Casa Cafe Cultor, Cafe 18 Rosales and a third stop, all inside Chapinero, all under a mile apart.
Coffees from different Colombian growing regions, side by side, not one after another.
The trade's own method: break the crust, smell it, slurp from the spoon, write down what you got.
The listing is specific about this, and it is why the workshop suits visitors rather than residents.
The walk crosses a neighbourhood of English-style houses that most visitors never reach.
You meet inside Casa Cafe Cultor on Calle 70a and start with a tasting and the map: where coffee grows in Colombia, why it matters to millions of families, and what the regions taste like against each other. Then you walk — a few blocks through Quinta Camacho, a district of English-style houses and small restaurants — to the next room.
The second stop moves from geography to method. Roasting, brewing, and the vocabulary for what you are drinking, which is the part most visitors leave without. By the third room you are scoring cups rather than just liking them, and the difference is permanent.
It finishes near Carrera 5, a short taxi from most of the city. Nothing about the day needs a vehicle, an early alarm or a spare day, which is the whole argument for it — and at under fifty dollars it is the cheapest way into coffee tours in Bogota that exists.
You have a morning rather than a day, you are staying in or near Chapinero, or you already brew at home and want the vocabulary. It is capped at ten, it runs on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and it is the gentlest thing here on the legs.
You want to stand in a coffee field. No workshop in the city can give you the plant, the wet mill or the drying beds, and if that is what you came for the hands-on farm day puts you on a working smallholding with a basket in your hand.
Inside Casa Cafe Cultor at Calle 70a #9-44, in Chapinero. Go in rather than waiting on the street. It finishes a few blocks away near Carrera 5.
Four to six across the two hours, from three different rooms. There is no decaf option. A later slot is the usual advice if caffeine affects you.
Yes, and that is who it is built for. The guide is fluent in English and starts with the regions rather than the jargon. Travellers who do not normally drink coffee say the history carried them through.
Yes, and in that order it works well. The farm shows you the crop and the processing; this shows you the roast and the cup. The hands-on farm day is the natural pair.
Yes, at every stop, and travellers regularly go back to the rooms afterwards to buy more. Bring room in your luggage. The shops will grind to your method if you ask.
No. The meeting point is easy to find and in a safe neighbourhood, so a taxi or a short walk is all it takes. It is excluded from the fare deliberately.
Three coffee shops around Chapinero, and worth knowing this is not La Candelaria — it is a 20 to 25 minute taxi if that is where you are staying. Daniela was patient with us, and we were three adults and a baby.
Lara, United States · December 2022 · family
Bogota Coffee tasting · Specialty coffee workshop
We worked through three roasteries, the regions Colombian coffee comes from, and the history of the drink worldwide. Then we practised cupping properly. I learned a great deal in two hours.
Eva, United States · October 2022 · solo
Bogota Coffee tasting · Specialty coffee workshop
Laura knew the coffee belt and how the crop is grown and processed, and explained both without lecturing. A very good use of a morning.
Kristen, United States · July 2025 · couple
Bogota Coffee tasting · Specialty coffee workshop
If this one is not yours, the other two featured days are a hands-on day on a women-led smallholding, meeting in La Candelaria and a farm day with hotel pickup that stops at a viewpoint over Tequendama Falls.