Royal Coffee is proud to announce our fourth installment of Crown on the Road, coffee courses & events coming to a city near you!
Join us while we anticipate the opening of The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room. These courses are a must take for production roasters, home roasters, green coffee buyers & aspiring coffee professionals.
Introduction to Green Coffee Buying with Chris Kornman
Buying green coffee isn’t like going to the grocery store! Intro to Green Coffee Buying will provide students with an introduction to the global coffee trade and equip them to manage their purchasing decisions effectively. New to buying coffee? Looking to learn industry best practices? This is the course for you!
The course is highly recommended for anyone, experienced or not, who is thinking about or currently buying green coffee. The class includes an overview and detailed discussion about the following topics:
- Coffee Production
- Supply Chain Logistics
- The C Market
- Exporting and Importing
- INCOterms
- Green Coffee Sourcing Strategies and Skills
Green Coffee Analytics plus Roasting Styles & Impact on Flavor with Chris Kornman & Jen Apodaca
This two-part, day-long interactive class lays the groundwork for thorough understanding of green coffee quality’s impact on roasting, and how these theories can be practically applied in three distinct roasting philosophies.
Green Coffee Analytics is highly recommended for roasters and green buyers. Course work will move beyond simple analyses methods to highlight specifics of how a coffee’s physical quality affects global trade, roasting methods, and flavors. The course includes detailed analysis and three tasting sessions to dive deep into the importance of Screen Size, Density, and Moisture Content & Water Activity. After completing the first half of the class, you’ll:
- Be able to implement green coffee analysis methods in your place of work
- Understand the relationship of green quality to global trade to make better decisions
- Utilize green quality to your benefit to make informed choices during roasting
Roasting Styles & Impact on Flavor – Looking to add some skills to your roasting tool kit? Here, you’ll learn three distinct roasting theories. We will demonstrate how to apply them in a drum roaster and evaluate their success on the cupping table with several coffees of varied origin, density, screen size, and moisture content. Students will be introduced to the following roasting theories:
- Keeping the Rate of Rise in Constant Descent – Scott Rao
- Elongating the Maillard Reactions for Body – Rob Hoos
- Resting after First Crack – the “S” Curve technique by Ed Leebrick
Past Courses
Chicago
Coffee Fest Happy Hour with Royal NY at Dark Matter’s Meddle Coffee Bar – Saturday, June 10
Happy Hour, 6:00
Metropolis Coffee Company – Monday, June 12
Intro to Green Coffee Buying, 1pm – 3pm – $150
Free Cupping, 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Happy Hour, 6:00
Seattle
La Marzocco Lab & Showroom (Ballard) – Monday, July 10
Intro to Green Coffee Buying, 1pm – 3pm – $100
Free Cupping, 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Husky Grind, University of Washington – Tuesday, July 11
Green Coffee Analytics / Roasting Styles, 10am – 4pm – $500
Happy Hour, 5:00
Both Days Classes (Save $50) – Monday & Tuesday July 10-11
Intro to Green Coffee Buying & Green Coffee Analytics / Roasting Styles – $550
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About the Instructors
Chris Kornman, Education and Lab Manager, Royal Coffee, Inc.:
Chris Kornman is a seasoned coffee quality specialist with a decade of experience working at Intelligentsia Coffee with Geoff Watts as a cupper, educator, green coffee buyer, and roaster. Chris logged thousands of miles and hours across the coffee lands in East Africa and Brazil, though lately his focus has been developing educational curriculum and written media for The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room. Whether to a room of 300 Anacafé members in Guatemala City, 100 attendees at the Roasters Guild Sensory Summit at UC Davis, or one-on-one training, his passion for education knows no boundaries. Chris rides a 1986 Schwinn Prelude, plays Washburn B-17 5-string banjo and Bach Stradivarius Bb trumpet, and always carries a Frisbee – just in case.
Jen Apodaca, Director of Roasting, Royal Coffee, Inc.:
Jen started roasting coffee in 2005 for McMenamins Inc. in Portland, Oregon. She has roasted coffee for Ecco Caffe, Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea, and Blue Bottle Coffee. She is now the Director of Roasting for The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room. She has experience on several styles of roasting machines and is dedicated to the craft of making coffee more delicious. She serves on the SCAA’s Roaster’s Guild Executive Council, is a certified Q-Grader, is the Chair Emeritus of the Coffee Committee of the Good Food Awards and has been an international juror for the Cup of Excellence.
Do you ever plan on coming to South Carolina or North Carolina??
No plans as of now, but don’t rule it out just yet! You must join us in Oakland, Ca when we open The Crown.
Do you do webinars, i am interesetd in taking your courses but currently out of the country. or will you be coming out to SE Asia anytime? i am sourcing coffee out here.
Hi Will
Currently, we don’t have webinars planned or any international educational opportunities. Please sign up for our newsletter on the homepage to ensure you keep up to date on all future events. We hope you can join us in Oakland, CA when we open The Crown.