Meet your barista

Colin Fowlow [he/him] is a 25-year-old amateur bike racer, cyclo tourist, and specialty coffee lover from Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

The shtick

Gooseneck Coffee Cart is a passion project that combines everything Colin loves about specialty coffee: building communities, sparking conversation, and showing people just how extraordinary a cup of coffee can be! The idea is simple: a mobile coffee bar, constructed on a bicycle, that serves the community in purposeful outdoor spaces. The objective: to bring people together through their love of coffee, and to grow the third-wave coffee culture in Atlantic Canada.

The low down

In 2016, Colin moved to Victoria, British Columbia, to pursue a career in professional road cycling. Cycling and coffee culture go hand in hand, so it wasn't long before Colin started exploring Victoria's vibrant community of third-wave cafés. He discovered how amazingly fruit-forward a naturally processed Ethiopian espresso could taste, and he became mesmerized by the chemistry-lab-like process of extracting coffees with a V60. Eventually, while racing for various amateur British Columbian cycling teams, Colin found a home at Victoria's Hide + Seek Coffee (a welcoming little family-run multiroaster with world-class coffees and a passionate community of regulars) in between racing events across the Pacific Northwest.

Five Ws

Hide + Seek Coffee taught Colin that a café's atmosphere is as important as the drink in a customer’s cup. That's why Gooseneck Coffee Cart always plays a kaleidoscopic compilation of vinyl, offers reading material from the most interesting voices in coffee and cycling, and carries a multifarious array of artwork and goods. Expect original ceramics, limited-run silkscreened Ts, and more! Reach out to Colin at contact@gooseneckcoffeecart.com if you’re an artist who would like to collaborate.

Besides being your new fave outdoor-neighbourhood-coffee-stand, Gooseneck Coffee Cart is proud to be Newfoundland's premier multiroaster. (A multiroaster is a coffee shop that uses and sells coffee from multiple roasters.) Gooseneck carries a variety of coffees from the best third-wave roasters in every Atlantic province—the only multiroaster in the country to do so! If you’re looking to sample Atlantic Canada’s finest coffee beans, Gooseneck Coffee Cart is the only place you will find them all in one place.

Come say hello

Gooseneck Coffee Cart is currently running a winter/spring-long pop-up at Picture It In A Frame in Corner Brook. Coffee and merchandise is sold from Tuesday to Friday, 8 AM to 3 PM. Once the snow melts, outdoor vending on the bicycle will resume. Gooseneck Coffee cart is located on traditional unceded Mi'kmaw territory. Follow the Gooseneck Coffee Cart Instagram for updates, locations, and hours.

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