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Keep practising at home

Practical guides from Barista School Ireland, made to print and keep beside the machine, and a full start-up kit for opening your own coffee business. Emailed to you as a download link straight after payment.

The Home Barista Handbook and the Latte Art Practice Plan, with a gift tag
The gift for coffee loversSave €6

Home Barista Gift Bundle

Our Home Barista Handbook and Latte Art Practice Plan together, ready to give. Emailed to them on the day you choose with your message, or to you to hand over.

  • The Home Barista Handbook: dialling in, recipes, milk, cleaning and a four-week practice plan
  • The Latte Art Practice Plan: 21 short daily drills, from a first heart to a tulip and a rosetta
  • Sent to them by email on the morning you choose, with your message, or to you to print or forward
  • Two guides for €25 instead of €31

Two PDF guides · 26 pages in all · For personal use

€25€31
Cover of the Home Barista Handbook
For home espresso

Home Barista Handbook

Everything we teach about espresso at home, in one handbook to keep beside your machine.

  • Dialling in, step by step
  • Recipes, ratios and a troubleshooting table
  • Milk for each drink, and a cleaning routine
  • A four-week practice plan, a dial-in log and a drinks menu card to print

PDF · 16 pages · For personal use

After the Barista Workshop, Express or Level 2, or for anyone with a home machine

€19
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For your pour

Latte Art Practice Plan

Twenty-one short daily drills that take you from your first heart to a tulip and a rosetta.

  • Milk texture checkpoints
  • Where to hold the jug and cup at each stage
  • Common faults and how to fix them
  • A printable tracker to see your progress

PDF · 10 pages · For personal use

After the Latte Art Masterclass or the latte art part of the Barista Workshop

€12
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For café teams

Café Barista Toolkit

The systems that keep a café’s coffee the same on every shift. Print it, copy it, and keep it on the clipboard by the machine.

  • Opening and closing checklists
  • A daily calibration log and a recipe standard sheet
  • A two-week onboarding plan for new baristas
  • A cleaning schedule and a quality spot-check form

PDF · 15 pages · For use across your business

For café owners, managers and BSI/QBA graduates

€49
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For new coffee businesses

Coffee Business Start-up Kit

Everything we would want in front of us before opening a café, a coffee kiosk or a coffee van in Ireland: the plan, the paperwork and the numbers.

  • A 48-page guide: choosing a format and site, registrations, VAT, food safety and employment in Ireland, equipment, roasters, pricing and a 12-week launch plan
  • A business plan template laid out for banks, Microfinance Ireland and LEOs
  • Five working spreadsheets: start-up costs, menu pricing and margins, break-even and 12-month cash flow, a weekly KPI and stock tracker, and an equipment budget
  • A directory of 45 Irish specialty roasters, checked October 2026
  • Six printable worksheets, from a site scorecard to a fridge temperature log

ZIP download · 48-page guide, business plan template (Word and PDF), 5 spreadsheets for Google Sheets or Excel, roaster directory · For use in your business

For anyone planning a café, kiosk, coffee van or trailer, and for BSI/QBA graduates going it alone

€249
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