Meet your barista

Colin Fowlow [he/him] is a 27-year-old bicycle nerd, camper van fan, and specialty coffee lover from Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador.

The shtick

Gooseneck Coffee Cart is a passion project that combines everything Colin loves about specialty coffee: building communities, sparking chance conversations, and showing folks just how extraordinary a cup of coffee can be! The idea started out as a mobile coffee bar constructed on a bicycle that served the community in purposeful outdoor spaces. It soon morphed into several ventures (a cozy single-table coffee shop inside an art gallery, a catering service, and Grenfell Campus’s only sit-down coffee shop), but the original objective stayed the same: bring people together through their love of coffee and 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 cafes. 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 races across the Pacific Northwest.

After working in British Columbia and getting acquainted with some of the finest specialty coffee roasters from around the globe, Colin moved back to his hometown in Newfoundland and opened Gooseneck Coffee Cart as a means of sharing his knowledge and passion for coffee while simultaneously supporting up-and-coming specialty coffee roasters close to home.

What’s next?

In the summer of 2025, Colin moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his partner. And so, in 2026, Colin is looking to collaborate with small businesses and institutions to bring Gooseneck Coffee Cart to Nova Scotians and continue growing the Atlantic Canadian third-wave coffee scene through community minded coffee projects.

Do you live in Halifax and want to work with Gooseneck on its next project? Contact Colin at contact@gooseneckcoffeecart.com and use the subject line “Coffee shop idea!” Alternatively, reach out to us on Instagram.