Dial In Espresso by Taste: Fix Sour or Bitter Shots

Launch offer: free for the first 10 learners.

A calm, step-by-step method for Bambino, Dedica and budget machines, including pressurised baskets. Your machine can make good espresso. What’s missing is a method. In about an hour of short lessons, you’ll learn to taste a shot, name what’s wrong in one word, change one thing, and pull again, until you have a recipe you can repeat every morning.

Stuck on one problem right now? Our espresso troubleshooting guide matches common symptoms to their likely cause and first fix.

Prefer paper? Our free Espresso Dial-In Chart & Shot Log puts the taste-to-fix table and a shot log on two printable pages.

This is a practical skills course, made by the ProCoffeeAcademy editorial team. Recipes are starting points; your coffee, grinder and machine will shape the result.

Format: short video lessons with diagrams and licensed stock footage, a printable workbook with shot log and recipe cards, and a downloadable certificate of completion.

Certificate of completion

Finish all 10 lessons and 5 quizzes, then download the certificate PDF from the final lesson’s downloads, type your name and completion date, and save or print it. It’s a record of completing this course, not an accredited qualification.