Umami Coffee Camp in HONDURAS - training and leisure activities in a coffee plantation

Umami Coffee Camp in Honduras is a coffee educational campus organized by the Italian Umami Area association with international SCA trainers. During the campus the participants, fully immersed in the amazing world of coffee, have the opportunity the learn about coffee following the Coffee Diploma System by SCA modules. The day consists of two sessions: in the morning the participants have the opportunity to visit the coffee plantations, experiencing the coffee producers daily life, the various phases of the coffee value chain and the places in which it takes place, in order to have a more practical and concrete approach to the world of coffee; instead, during the afternoons, the participants take part in face-to-face in face-to-face professional lectures and trainings of SCA by authorized SCA trainers.

http://www.scae.com/training-and-education/coffee-diploma-system

Participants will stay in “Cooperativa Cafetalera Capucas Limitada (COCAFCAL) - http://mycapucascoffee.coop ”, provided with the classrooms and with a small coffee shop, in which participants can have the practical sessions of the course.

day 1

arrival of participants in San Pedro Sula and transfer to Capucas

day 2

Presentation of the campus: COCAFCAL Cooperative and Umami Area finca Rio colorado project

Coffee plantation workshop: coffee nursery, harvesting and depulping of ripe cherries, coffee processing, natural method, coffee drying (natural and mechanical)

day 3

Trekking in Celaque national park/adventure day, UNESCO heritage, canophy, leisure activities

day 4

Coffee plantation workshop: visit at the Arabica Parainema coffee plantation owned by Noè Portillo. Coffee Diploma System SCA foundation coffee course.

day 5

Santa Rosa di Copan coffee shop tour, visit at Beneficio Planet Coffee – green coffee selection.

day 6

Coffee plantation workshop: visit at the Arabica coffee plantation owned by Francisco Villeda - Panchito. CDS SCA foundation coffee course.

day 7

Coffee cupping sessions and CDS SCA certifications.

Final party.

day 8

Transfer to San Pedro Sula. Departure of participants.

Ask information and the registration form to info@umamiarea.com

Coffee education organized in the Arabica coffee plantations in Vietnam

Umami Coffee Camp is a training coffee journey where the participants can have the best coffee education, directly in the field and in the classroom. The training lessons are more focused on coffee sensory analysis, barista skills (how to brew a good cup of espresso and a cappuccino Latte Art), filter coffee and brewing techniques and coffee roasting. The coffee plantation workouts include also green coffee module (botanical issues, how to manage a coffee plantation, seedling, picking, processing, drying, pruning, etc). 

Participants from Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, Iran and Argentina are join the education agenda together with local coffee professionals and farmers, therefore it is going to be an interesting experience of international knowledge sharing! 

For the fees of the Camp: the offer for this Campus at 1900€ for foreigners, including transport within Vietnam (taxi from airport to hotel, daily transportation); meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner); accommodation in Hotel; visit to plantations (coffee, cocoa, tea); SCA coffee course; tea and chocolate workshops; cultural visits and leisure activities. The price does not include the flight ticket from Europe (or country of origin) to Vietnam, VISA costs, travel insurance and SCA certification fees (if participants want to take the exams). Of course for Vietnamese participants it is going to be different, and it needs to set the price for those coming from Vietnam, depending on what they need in terms of accommodation, meals, transportation, etc. 

day 1
Arrival of participants and transfer to Dalat
Accommodation in Hotel
day 2
Introduction of the Camp: Specialty coffee Scene in Vietnam; Micro and Small Coffee Producers K'Ho Ethnic Minorities.
Introduction to CDS Coffee Courses: Coffee Roasting, Sensory Skills and Green Coffee.
Welcoming Dinner with traditional Vietnamese food and music.
day 3
Fieldwork at Lang Biang Coffee Village: coffee plantations, selective picking, selection of red cherries, coffee plant, botanical varieties, bags transportation, first processing.
Lunch in Coffee Plantation
CDS Coffee Courses: Green Coffee
day 4
CDS Coffee Courses: green, roasting and sensory
Chocolate sensory analysis
CDS Coffee Courses: green, roasting and sensory
Night Food Market in Dalat
day 5
Visit to a Traditional Vietnamese Market
CDS Coffee Courses: green, roasting and sensory
Cultural Visit: Linh Phuoc Pagoda
Traditional Dinner with a Vietnamese family
day 6
Visit to Tea Plantations of Long Dinh Company with courses on tea picking, processing and tea sensory analysis
Cultural Visit: Golden Buddha and Flower Park
day 7
Fieldwork at a Coffee Village: Arabica and Robusta, hulling machine, moisture meter, drying room, processing methods and Vietnam Specialty Coffee Market
Lunch with the producers at Coffee Village
Transfer to Ho Chi Minh City
day 8
Visit to Specialty Coffee Shop Bosgaurus
CDS Coffee Courses at Bosgaurus Coffee Shop
CDS Coffee Courses: green, roasting and sensory
Cultural Visit: Independence Palace, War Remnant Museum
day 9
Visit to  Coffee Shop The Workshop
CDS Coffee Courses The Workshop Coffee Shop and public event
Tea Ceremony with Tra Viet: Vietnamese traditional ceremony with tea sensory analysis of Green Tea, Black Tea, Snow Tea, Ancient Tea, Lotus Tea and Matcha Tea
Night Market and Saigon by night
day 10
Departure of participants

 

Info: ermanno.perotti@umamiarea.com