The person responsible for the courses, Professor Hallyson Mermude, has already trained more than a thousand baristas, who are working throughout the national territory.
The history of Santos is the history of coffee in Brazil and it still is! Proof of this is the 50% increase in demand for barista and roasting courses, available at the Coffee Museum Training Center, led by Professor Hallyson Mermude. “After the pandemic, demand intensified a lot, not only for our barista course—which encompasses the basic barista techniques, Latte Art and advanced module—but also for our new course, the roasting course, whose next class takes place on August 27 and 28,” says Hallyson.
In addition to having a fully equipped room inside the Museum, with five espresso coffee machines to teach the barista course, the Museum has recently opened a new space, especially dedicated to the roasting course. “We have a 1.2kg Probatino roaster available for the two-day roasting course, which costs R$750.00. The Coffee Museum’s barista course lasts five days, which includes an extensive teaching material and costs R$ 800.00. At this moment, we are checking possibilities so that, in the near future, the barista course may be completed with a visit to a coffee farm. Students have a great curiosity and are eager to discover coffee at the tree and Santos does not have a space like the Biological Institute of São Paulo, which has an urban coffee plantation,” he explains.
For those interested in obtaining the QGrader certification, Hallyson recommends the Commercial Association course, which is next door to the Coffee Museum. “They have a space dedicated to the QGrader course, with coffee tasting and classification. For our students who want to deepen their knowledge, I strongly recommend.”
The student profile
When Hallyson started teaching at the Museum, little was said about specialty coffees; the focus was another, teaching professionals in the big industry. But the profile of students has been changing since then. Nowadays, most of those who follow his courses are people interested in opening their own business, whether in Brazil or even in other countries, working with specialty coffees.
“The dissemination of knowledge from the Coffee Museum courses is immense—I have already trained more than a thousand professionals. The importance we have in this market is really great. Our courses are monthly, students come from all over Brazil, we take these people to the field and, as we are part of an institution that has a differentiated, cultural performance, we are not committed to brands, but to concepts, with knowledge. And this is very positive. It would be really cool if, in the future, we could have a BSCA (Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association) seal on our course completion certificates.
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Coffee Museum: Rua XV de Novembro, 95, Centro Histórico, Santos, São Paulo
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For more information about courses and vacancies, call (13) 3213 1750
