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 check out the shops selling coffee beans. These stores provide a large range of whole beans from all across the globe. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee retailer specializing international brews and a selection of loose teas

When you step into this old-school West Village shop, the smell of fresh roasting beans fills the air. The shelves are lined with jars, sacks and dark brown beans, with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories and sugar.

The first restaurant opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who opened establishments to cater to their dietary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the renowned Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage that was so well-known at the time that even the Pope consumed 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.  coffee beans bulk buy coffeee.uk  roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

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

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's commitment to buying micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from single farmers has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In 2011, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The beans were harvested at the peak of ripeness, and steamed to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee that has hints of the melon and berry.

Sey's focus on holistically improving the well-being of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the shop. It uses composts and biodegradable disposables in order to ensure that waste is kept out of the garbage dumps. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also prevents gratuities. This lets baristas concentrate on their work and support their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty-coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a dedicated staff. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience has earned them a following that was not only in their hometown, but globally.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They go through hundreds of varieties each year to find the ones that best fit their ideals. They roast them lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more intense flavor and clarity.

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

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

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts on-site and brews according to your preferences, with every cup of coffee roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than an hour. It searches the world for the highest-grade specialty beans that are sourced directly providing customers with the option of choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster is a fluid bed machine, which is different from the traditional drum machines that are used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown inside an enclosed box that is heated and has high-speed air, which is circulated. This keeps the beans in suspension and ensures a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were evident and the coffee began to cool as you sip delicate citrus flavours fruit were detected.

The roasted coffee will then be whisked into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines to be brewed according your preferences in less than a minute. Customers can pick from a variety of single origins and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, equipped with a single group espresso machine. It has since grown into a burgeoning coffee roastery, whose coffee beans can be found in a variety of great cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing the highest-quality beans around the globe Each one has been through a long and difficult journey before reaching the hands of its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about their craft and believe that good coffee should be accessible to everyone," have created a space that is down-to earth and filled with chalkboards. There are compost bins, recycled handmade products, and a minimalist interior.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six while I was there) Also, they do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room where you can taste and smell the beans that are ground. They vary from earthy to chocolaty (one was similar to tomato!). It's a bit away from the main roads, but well worth the trip.