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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are a coffee enthusiast, you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These stores provide a large range of whole beans from all over the world. They also offer unique kitchenware and trinkets.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops sell them in large quantities.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee bean suppliers vendor who is a specialist in international brews, loose teas, and a wide selection.

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air when you enter this West Village shop. Open sacks of dark-brown beans line the shelves, along with sugar jars, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.

Porto Rico was first opened in 1907 Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing a surge of Italian immigrants, who opened businesses to satisfy 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 all over the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts its own beans and offers 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 his family's bakery located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He runs the shop in the same way as his grandfather and father.

Sey Coffee

The shop 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 co-founders of 33 years, began roasting coffee in an apartment 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 emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from single farmers--has earned it the praise of discerning New York City coffee aficionados. 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 peak ripeness and floated to remove defects, then dry fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, melon and lemongrass.

Sey's goal of holistically improving the well-being of growers, staff and customers extends beyond the retail store. It makes use of biodegradable disposables and composts, keeping waste out of the landfill and converting it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also reduces gratuity. This lets baristas focus on their craft and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty Premium 1Kg Master Blend Coffee Beans Online company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a committed team. Their innovative and honest approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a loyal fan base not just in their own town and across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, by scouring through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that fit their ideals. They roast them in a very light manner before dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees more clarity and a better taste.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek, minimalist design. It's been praised by international coffee aficionados for its exacting pour-overs and baked goods overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop employs 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 Q&A 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 varieties on offer at any given point.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant A multi-unit coffee retailer roasts and brews the coffee on site. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your specifications within less than seconds. It searches the world far for the finest quality specialty beans, which are directly sourced, offering customers choice and high-quality.

The roaster they have on site is an automatic fluid bed machine that is distinct from the traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown through a heated box with high-velocity air, which is circulated. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a consistent roasting speed.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was rich and velvety with a rich and velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma, and as you sipped the coffee, you could smell subtle citrus fruit aromas.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the Eversys brewing machines that are super-automatic and can be brewed to your specification in less than a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origin options and a wide range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop using a single espresso machine. It has since developed to become a burgeoning roastery, whose coffee beans are sold in top cafes, restaurants, and home brewers all over the city. Parlor is dedicated to procuring high-quality coffee beans from around the globe Each one has endured a laborious journey before arriving in the hands of its roasters.

In their own words in their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and believe that good coffee should be available to everyone." They achieve that by creating a simple space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled items, and low-frills deco.

They roast and make their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there), but they also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room for breweries. You can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're away from the main roads and it's worth the trip.