15 Gifts For The Coffee Bean Shop Lover In Your Life

Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to try out a coffee bean shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from all over the world. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Some shops offer them in large quantities.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that is a specialist in international brews, loose teas and a selection.

When you walk into this old-fashioned West Village shop, the scent of freshly coffee beans fills your nostrils. The shelves are lined with jars and sacks of dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories and sugar.

Originally opened in  coffee bean suppliers , Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an influx of Italian immigrants who established businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage that was so well-known at the time that even the Pope was a fan.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds 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 offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the company was raised over his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in the same way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's preference for buying micro-lots, and even whole harvests from single farmers has earned it the acclaim of New York City coffee enthusiasts. The last time Sey was in the market, he purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa region. The beans were handpicked at peak ripeness and floated to remove defects, then dry fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, melon and lemongrass.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall health of staff and growers, and customers. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts to keep waste out of landfills and turning it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also removes gratuities. This allows baristas to concentrate on their craft and help sustain their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They began with a small shop and a dedicated team. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a unique coffee experience earned them a following, not just in their home town however, but across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, going through hundreds of different lots a year to find the ones that meet their standards. They roast them lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more intense flavor and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek minimalist design. It has been praised by global coffee aficionados for its exacting pour overs and baked goods that 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 custom-designed at Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves about 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

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee, roasts and brews coffee on site. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your specifications within less than seconds. It scour the globe for the finest specialty beans that are directly sourced providing customers with choice and quality.

The roaster they have on site is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from classic drum machines used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in the heated box by high-speed air that keeps the beans suspended and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner throughout the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was incredibly rich and velvety with a smooth taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma, and as you sip the coffee there were subtle citrus fruit flavors.

The roasted coffee will then be poured into the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your preferences within less than a minute. Customers can pick from a selection of nine single origin choices and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop equipped with an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans can be found in top cafes, restaurants and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the highest-quality beans, which have been through a lengthy journey before arriving at its roasters.

In their own words in their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee should be available to everyone." They do just that with their down-to-earth street space, which includes compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled items, and low-frills deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, but they also hold cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room for breweries. You can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten path but are worthwhile to visit.