Welcome to the Cottle Coffee Academy

Develop Skills - Get Certified - Grow a Career in Coffee

We are a small team dedicated to helping you understand the Science and Art of Coffee.

Whether you just have a general interest and you want to explore coffee’s potential in our low cost workshops: INTRODUCING SPECIALTY COFFEE | BARISTA BASICS FOR HOME | FILTER FUNDAMENTALS | LATTE ART.

Or perhaps you want to actually develop skills as a professional Barista or Coffee Roaster in our professional BARISTA and ROASTER courses.

Or maybe you already have some experience, so your looking to have your skills recognised through Specialty Coffee Association certification: SCA COURSES.

Alternatively you may be looking for a course that specialises in CAFE MANAGEMENT.

Either way, the Cottle Coffee Academy has a course for you.

From beginner to expert - we have a course for everyone!

Our Academy Director (Tristan Creswick, the World Espresso Championship founder) has spent the better part of his 27+ year career discovering effective methods that teach others the complicated aspects of coffee, in as short a time as possible.

We’ve trained over 5500 Barista in Australia, new zealand, italy, USA, PHILIPPINES, SINGAPORE, THAILAND, CAMBODIA, Vietnam & Malaysia

Pass Exams. Be Recognised. Get Certified

Two Day Barista Course

espresso based beverages

The Two Day Barista class is suitable for anyone that has little or no experience and is designed to include enough practical time to build the skills that enable you to operate as a professional barista. You’ll learn how to calibrate a coffee grinder (for espresso), prepare the popular drinks from a Cafe Menu, maintain coffee equipment, and even includes basic Latte Art!

This course is designed to be the ONLY course you NEED to get started working with coffee.

Five Day Barista Course

espresso based beverages

Two Days is the bare minimum (we have found) someone needs to dedicate in order to be able to develop basic professional barista skills, then after the class students continue to practice to reach perfection. But for those that would like to speed up the process to expert, we suggest continuing for another 3 days (5 days total) so you can learn more than 2+ types of Latte Art patterns, have more practice tasting different single origins and blends, extra time to practice making multiple drinks orders, it also includes (no extra fees) the SCA Barista Intermediate certification, plus so much more!

This course is best for anyone wanting to get started working as a barista, and its also ideal for anyone planning to open a cafe.

Two Day Roaster Course

professional roasting COURSE

The Two Day Roaster course is suitable for anyone that has little or no experience and is designed to include enough practical time to build the skills that enable you to operate as a professional coffee roaster.

This course is designed to be the ONLY course you NEED to get started roasting coffee.