Questions, answered

Not for the Barista Workshop, Barista Workshop Express or either latte art course. They suit complete beginners and home coffee lovers as well as people starting in a café, and café owners and managers. Barista Level 2 is the exception: it’s for people who’ve done the workshop and spent around 100 hours on an espresso machine.

Most people start with the Barista Workshop, a full Saturday from bean to latte art. If you just want to pour better, try the two-hour Latte Art Masterclass. If you want to work as a barista, the 3-day BSI/QBA includes a day of real work experience. Not sure? Tell us a little about yourself and we’ll point you to the right one.

Barista Workshop €159, Latte Art Masterclass €75, Barista Workshop Express €129, Latte Art Workshop €150, Barista Level 2 €150, and the 3-day BSI/QBA €395 when you book online (€495 standard). Everything you use on the day is included.

The Masterclass is two intensive hours, almost all of it on the machine: perfect your milk, then your pour. The Workshop is a full day that adds milk chemistry, station management and more advanced designs, with coffee and milk for 70+ lattes and an end-of-day assessment.

A lot. We split each course into theory and practical, and keep classes small so everyone gets real time on the machine. On the Barista Workshop there’s coffee and milk for 70+ lattes between a class of six.

Every course starts with the heart, rosetta and tulip. The full-day courses go on to look at further designs, depending on how you’re getting on.

Yes. Our latte art courses cover how dairy, almond, soya and coconut milk behave, and how to get the best from each in the cup.

Yes. Every course ends with a Barista School Ireland certificate. The full-day courses include an end-of-day assessment with your results, and the BSI/QBA comes with a BSI/QBA certificate and a HACCP Level 1 certificate.

You get four weeks of email support, so the questions that come up at your own machine get a proper answer. You also take your course notes home.

Barista School Ireland / Qualified Barista Award, our most complete course. Two classroom days (09:30 to 17:00) cover the Barista Workshop, Barista Level 2, station management, customer service and advanced latte art, followed by a day of work experience. See the full course.

You spend 7+ hours, on a day we agree with you, in a busy specialty coffee shop whose staff have all been trained by Barista School Ireland. You open and close, manage a barista station, use the till, serve customers, make drinks under pressure and put HACCP into practice.

That’s what it’s built for. Day 2 includes a CV review and recommendations if you’d like one, and once you’re BSI/QBA qualified we recommend our graduates to our trade partners when they have barista positions open.

If you’re on a jobseeker’s payment, the Training Support Grant can cover the 3-day BSI/QBA course. See how training grants work.

Every course can be booked online and paid for by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. You see the places left on each date, and your confirmation and a calendar invite arrive by email straight away.

Yes. Call us on 021 424 8717 and we’ll book your place.

Choose it on the booking page and join the waiting list. If a place comes free, we email everyone waiting straight away, and the first person to book gets it.

We sometimes send promo codes to our mailing list. Enter yours in the gift voucher box when you book. One code per booking.

Online booking closes 4 hours before each course starts. If you’re hoping for a place at short notice, give us a call.

Yes, at no charge. Email us their name before the course starts. They need to be 18 or over.

You need to be at least 18 on the day of the course.

Choose an amount from €25 to €500 on our gift voucher page. We email it straight away, or on the morning you choose, so it can land on the birthday itself.

Five years from the day it’s bought. The expiry date is printed on the voucher.

Enter the code when you book online. It works on any course. If the voucher doesn’t cover the full price, you pay the rest by card, and any balance left stays on the code for next time.

Yes. Get in touch and we’ll hold places for you.

Yes, anywhere in Ireland, on your own equipment. See on-site training.

9-11 Pearse Street, Bandon, Co. Cork, P72 CF24. Directions to the entrance come with your booking confirmation. Directions.

There’s on-street parking and car parks around Bandon town. They use parking discs, sold in shops around the town. Check the signs for current times and charges.

Yes, Bandon is served by buses from Cork city. Check Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link for times.

Please arrive 10 minutes before the start. The Barista Workshop runs from 10:30 to 16:00, and the BSI/QBA classroom days from 09:30 to 17:00.

Just yourself. All the equipment, coffee and milk are provided, and you take your notes home with you.