Specialty Coffee Association
Q Grader Program
Your Coffee Career Starts Here!
Get started with coffee education through our certificate programs. Each program is designed to help you build expertise in different areas of the coffee industry.
SCA Q Grader Program
The Q Grader Program is specialty coffee’s leading license for professionals, encompassing cupping, sensory analysis, and green coffee evaluation.
Knowledge for Every Stage of Your Career
The Q Grader course curriculum prepares coffee professionals to demonstrate their ability to evaluate coffee by its physical, descriptive, affective, and extrinsic assessments. Graduates earn the globally respected Q Grader license, a mark of excellence recognized across the global coffee value chain.
Your Pathway to the Q Grader License
Whether you are new to the Q Grader Program or looking to take the fast track to the updated Q Grader or Q Instructor license, there are multiple pathways available. Follow the links below to learn more about each journey.
Q Graader
The updated Q Grader Program has been designed for experienced coffee professionals with a curriculum that tests their ability to detect differences and defects, describe sensory profiles, and apply the Coffee Value Assessment in real-world contexts. Participants will enhance their sensory acuity, ensuring they have the tools to evaluate and communicate coffee’s value clearly and confidently.
The result? A global network of modern Q Graders who share an understanding of quality that is aligned with the latest developments in sensory science and that reflects the diversity, ingenuity and continued evolution of the modern coffee industry.
Meet The Trainer
A. Erhan Dizbay
Authorized SCA (Specialty Coffee Association) since 2016
Achivment:
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1st Place National Barista Championship 2026
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1st Place National Cup Tasters Championship 2026
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2nd Place National Barista Championship 2023
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2nd Place National Barista Championship 2022
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World Barista Championship Competitor Melbourne 2022
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Semi-Finalist at National Aeropress Championship 2022
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Semi-finalist at National Cup Tasters Championship 2022
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2nd Place National Barista Championship 2021
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2nd Place National Barista Championship 2020
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2nd Place NNBK Barista Championship 2019
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3rd Best Coffee Bar Dutch Hospitality Award 2018
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1st Best Coffee Bar of the State Dutch Hospitality Award 2018
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1st Best Coffee Bar in a Hotel Dutch Hospitality Award 2018
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Top 5 Entree Best Barista Competition of the Netherlands 2018
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1st place North Netherlands Barista Championship 2017-2018
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4th place National Barista Championship 2015
Specialty Coffee Association
Coffee Sustainability Program
Sustainability must be embraced by all actors in the value chain if the specialty coffee industry is to survive and thrive. The Coffee Sustainability Program is designed to explore what sustainability means and the challenges of acting sustainably across the coffee value chain.