d3smond |s m3: Path towards coffee~

It is a golden opportunity that was given to me since i am in Holiday Inn Atrium for a period of time.

The Barista training at a barista academy!

This en-kindle my emotion so much which turn out to be the root cause of my insomnia the night before the training.

Head off toward the academy in the morning at Temple ST. It look pretty similar like others shop from the outside but once we entered, we were astonished by all the equipments and a huge variety of coffee syrup as well as coffee beans. As the saying goes, never judge a book by its cover.

After preparing all the equipments and a brief introduce of each other,we started our 1st lesson-espresso extraction.

Herm..not the 1st lesson indeed as we constantly doing this in our cafe~

Although this is not my 1st time, but yet i was able to feel my trembling hands pulling the espresso shot..

I wonder why..

Perhaps my guts was wandering at street when i was facing the pros..

Mistakes and mistakes were corrected and uncountable shots of espresso have been tasted.

The taste?

Gosh!

Sour and Bitter!

I can even smell the espresso when i breathed in the air.

Exaggerated?

I am telling the truth...

After hours of practice and practice,tasting and tasting

I knew that pulling a perfect espresso is not an easy task to accomplish.

Perhaps one can pull a perfect shot one time but keep the consistency is the most tricky part to be done.

From gliding the coffee powder to filling the basket to adjust the level of the powder to tamping the powder to fitting the basket into the machine to observe the color of the espresso shot to cut the espresso shot to cleaning the basket..

Jesus Christ..

How many steps that ought to do in the right ways yet one still unable to pull a perfect shot of espresso..

I suppose this is what we call practice make perfect..

Ultimately i was managed to pull an acceptable yet not perfect(my opinion) espresso and ended this section.