Trail Blaze Coffee Academy

Congratulations to for completing SCA Barista Intermediate and Brewing Foundation classes last week! It was so much fun watching your barista skills grow through the week. Whichever triangle-area cafe you end up joining will be lucky to have you!

Congratulations to our May Technician Training Foundations class! Great work, Jayden, Melissa, José, Emily, Ben, Elliot, Hong, and Edgar! .tostador .bailey13

Really happy to host this great group of techs from Westrock Coffee for a custom-built week of traditional espresso machine troubleshooting training. Great work Dan, Boe, Robert, Brian, Shelby, Chuck, Jeff, Kerry, Jorge, and JP. And thanks to Shelby and Thom for helping keep everyone out of trouble (mostly). And much gratitude to for making this all happen and co-leading Monday's espresso class - it was great to share a classroom with you again!

Congratulations to our April Café Fundamentals Camp attendees! Katy, Rebecca, and Rick earned their Barista Intermediate certificates, and Anne, Darnell, Mike, and Leo completed Barista Foundation. Great work, all!

Come see us! We're hosting another open bar/open bench this Friday afternoon 2-5pm. We'll have some espresso dialed in AND you may get to participate in a fun science experiment too. DM if you plan to join us!

Catching up with Trail Blaze alumni is always a highlight of SCA shows. It was wonderful to see you all!

Congratulations to our April Tech Foundations class! It was great to work with Brandon, Austin, Dottie, Elle, Noah, Jenna, Ryan, Zack! And we were so happy to have our good friend Spencer join class and lend a hand too! Thank you, all, for a great week!!!

Here's what's coming up over the next few months.⁠
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The calendar now includes trainings that we are doing at other locations plus anything we're doing directly for individual customers. ⁠
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Interested in partnering with us at your location or setting up a class for your group? Contact us at [email protected] and we'll talk about options.

Congratulations to our March Intermediate Diagnostics and Repair class for a great week! We worked hard this week, did a lot of troubleshooting, and started bringing a broken espresso machine back to life. Great job, Michael, Kris, Jacob, and Jess!

Congratulations to our March Technician Training Foundations class! It was great to get to know Ethan, David, Piper, Beau, Sean, Aaron, Josh, and Oliver. Thank you for learning with us!

Coffee friends - come join us at Open Bar (a new thing we're doing this year). We'll open the training center doors at 2pm and closing down at dinner time.

No format, no structure, no plan, just hanging out and having fun with coffee and coffee people. We have some really tasty coffee and a little milk left over from last week's classes, but feel free to byo. The equipment will be powered up and all the brewing toys are ready to use. Come say hi!!!

(Also, many thanks to for making the graphic!!!)