Coffee tasting workshop at the Hola Coffee academy, Carabanchel

In the classroom of the roaster Hola Coffee you learn to taste coffee the way professionals do, across three tables. At the first you train your nose with a box of more than 36 aromas; at the second you tell apart in water the five basic tastes and the types of acidity that appear in a coffee; at the third you do a Brazilian-style tasting or cupping, with the guidelines for scoring and several origins and varieties in the cups. You leave with a sharper sense of smell and a new way of looking at the bag of coffee at home.

Three tables to train your nose and palate

The workshop lasts three hours and costs €70. The published dates are mostly Saturdays from 10:00 to 13:00, from 21 November to 19 December 2026 and others until February 2027; some fall on a Sunday, and the February ones are in the afternoon, from 15:00 to 18:00. No experience is needed: sensory analysis can be trained. If you only want a peek, on Thursdays from 18:00 to 19:00 the team opens its weekly quality-control tasting to the public, with all the coffees on the menu and one or two still to arrive, for €20.

Next to the roastery, near Oporto metro

The sessions are held in the training classroom, in the same building as the roastery and the Roastery café: Avenida de Pedro Díez, 21, in Carabanchel. The nearest station is Oporto, on lines 5 and 6, about five minutes' walk; Urgel, on line 5, is also close. You buy in the online shop by choosing the date. Watch out for the cancellation terms: full refund only up to 21 days before, half up to 48 hours before, and nothing after that.