Roasting 102 is the hands-on practicum follow-up to Roasting 101. Students that own a roaster can complete this course virtually via Zoom with our instructors.
- Live, interactive class taught in one 7-hour day with a lunch break.
- 'Class Box' mailed to you before class with greens to roast and coffees to cup. Customized to your machine for optimum batch size.
- Multiple cameras & educators for each session so you don't miss a thing.
- Guided coffee tastings that correlate to each roast exercise with optional instruction on manual brewing.
Note: In the future, we will be able to teach 1-on-1 and small group sessions of this class in our roastery in Minneapolis. If you do not have a roaster and cannot complete this class virtually, contact us to be put on a waitlist for when in-person classes becomes a safe option for everyone involved.
$360 – $600
Schedule
Typically scheduled on a Thursday from 10:00 AM – 5:00PM (CST).
Your ‘Class Box’ will be mailed to you before class. We will also email students 1-2 days before class with more instructions & helpful tips to get started on Zoom and set up for class.
Requests to cancel or change registration date must be made 3 weeks (21 days) before the start of class.
Personalized Instruction
We’ll find out about your roasting machine, goals, and questions to help customize the lesson based on your circumstances. Each student will have a chance to go through their machine separately and dial in roast variables so we can calibrate to your settings for each exercise.
Professional Roasting Skills
Through guided discussion of roast theory and practical advice, learn to identify patterns in your roasting system, utilize data from each roast, and discover variables that affect your product. You’ll learn skills that help great production roasters maintain quality roasts at high volumes.
Interactive Learning
Multiple instructors facilitate demonstration, instruction, and monitoring your questions in the chat box. Get real-time feedback on your roasts, share your roast profiles, and troubleshoot issues in the moment.
Ongoing Education
Each session of this course highlights a specific green selected by our lead roasting instructor Derek Delapaz. If interested, students may elect to take this course more than once, continuing their roasting education by exploring new coffees through the lens of the assigned roast exercises.
James
Very highly recommended! Whether you are just setting up your first machine or already roasting and producing good coffee, roasting and tasting along with Lauren and Derek is extremely valuable. They have professional insight from years of experience in coffee. Being able to ask questions and dial in specific parts of your roast profiles is extremely helpful. Thank you Mill City for providing this experience.
Chris and Katherine
Taking the roasting 102 class was very informative and necessary for any beginner roaster or anyone trying to improve on their roasting skills. Derek and Lauren were great instructors and the class was very interactive. We were able to learn different types of roast profiles and they were able to answer questions we had for a while which made our roast better. I highly recommend this class. Will definitely be taking more classes with them in the future.
Aj Ramirez
This was a great class for a new roaster like myself. Highly recommend taking roasting 101 first so you have a better understanding of why the time in each phase matters. It was great to be able to roast along side Derek and he was able to fix a couple issues I was having by not setting up my controls properly. We did several roast with a couple different profile goals and then talked about what went right and wrong and how to correct the issues in the future. The best part about this was I did it from home where I roast. No traveling or hotels needed.