Panagiotis Nikas
The Coffee Expert
Panagiotis Nikas holds a Coffee Diploma from Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) and is an authorized SCA trainer for Barista Skills Module.
He has been working in the coffee sector since 1987, when coffee was not the major beverage in the market. He had the opportunity to participate in the evolution of coffee and witness the change in people’s preference in his coffee shops that operated for 22 years.
This gave him a vast knowledge to be able to work as a coffee consultant, a profession that led him to start the Barista Academy the most properly structured training facilities in Athens providing an individual coffee station for each of the participants.
He published 4 books:
The handbook of Home Barista (only in Greek)
On a coffee trip in Ethiopia (bilingual Greek and English)
On a coffee trip in Costa Rica (translated into English)
On a coffee trip in Brazil (translated into English)