15 Gifts For The Coffee Bean Shop Lover In Your Life

Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're an avid coffee drinker, you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These stores offer a wide selection of whole beans from all over the world. They also offer unique kitchenware and trinkets.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops offer the beans in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews, as well as a variety of loose teas

The scent of freshly roasted beans fills the air when you enter this West Village shop. The sacks of dark brown beans line the shelves, along with jars of sugar, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increasing number of Italian immigrants who established businesses to cater to their culinary requirements. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so famous at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including those from around the world at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. Porto Rico also roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

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

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This Brooklyn neighborhood, in the Bushwick district, is located on Grattan Street. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders of 33 years, began roasting coffee in an apartment on the fourth floor just across the street, in the year 2011. They called it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the respect of the most discerning New York City coffee aficionados. 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 harvested when they were ripe and then steamed to eliminate any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the health of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It uses composts and biodegradable disposables in order to keep waste out of the landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil.  organic coffee beans www.coffeee.uk  does away with gratuity, a move that puts baristas in a position to provide their livelihoods and motivate them to focus on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee brand, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a dedicated staff. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience earned them a following, not just in their home town but also around the world.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They scour through hundreds of varieties every year in order to find the ones that best fit their ideals. They then roast them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a greater clarity and a more vibrant taste.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek, minimalist design. It has been praised by global coffee enthusiasts for its scrumptious pour-overs and baked goods overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop uses a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups, plates and bowls are crafted by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and-son studio located in Horsens. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different coffees a year, and usually has seven or eight varieties available at any given point.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer which roasts on-site and brews to order, with every cup of coffee roasting and brewed according to your requirements in less than a minute. It scour the globe for the highest-grade specialty beans that are sourced directly to give customers the option of the choice and quality.

The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology which is quite different from the classic drum-type machines used in most UK coffee houses. The beans are blown into a heated container with high-speed and circulating air. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a consistent roasting speed.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was very rich with a velvety mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were present and the coffee started to cool while you sipped the coffee. The subtle scents of citrus fruit were detected.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing systems and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in just a few minutes. Customers can select from nine single origins as well as several blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, equipped with a single group espresso machine. It has since developed to become a burgeoning roastery, whose beans are sold in top cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the highest-quality beans, that have gone through 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 accessible to everyone," have created a environment that is simple, with chalkboards, compost bins, recycled handmade products, and minimal decor.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six while I was there) They also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room where you can taste and smell the beans that are ground. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). It's a little off the beaten path, but worth the journey.