Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are a coffee lover, you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These shops offer a variety of whole beans from around the world. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Others offer coffee beans in bulk at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews as well as a range of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air as you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are filled with jars and sacks of dark brown beans, along with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories, and sugar.

The first restaurant opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an large influx of Italian immigrants who had opened businesses to cater to their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so renowned in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, which includes beans from all over 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 business was raised on the top floor of the bakery of his family on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He runs the business in the same manner like his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a coffee shop and roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders of 33 years, began roasting coffee in a loft on the fourth floor, just across the street in 2011. They called it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's focus on purchasing micro-lots, or even whole harvests from single farmers--has earned it the praise of knowledgeable New York City coffee aficionados. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The beans were harvested at their peak of ripeness and then steamed to eliminate any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's commitment to holistically improving the health of staff, growers and customers extends beyond the store. It uses biodegradable disposables and composts, preventing waste from landfills and turning it into agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This allows baristas to concentrate on their work and to earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a unique coffee experience earned their acclaim not just in their own town, but globally.

La Carba has a rigorous process to find their perfect beans, by scouring through hundreds of different varieties a year to find the ones that meet their standards. They roast them lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees greater clarity and a more vibrant taste.

The East Village store, which opened in October last year and has been praised by critics for its high-quality pour overs as well as its baked goods, overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel as well as other coffee establishments.

The shop utilizes the La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates and bowls are designed 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 a yea, and has usually seven or eight different varieties available at any given time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant A multi-unit retailer of coffee roasts and brews its coffee on the spot. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your specifications in less than seconds. It searches the world for the highest-grade specialty beans that are sourced directly providing customers with choice and quality.

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

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was velvety and rich with a velvety taste. Premium 1kg Dark Roast Specialty Coffee Beans chocolate was evident in the aroma. And as you sipped the coffee, you could detect subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and brewed to your specification within less than a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origins as well as a variety blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop with one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans are sold at top restaurants, cafes and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to finding the highest-quality beans, which have all been through a long journey before they reach its roasters.

In their own words in their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be accessible to everyone." They accomplish that by creating a simple space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboards hand-made up-cycled goods, and a simple deco.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six on the menu when I was there) However, they also hold cuppings on Sundays, and are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room, where you can smell and taste the beans in the 250g Ground ROBUSTA Coffee Beans - High Caffeine; visit this link,. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). They're a bit away from the tourist trail and worthwhile to visit.