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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a fan of coffee You'll want to check out the shops selling coffee beans. These stores provide a large range of whole beans from all across the globe. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other things.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee retailer specializing international brews, as well as a variety of loose teas

The scent of freshly roasting beans fills the air when you walk into this West Village shop. The shelves are packed with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, along with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increasing number of Italian immigrants who had opened establishments to cater to their dietary needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so famous at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. The company also roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. He continues to run the shop in a similar way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

It is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a cafe and a roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders began roasting coffee in an apartment on the fourth floor just across the street in the year 2011. They named it 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, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were picked at their peak ripeness and steamed to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee with hints of berry melon and lemongrass.

Sey's commitment to holistically improving the wellbeing of staff, growers and customers extends beyond the store. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables in order to keep waste from the landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This lets baristas concentrate on their work and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee business that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a committed team. Their open and creative approach to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience earned their acclaim not just in their home town but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, scouring through hundreds of different lots every year to find ones that fit their ideals. Then, they roast them in a light manner, dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees an enhanced taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which opened in the month of October last year, has been praised 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 beans wholesale suppliers houses.

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco modbar, and the cups and plates are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, a father and son studio. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different coffees a year, and usually has seven or eight coffees available at any given point.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts on-site and brews to order, with every cup of coffee being roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than one minute. It scour the globe for the finest specialty beans that are sourced directly offering customers a choices and high-quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology which is a bit different to the classic drum-type machines used in most UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around a heated box by high-velocity air, which keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows them to be roasted at a consistent rate as they travel through the machine.

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The coffee that has been roasted is transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in less than a minute. Customers can select from a variety of single origins and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single group espresso machine. It has since morphed into a bustling coffee roastery, with beans that are available in top cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers across the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing the highest-quality beans across the globe, each of which has been through a long and difficult journey before reaching the hands of its roasters.

According to their own words in their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and believe that good coffee should be available to everyone." They achieve that with their down-to-earth streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, a chalkboard welcome hand-made up-cycled goods, and a minimalist 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 accessible to the public. Think of it as an artisanal tasting room in which you can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). It's a little off the beaten track, but worth the journey.