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 visit a coffee shop. These shops offer a variety of whole beans from around the world. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other products.
Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell the beans in bulk at their retail stores.
Porto Rico Importing Co.
Veteran coffee retailer specializing international brews as well as a range of loose teas
As you enter this quaint West Village shop, the smell of fresh roasted beans fills your nose. The shelves are filled with jars and bags of dark brown beans, along with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories and sugar.
Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who set up businesses to satisfy their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so famous in the present, that even the Pope would drink it.
Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. The company also roasts their own beans and offers 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. He continues to run the business in the same manner as his father and grandfather.
Sey Coffee
Sey Coffee, a coffee roaster and shop, is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. Coffeee , located in Brooklyn's Bushwick district, is located on Grattan Street. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders began roasting coffee in a loft on the fourth floor just around the corner in 2011. The name was Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.
Sey's decision to buy micro-lots, or even whole harvests from single farmers has earned it the acclaim of New York City coffee enthusiasts. 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 picked at their peak of ripeness and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend that is a little the melon and berry.
Sey's dedication to holistically improving the well-being of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the shop. It uses composts and biodegradable plastics to ensure that waste is kept out of the garbage dumps. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also removes gratuities. This lets baristas concentrate on their craft and earn a living.
La Cabra
La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a dedicated staff. Their honest and creative approach to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience earned them a following that was not only in their hometown, but globally.
La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, going through hundreds of different varieties every year to locate the ones that match their ideals. Then they roast them in a light manner and dial them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more vibrant taste and clarity.
The East Village store opened last October with a sleek and minimalist design. It has been praised worldwide by coffee lovers for its precise 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 as well as the cups, plates and bowls are made by Wurtz ceramics, a father and son studio in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees every day, and has usually seven or eight varieties on offer at any one time.
The Roasting Plant Coffee
The Roasting Plant 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 one second. It searches far and far to find the finest specialty beans, which are directly sourced, offering customers choice and high-quality.
Their on-site roaster is a fluid bed device, which is different from classic drum machines used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in a heated box by high-velocity air that keeps the green beans suspended and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate as they move through the machine.
I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was a rich cup with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were present, and the coffee began to cool as you sipped, subtle flavours of citrus fruit were detected.
The roasted coffee will then be poured into the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines and brewed according your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can select from nine single origins and different blends.
Parlor Coffee
Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop using a single espresso machine. It has since morphed into a bustling coffee roastery, whose beans are available in top cafes and restaurants as well as home brewers in every city. Parlor Coffee is committed to sourcing the highest quality beans that have gone through a long journey before they reach its roasters.
According to their own words the owners "have an unstoppable passion for craft and believe that good coffee should be accessible to anyone." They do just that by creating a simple street space, which includes compost bins, a chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled products, and a minimally-decorated space.
They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, but they also host cuppings on Sundays that are open to the general public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room where you can taste and smell the beans in the ground. They vary from earthy to chocolaty (one was similar to tomato!). It's a little away from the main roads, but worth the trip.