That's a rich coffee order! Brooklyn café is set to sell the country's most expensive cup o' Joe - with every one priced at a whopping $18

• Alpha Dominche Extraction Lab in Sunset Park, Brooklyn will sell the pricey cup of coffee
• The shop has eight special coffee machines that are worth nearly $7,000 each
• The $18 cup will be made with Panama Geisha, which is considered by experts to be one of the best types of coffee
• Blue Bottle in San Francisco sells a $16 cup, previously the priciest 

San Francisco and New York City regularly jockey for the title of 'most expensive' in a whole bunch of categories, from real estate to cost of living — and now, New York has stolen the dubious honor of selling the country's most expensive cup of coffee away from its fiercest competitor.

When it opened last week, the Alpha Dominche Extraction Lab in Sunset Park, Brooklyn made waves, not just for its new state-of-the art machines, but it's high-price cup o' Joe.

At $18, the serving of coffee is now the priciest one in the US, beating out the previously title-holder from Blue Bottle in San Francisco, which cost $16.

Not every cup of coffee at the shop costs so much — in fact, their are options for as little as $3, and most orders cost $5 or less.

But the Extraction Lab does serve several types of coffee, including Panama Geisha, which is considered by experts to be one of the best types — meaning a cup of it will run you $14.75 to $18, when it eventually hits the menu.

The coffee shop tells Daily Mail Online that the Geisha variety 'is one of the most rare coffees grown in the world'. 

'Most people don't realize that every coffee we drink today is originally from Ethiopia. Travelers began to take these coffee plants found in Ethiopia and grew them in their home countries,' they went on. 'The Panama Gesha is one of the only coffees that came straight from Ethiopia, and didn't pass through anywhere on it's way to Panama. It has a DNA unlike any other on earth, and this is what makes it so special and rare.'

'It's like a wine shop. You have your $5,000 dollar bottle of wine, but it doesn't mean everything is $5,000,' Alpha Dominche CEO Thomas Perez told Gothamist.

It's not just about the type of coffee, though. The allure of the Extraction Lab is its state-of-the-art machines, which come with a hefty price tag of their own.

The Steampunk machine, 'which looks like a cross between a French press and a draft beer tap', according to Bedford and Bowery, combines drip, French press, and espresso brewing.

A set of two of these fancy machines cost $13,900 — so it seems like the café will have to sell quite a few of those $18 cups of coffee to make their investment worth it, since they have eight in total.

The devices are operated by iPad and go through a six-step process. First, water is heated with steam to a precise brewing temperature. Then, ground coffee is added, and 'gentle pulses of steam' infuse the drink. 

The grounds are then fully immersed, and the brewed coffee drips into a lower chamber. Finally, once all the liquid is in the lower chamber, a barista can open the tap to pour the drink.

The machines are also manned by top baristas, including Jeremy Zhang, a former Barista Champion from China.

Ten to 15 coffee roasters will be available each day and will rotate regularly. There will also be up to 50 tea brands will be on display at any one time. Milk drinks, like lattes and cappuccinos, are not available, though there are pastries by Meyers Bageri.