15 Gifts For The Coffee Bean Shop Lover In Your Life

Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are an avid coffee drinker, then you should visit a coffee shop. These shops offer a variety of whole beans from all over the world. They also have unique kitchenware and trinkets.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell coffee beans in bulk at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specialises in international brews loose teas, and a wide selection.

When you step into this traditional West Village shop, the scent of freshly coffee beans fills your nostrils. Open bags of dark-brown beans line the shelves alongside sugar jars, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing an influx of Italian immigrants, who established businesses to cater to their dietary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so renowned at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including those from around the globe at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. The company also roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the business was raised above the bakery of his family on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He runs the shop in the same way as his grandfather and father.

Sey Coffee

Located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a roaster and coffee shop. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders, who are 33 years old, started roasting coffee in the loft on the fourth floor, just around the corner in 2011. They called it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's focus on buying micro-lots or whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the praise of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In the past, they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were picked at their peak ripeness, floated to eliminate any defects and dried fermented for a period of 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend that is a little the melon and berry.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall health of staff and growers, as well as customers. It uses biodegradable disposables and composts, keeping waste out of landfills and turning it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This allows baristas to concentrate on their craft and help sustain their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a committed staff. Their open and creative approach to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience has earned them a following not only in their hometown but all over the world.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They search through hundreds of varieties each year to find those that best meet their standards. They then roast them very lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This results in a brighter taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which was opened in October of last year was praised for its excellent pour overs, as well as the baked goods, overseen and managed by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and various coffee houses.

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco modbar and the cups and plates are designed by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, a father and son studio. In a recent interview, Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees every day and usually has seven or eight varieties available at any one time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer which roasts on-site and brews to order with each cup of coffee roasting and brewed according to your requirements in less than minutes. It searches countries far and wide for the highest-grade, directly sourced specialty beans providing customers with choice and high-quality.

Their onsite roaster is a fluid bed machine which is different from classic drum machines used in UK coffee beans unroasted shops. The beans are blown through a heated container with high-speed, circulating air. This keeps the coffee bean shop (mouse click the next article) beans suspended and allows for a constant roasting speed.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was delicious with a velvety mouthfeel. Dark chocolate aromas were present, and the coffee began to cool down as you sipped and subtle aromas of citrus fruit were detected.

The coffee that has been roasted will be taken to the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your preferences within less than a minute. Customers can select from a selection of nine single origin choices and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop, complete with an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans can be found in top restaurants, cafes and home brewers across the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing top rated coffee beans-quality beans from all over the world, each of which has had to endure a lengthy journey before it reaches the roasters.

In their own words according to their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and a conviction that good coffee should be available to everyone." They do just that with their down-to-earth space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled products, and low-frills deco.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there), but they also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Think of it as a tasting room for breweries. You can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). It's a bit off the beaten path, but it's worth the drive.