Coffee Geek Out with Holly

Join our RoastRatings.com's Holly Bastin to expand your coffee horizons and learn some espresso machine basics!

This 2 hour Experience with Holly will give you and your friends an oppurtunity to step on the other side of the espresso bar and learn some tricks of the trade.

2 hour RSVP on Eventbrite $65.00 ea, 6 tickets per event.

Take home knowledge and a bag of espresso coffee beans.

Learn:

Espresso (preparation, grinding beans, tamping, dailing it in)

Milk Steaming Basics

Try your hand at latte Art.

Who will be training you?

Holly Bastin!

Coffee Experience

● 23 Years - Total Time in Coffee

○ Espresso Vita - 1 year

○ PT’s Coffee Roasting Co. - 13 years

○ About The Coffee - 7 Years

○ Licata Coffee Consultants - 6 years

○ Roast Ratings - 5 years

○ Coffee is People - 2 years

● 20 Years - Training and Curriculum Building Experience

○ PT’s Coffee Roasting Co.

○ Licata Coffee Consultants

○ Coffee is People

○ About The Coffee

● 18 Years - Competition Coaching, Judging & Mentorship

○ PT’s Coffee Roastings Co.

○ Licata Coffee Consultants

○ Coffee is People

○ Glitter Cat Barista Bootcamp Instructor

● 17 Years - Retail Customer Service

○ Osco Drug

○ Espresso Vita

○ PT’s Coffee Roasting Co

○ Blockbuster Video

○ Signs of Life

○ Barnes & Noble

○ About The Coffee

○ Parisi Artisan Coffee

○ Thou Mayest

○ Messenger Coffee

○ Transit Coffee

○ PH Coffee

● 14 Year - Quality Control, Blending & Evaluation

○ PT’s Coffee Roasting Co.

○ Licata Coffee Consultants

○ Roast Ratings

○ Coffee is People

● 8 Years - Retail Management

○ PT’s College Square

○ PT’s Edwards Campus

○ PT’s Barrington Village

○ PT’s College Hill

○ Transit Coffee KC

○ PH Coffee

● 9 Years - Consulting and Mentorship

○ Licata Coffee Consultants

○ Coffee is People

● 5 Years - Roasting/Wholesale Customer Service

○ PT’s Coffee Roasting Co.

● 5 years - Business Ownership

○ Roast Ratings

○ Coffee is People

Achievements & Certifications

● 2004 - Present : Competitive Coach & Mentor USCC/WCE Competitions Over my career I have coached

○ 3 World Champions

○ 5 World Finalists

○ 7 National Champions

○ 18 National Finalists

○ 13 Regional Champions

○ 32 Regional Finalists

● 2006 - 2015 : US Barista Championship Events Through SCA

○ Head Judge

○ Sensory Judge

○ Technical Judge

○ Event Head Judge

○ Judge Trainer

○ Calibration Barista

● 2015 - 2021 : Certified Q Grader from CQI

● 2004 : Favorite Barista in Kansas City by eKC Magazine

Writing & Publications

Over the years I have had articles published in the following periodicals

● Fresh Cup Magazine

● Barista Magazine

● Coffee Talk Magazine

● 435 Magazine

Host or Publisher PH Coffee