We have a very special episode of 3 Litre Thursdays for you all today. We had the pleasure of sitting down with Alejandro, Giancarlo and Mark from Caravela Coffee, who as many of you know, is our main supplier of green coffee, and for good reason.
We planned to leave early Thursday morning, meet at the Caravela office in Manly, cup some coffee with them, record a podcast and then record another quick one down at barefoot in Manly town with Ferg and try and squeeze in another cafe visit on the way back to the airport. This did not go to plan! 4:45am Thursday morning begins with the fantastic news of a cancelled flight. As we discuss via text message what to do, we agree the practical thing to do is throw in the towel, stay at home and work something out long distance. So of course we re-book the next available flight which leaves us with a total of 4 hours on the ground in Sydney.
We got into Sydney and head straight over to the lovely Laurie Holmes cafe, Orwells. Where he kindly let us commandeer some space to record and he even brewed us 3, 1 litre batches of coffee and kept us fed and hydrated through out the recording. Please get to the cafe ASAP!
As you can imagine this is a coffee heavy podcast! We talk to the guys about all aspects of the business. If you've ever wanted to know more about the what dictates quality, how hard farmers have to work to produce quality coffee, and how we can as end consumers can connect and positively impact the grower, then this is the episode for you, kid! Not all the questions we had were answered but hopefully we will get some longer form written answers to several of the questions to post on our website. The guys were so considered with their answers and are true professionals of specialty coffee world.
Finally, a big thank you to Mark, Alejandro and Giancarlo for adapting to our last minute location change and still fitting us in to their schedule. Laurie and the Orwells team for accomodating us and keeping our cups and bellies full.
We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed creating it.
As always thank you for all your support. Let's keep doing this for a long time!
For more information on Caravela coffee and to keep up with the latest news head over to
https://caravela.coffee/
https://www.instagram.com/caravelacoffee/
If you haven't checked out Orwells in Potts Point. Just go! Life changing stuff.
Orwells coffee
https://www.instagram.com/orwellscoffee/
