We visited Wogan Coffee in December 2023. We were warmly welcomed by everyone working there. As you enter the coffee shop in Bristol, you're met by a super cool, ice-cream parlour reminiscent, coffee bean bar where the team bag up your coffee while you wait.
The space is bright, warm, welcoming. There's a huge roaster relaxing as you proceed to the training area where there are multiple machines set up to host and teach others.
Wogan coffee is a third generation company, founded in 1970 and currently run by siblings and grand children of the founder, James and Laura. We met James who gave us the tour of the roasting operation just down the street from the coffee shop. It's an incredibly impressive operation. 2 x 100KG+ roasters, different packing machines, pallets and pallets of green coffee and packages waiting to be shipped. It's vast and did I already mention impressive?
James is super warm and welcoming, reflecting our first impressions of Wogan Coffee. Young and ambitious with a drive for better and more. Better packaging (not all "recyclable" packaging is made equal, we learn), more direct relationships with farmers and lucky for us all - more funky interesting and crazy coffee! We tasted their special edition Columbian. Get this: "strawberry | strawberry laces | strawberry minimilk". Honestly it tasted like strawberry tea. Like nothing I've ever had before!
Being a third generation company means they've been around for a while, having lower overheads means they can afford to offer incredibly reasonable prices to all customers. You save even more if you come along and bring your own packaging to pick up your beans. Being a part of the community is in Wogan's DNA and offering coffee of this quality, with the warm experience and such a great dude at the helm is a true testament to the company's values and the family's legacy.
Great coffee, great people and a great values.
