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. These shops sell a range of whole beans from around the world. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.
Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell the beans in bulk at their retail locations.
Porto Rico Importing Co.
Veteran coffee seller who specialises in international brews loose teas and a variety.
When you walk into this traditional West Village shop, the smell of fresh coffee beans fills your nostrils. The sacks of dark brown beans line the shelves, along with sugar jars, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.
Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who opened businesses to cater to their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican organic coffee beans she imported and sold — a drink that was so renowned that at the time, even the Pope would drink it.
Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico also roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.
Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the business was raised above his family’s bakery on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. The business is still run by 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. This Brooklyn neighborhood, in the Bushwick district is situated on Grattan Street. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders, who are 33 years old, 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 focus on buying micro-lots, or even whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the praise of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil’s Espirito-Santo region. The beans were hand-picked at the peak of ripeness, then removed by flotation to eliminate defects and then dried fermented for a period of 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee with hints of berry lemongrass, and melon.
Sey’s commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of employees and growers as well as its customers. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, preventing waste from garbage and converting it into agents that lower harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This allows baristas to focus on their craft and support their livelihoods.
La Cabra
La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small shop and a committed team. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience has earned them a following not only in their own town but also around the world.
La Carba follows a strict procedure to find their perfect beans. They search through hundreds of varieties every year to select the beans that best match their ideals. They roast them light roast coffee beans, adjusting the 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, and has been praised by 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 as well as the cups, plates and bowls are made by Wurtz ceramics, a father and son studio located in Horsens. In a recent Q&A with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different coffees a year, and typically has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given point.
The Plant Coffee 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 scour countries far and across the globe for the highest-quality, directly sourced specialty beans that offer customers a variety and quality.
The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology which is a bit different to the drum-type machines that are commonly used in the majority of UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around in an enclosed box heated by high-speed air, which keeps the green beans suspended and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate throughout the machine.
I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was smooth and rich with a velvety flavor. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma and as you sipped the coffee you could detect subtle citrus fruit flavors.
The coffee that has been roasted will be taken to the store’s Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines to be brewed according your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can select from a variety of single origins and a wide range of blends.
Parlor Coffee
Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single group espresso machine. It has since grown into a bustling coffee roastery, whose coffee beans can be found in a variety of great cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers in every city. Parlor is committed to procuring high quality coffee beans-quality coffee beans (Imoodle.Win) from around the globe, each of which has had to endure a lengthy journey before arriving in the roasters.
According to their own words, they «have a relentless passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be available to anyone.» They accomplish that by creating a simple area on a residential street. Think compost bins, chalkboards hand-made up-cycled goods, and a minimally-decorated space.
They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins. However, they also host cuppings on Sundays, which are accessible to the public. Imagine it as the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They’re off the beaten track and well worth a trip.