15 Gifts For The Coffee Bean Shop Lover In Your Life

Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're an avid coffee drinker, then you must visit a coffee shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from around the globe. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor specializing in international brews and a variety of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air when you walk into this West Village shop. Open sacks of dark-brown beans line the shelves alongside jars of sugar, coffee beans london-making equipment and 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 opened businesses to satisfy their dietary needs. Albanese named her shop after the popular Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) the beverage was so famous at the time that even the Pope drank it.

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

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

Sey Coffee

It is located on 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 a fourth-floor loft just around the corner from their new location in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's focus on buying micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from farmers who are one has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. Last year, 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 the peak of ripeness, then removed by flotation to eliminate defects and then dried fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, lemongrass and melon.

Sey's commitment to holistically improving the wellbeing of employees, customers and growers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It makes use of composts and biodegradable products to keep waste out of the garbage dumps. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts baristas in a position to help sustain their livelihoods and inspire them to focus on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was established in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a dedicated staff. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience has earned their acclaim not just in their home town, but globally.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They go through hundreds of varieties each year in order to select the beans that best fit their ideals. They roast them in a very light style then dial them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees more clarity and a better taste.

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

The shop employs a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates and bowls are designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and son studio located in Horsens. 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 on offer at any one time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the coffee bean to cup coffee beans shop (timeoftheworld.date) only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts its own coffee and brews to order, with each cup of coffee roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than minutes. It searches the world wide for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced that provide customers with a choice and high-quality.

The on-site roaster employs fluid bed technology, which is a bit different to the drum-type machines that are commonly used in most UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around in the heated box by high-speed air which keeps the beans suspended and allows them to be roasted at a consistent rate as they travel through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with velvety mouthfeel. Dark chocolate from the fragrance was present. The coffee began to cool as you sipped delicate citrus flavours fruit were evident.

The coffee that has been roasted is transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and it is brewed to your requirements in just a few minutes. Customers can pick 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 with an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans are sold at top cafes, restaurants and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the highest-quality beans, which have all undergone a long journey before reaching its roasters.

In their own words in their own words, they "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be accessible to everyone." They accomplish this by putting their home-like space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled products, and a minimalist deco.

They roast and make their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there), but they also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting area--you can smell and taste the beans as they are roasted. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). They're a bit off the beaten path and is worth a visit.