15 Gifts For The Coffee Bean Shop Lover In Your Life

Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover, then you will want to try out a coffee bean shop. These shops offer a broad assortment of whole beans from all across the globe. They also have unique kitchenware and trinkets.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops sell the beans in large quantities.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that concentrates on international brews, loose teas and a selection.

When you enter this traditional West Village shop, the smell of fresh roasting beans fills your nostrils. The shelves are packed with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories, and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing a surge of Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses to cater to their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the famous Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) which was that was so well-known at the time that even the Pope drank it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. The company also roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

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

Sey Coffee

The shop is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a cafe and a roaster. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in the fourth-floor loft located across the street at their new location in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's reliance on micro-lots -- or even whole harvests from single farmers--has earned it the respect of discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were harvested at their peak of ripeness and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's dedication extends beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of staff and farmers, and customers. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables in order to keep waste out of the landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also nourish the soil. It also reduces gratuity. This lets baristas concentrate on their work and to earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a dedicated team. Their innovative and coffee near me (gwwa.yodev.net) honest approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not only in their own town, but worldwide.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They search through hundreds of lots each year to find the ones that best meet their ideals. Then they roast them in a light style and dial the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more vibrant flavor and clarity.

The East Village store, which was opened in October of last year it has been praised for its high-quality pour overs and baked goods, overseen and managed by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel as well as other coffee houses.

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco modbar and the cups and plates are made by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, a father and son studio. In a recent Q&A session with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different coffees per year, and typically has seven or eight coffees available at any given point.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee which roasts on-site and brews on demand, with each cup of coffee being roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than one minute. It scour the globe for the finest specialty beans that are sourced directly to give customers the option of choice and quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology, which is quite different from traditional drum-type machines found in the majority of UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around in an enclosed box heated by high-speed air which keeps the green beans suspended and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner throughout the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was a rich cup with velvety mouthfeel. Dark chocolate aromas were present. The coffee began to cool while you sipped, subtle flavours of citrus fruit were evident.

The coffee is transported to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences within less than a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origin selections and a wide range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop using a single espresso machine. It has since morphed into a flourishing coffee roastery, with beans that are sold in top cafes restaurants, cafes, coffee bean shop and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to sourcing the highest quality beans that have all undergone a long journey before reaching its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about their craft and believe that great coffee should be available to everyone," have created a place that is a bit more grounded and has chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and minimal decor.

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six while I was there) They also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room--you can smell and taste the beans, from chocolatey to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten path, but well worth a trip.<img src="https://cdn.freshstore.cloud/offer/images/778/201/by-amazon-espresso-crema-coffee-beans-1kg-2-x-500g-rainforest-alliance-certified-previously-happy-belly-brand-201.jpg