Prior to COVID-19, the café or coffee house served as a meeting place and opportunity for social contact for the whole community.
But following more than a year of restrictions, lockdowns, and business disruptions, the ways people make, buy, and drink coffee has changed. More people are working from and making coffee at home, and Penny Wolff of Wolff Coffee Roasters tells BeanScene the roaster has worked hard to find ways of recreating that social connection and experience.
“The new ‘coffee house’ during COVID is in fact the ‘coffee home’,” Penny says. “The depth of Australia’s coffee culture taught Wolff that you cannot just roast and sell coffee, you have to understand its context, being the ‘elixir of connection’.”
However, not every coffee drinker has the skill of
