Man of the land
Matt Golinski has coffee on his mind even before his interview with BeanScene magazine begins. On an early morning call to the Sunshine Coast-local, Matt answers the phone while at his local fruit shop buying milk and coffee.
“Can I call you back? I’m just getting the only one-kilogram bag of beans on the shelf,” Matt says.
The tiny fruit shop in Pomona, two minutes from Matt’s home, stocks only local produce including Ewingsdale Coffee Estate, but generally Matt enjoys Auswana beans for home, produced and roasted at Bracalba on the D’Aguilar Range in South-East Queensland.
“Those guys are at the farmers market every Sunday. I’m pretty fussy when it comes to my coffee but those guys are really consistent,” Matt says. “My dad actually buys coffee from North Queensland Gold Coffee in Mareeba. If he’s doing an order he’ll get five kilograms at a time and we’ll split the freight and halve it.”
Matt lives in an area he describes as “God’s country”,
