percolator
    • French press
    • Espresso
    • Moka pot
  3. Espresso
  4. Cappuccino
  5. Espresso bar
Drinking Chocolate Different ways of preparation
  1. Hot Chocolate
  • In the steamer
  • In the drink mixer
  1. Cold Chocolate
  • In the drink mixer
  • In the blender
  • Cocoa
  • Hot cocoa in the steamer
  • Hot cocoa in the drink mixer
Tea
  1. Different kind of tea
    • Green tea
    • Oolong
    • Black tea
  2.  
  3. Difference between tea and herbals
    • Desirable temperatures
Practical Test
  1. Greek coffee in liquid gas
  2. French Press
  3. Adjusting grinder for espresso
  4. Espresso (ristretto, espresso, lungo)
  5. Cappuccino
  6. Latte
  7. Hot chocolate in the steamer
  8. Cold chocolate in the drink mixer
  9. Green tea
  10. Black tea
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