15 Gifts For The Coffee Bean Shop Lover In Your Life

Five Brooklyn Coffee bean to cup coffee beans Shops

If you are a coffee enthusiast, you must visit a coffee shop. These shops provide a variety of whole beans from around the globe. They also offer unique kitchenware and trinkets.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

When you step into this quaint West Village shop, the aroma of freshly coffee beans fills your nostrils. Open sacks of dark-brown beans are displayed on the shelves alongside sugar jars coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an large influx of Italian immigrants who opened businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so popular in the present, that even the Pope would drink it.

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

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the company was raised above his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father operated 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 located on Grattan Street. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in a fourth-floor loft 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 focus on purchasing micro-lots, or even whole harvests from single farmers been praised by highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa region. The beans were handpicked at their peak ripeness, 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 that has hints of melons and berries.

Sey's dedication extends beyond its shop to improve the overall well-being of staff and growers, as well as customers. It utilizes composts and biodegradable disposables to keep waste from landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also does away with gratuity, a move that puts baristas in a position to support their livelihoods and motivate them to concentrate on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was established in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. They began with a small shop and a dedicated team. Their honest and creative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a following that was not only in their hometown but all over the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, scouring through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that match their ideals. Then they roast them in a light style, dialing them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This results in clearer and more vibrant taste.

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

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups, plates, and bowls are custom-designed 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 around 250 different varieties of coffee each year, and usually has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given point.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant coffee Beans Delivery

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee roasts and brews coffee on site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your requirements in less than seconds. It searches the world far to find the finest, directly sourced specialty beans, offering customers choice and quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology which is quite different from the drum-type machines that are commonly used in most UK coffee houses. The beans are blown into a heated box with high-velocity air, which is circulated. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was delicious with a an enveloping mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were evident and the coffee began to cool while you sipped, subtle flavours of citrus fruit were evident.

The roasted coffee is then whisked to the Eversys brewing machines that are super-automatic and can be you can have your coffee brewed to your specifications in just a few minutes. Customers can select from a variety of single origins and a wide range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, using a single espresso machine. It has since morphed into a burgeoning coffee roastery, with beans that can be found in great cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the highest-quality beans, which have gone through a long journey before reaching its roasters.

According to their own words the owners "have an unstoppable passion for craft and believe that good coffee should be available to everyone." They do just this by putting their home-like streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, a chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled products, and low-frills deco.

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six on the menu when I was there), but they also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Think of it as a brewery tasting room--you can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're off the beaten track and worthwhile to visit.