Barista courses in Ashford for home coffee lovers, complete beginners and working baristas. Learn espresso, milk texturing and latte art on a real speciality coffee bar, or bring us in to train your café team anywhere in Kent.
Whether you want better coffee from your machine at home or a team that can run a busy bar, every session is built around you. Pick your side and send us an enquiry. We'll come back with a plan and a price.
For anyone who's bought a decent machine and wants café-quality coffee out of it, or who just wants to know more about what's in the cup. Relaxed, hands-on and pitched at your level.
Great for: complete beginners, home espresso owners, latte art hopefuls and anyone after a coffee experience gift.
1:1 or small group sessions, after 2pm or in the evening once the shop has closed, so you get the bar to yourself. Gift vouchers available.
Professional barista training for cafés, restaurants, hotels and new coffee businesses, plus career-focused courses for individuals who want to work on bar. Taught to the standard we run our own shop to.
Great for: new starters, whole teams, owners opening a coffee business and anyone building a barista career.
At EspressBros in Ashford or on-site on your own machine, anywhere in Kent. Certificate of completion included.
Every barista course is tailored, but these are the building blocks we draw from, whether you're making coffee at home or running a busy café bar.
Grind size, dose, yield and time. How to pull a balanced shot, taste what's wrong and fix it.
Silky microfoam for flat whites, lattes and cappuccinos, with dairy and plant milks.
From your first heart to tulips and rosettas, through to advanced pours for working baristas.
Setting up your grinder and espresso machine each day, at home or on a commercial bar.
Pour-over, batch brew and more. Recipes, ratios and brewing filter coffee you'll actually enjoy.
How origin, process and roast show up in the cup, and how to describe what you taste.
Bar layout, milk and shot timing, and keeping quality up through a rush.
Daily and weekly machine and grinder cleaning to keep coffee tasting right and kit running.
15+ years behind the bar. Lee has spent his whole working life in coffee, from pulling shots on busy café bars to opening EspressBros in Ashford and building our own coffee brand.
That means you're learning from someone who does this every day: the recipes we dial in each morning, the workflow that gets us through a Saturday rush, and the small habits that turn a decent coffee into a great one.
No jargon for the sake of it. Just hands-on, practical barista training you can take straight back to your kitchen or your bar.
Train on the same commercial espresso machine and grinders we serve from every day, not a classroom setup.
No fixed syllabus. We plan each session around your level, your goals and, where possible, your machine.
Most of the session is you on the machine, pulling shots and pouring milk, with us right beside you.
An Ashford speciality coffee house, training people and businesses across Kent.
Barista training and coffee courses from our speciality coffee house in Ashford town centre, a few minutes' walk from Ashford International. Home barista and latte art classes in Ashford, with commercial and on-site staff training across Kent: Canterbury, Maidstone, Folkestone, Tenterden, Hythe, Dover, Faversham, Tunbridge Wells and everywhere in between.
Every session is tailored, so we price it once we know what you're after. Send us an enquiry with your experience level, what you want to learn and how many people, and we'll come back with a price.
No. Our home barista sessions start from complete beginner, and we pitch every session to where you're at, whether you've never touched an espresso machine or you're chasing a better rosetta.
Home barista sessions run on our commercial espresso bar at 10–12 Middle Row, Ashford, Kent TN24 8SQ. Commercial training can run at EspressBros or on-site at your café, restaurant or hotel anywhere in Kent, on your own machine.
It depends on what you want to cover. A focused latte art or home machine session is shorter than full new-staff training for a team. Tell us your goals and we'll recommend the right length when we reply.
Home sessions run outside opening hours, in the afternoon after 2pm or in the evening, so you get the bar to yourself. Commercial training is arranged around your business.
Yes. Milk texturing and latte art are among our most requested topics, from your first heart through tulips and rosettas, up to advanced latte art for working baristas.
Yes. We train new starters, whole café teams and staff at restaurants, hotels, pubs and offices, at our bar or on-site across Kent. We can also help new coffee businesses with setup and menu.
Our career-focused course is built for exactly that: espresso, milk, workflow and speed on a real commercial bar, with a certificate of completion from EspressBros to show employers.
Commercial and career-focused barista courses include a certificate of completion from EspressBros.
Yes. Barista experience gift vouchers are available and make a great present for coffee lovers. Choose "Gift voucher" on the home barista enquiry form and we'll sort it.
Yes. Tell us what machine and grinder you use and we'll cover dialling in, grind size, dose and ratios so you can repeat it at home.
Yes. We're in Ashford town centre, a short drive from Canterbury, Folkestone, Maidstone, Tenterden and Hythe, and a few minutes' walk from Ashford International. For businesses we'll come to you anywhere in Kent.
Tell us where you're at and what you want to learn. We'll come back with a plan and a price.