🎄 The Espresso Lounge Christmas Barista Experience
A 3-Hour Masterclass in the Art of Coffee — £250 per person
This Christmas, we’re opening the doors to something truly special at The Espresso Lounge — a hands-on, craft-driven barista training experience designed for anyone who wants to understand coffee the way we do.
Over three immersive hours, you’ll step behind the bar and learn the fundamentals of becoming a barista — not just how to make coffee, but how to think like a barista. This isn’t a quick demo or a casual tasting. It’s a deep dive into the craft, taught on our state-of-the-art Victoria Arduino machine, using speciality coffee sourced, roasted and brewed with intention.
Perfect as a gift… or as a treat for yourself.
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What You’ll Learn
1) Understanding Your Machine
Get hands-on with a commercial-grade setup and learn how a professional barista reads, controls and works with their espresso machine.
2) Dialling In Your Shots
Learn the science of grind size, yield, timing and consistency — the building blocks of every great cup.
3) Espresso Tasting & Extraction Theory
Taste like a pro. Recognise under vs. over extraction, understand what went wrong, and learn how to correct it.
4) Texturing Milk
From silky microfoam to clean pour control — master the texture that separates café coffee from home coffee.
5) Crafting the Perfect Flat White
Bring everything together and create the drink that defines our bar: balanced, sweet, and beautifully textured.
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Why This Course Is Worth It
• Taught by expert baristas who live the craft every day
• Limited spaces for personal, focused, one-to-one teaching
• Use of top-tier equipment rarely accessible to the public
• Three hours of hands-on training you can’t get anywhere else
• Leave with knowledge, confidence — and café-level skills
• A Christmas gift that’s meaningful, memorable and practical
This is more than a coffee class.
It’s the craft behind The Espresso Lounge — shared.
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Perfect for coffee lovers, aspiring baristas, or anyone who just wants to understand their morning ritual on a deeper level.
Dates:
Courses will run between:Â
13th - 15th JAN 2pm - 5pm OR 20th - 22nd 5pm - 8pm
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Barista life
Baristas today have access to a wide variety of high quality, speciality coffee producers and can hone their craft with a great variety of brewing methods. Barista Life works closely with these producers to deliver the finest beans around and not only that, can provide essential training to you and your staff to ensure the perfect cup of coffee reaches your customer, every time.Â
Join Our Journey
To date our Head Barista Aron has made over a million of coffees during his time, that’s a lot right? His dedication and skill has benefited coffee shops around the E.U., Canada, New York & his home city London. In 2010 Aron started with a mobile espresso van which taught him just how difficult it can be to manage different bean densities in England’s inclement weather. Determined to master the art of consistency, he spent days testing coffees from around the world, roasting different blends to formulate a recipe that would deliver a consistent base flavour within a temperature range of -5’c to 35’c. Most coffee shops are fitted with air conditioning units which assist in maintaining that consistency, but without that luxury Aron’s understanding of the volatility of coffee grew considerably.
The business expanded in 2011 when both Aron and his wife, Clare, took on a failing coffee shop after the recession with aim to give it life. With previous experience in hospitality and business management, their dedication and hard graft paid off and The Espresso Lounge Tring is a successful coffee shop and cafe with several TripAdvisor awards and fantastic reviews.
They remain within this lucrative industry to date and can offer invaluable knowledge to new business start ups or those wishing to train their baristas to the highest possible standard. Barista equipment, coffee machines, sales training and business consultancy are all available through Barista Life and can set your business on the path to success.
"Join our journey"
