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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to visit a coffee bean shop. These shops offer a broad selection of whole beans from all across the globe. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other products.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews and a variety of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air as you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are filled with jars, sacks and 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 established businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so well-known in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including beans from all over the world in three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. Porto Rico also roasts their own beans and offers Wholesale Coffee Beans Uk distribution to 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 was the owner of Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the shop in the same 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 coffee shop and roaster. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in the fourth-floor loft just around the corner from their new shop in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's preference for micro-lots or even whole harvests from single farmers been praised by highly 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 carefully picked at their peak ripeness, removed by flotation to eliminate defects and then dried fermented for 36 hours prior to being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's commitment to holistically improving the wellbeing of growers, staff and customers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts, keeping waste out of landfills and turning it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also prevents gratuities. This allows baristas to concentrate on their work and to earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee business that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a team of dedicated employees. 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 has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, by scouring through hundreds of different varieties every year to find ones that fit their ideals. Then, they roast them in a light style before dialing them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more vibrant taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which opened in the month of October last year was praised for its high-quality pour overs and baked goods, which are overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and various coffee establishments.

The shop utilizes a La Marzocco Modbar, and the cups, plates and bowls are crafted by Wurtz ceramics, a father and son studio in Horsens. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different types of coffees each year, and usually has seven or eight coffees available at any given time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant, a multi-unit coffee retailer roasts and brews coffee on-site. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your specifications in less than seconds. It searches the world across the globe for the highest-quality, directly sourced specialty beans providing customers with choice and high-quality.

Their roaster on site is a fluid bed machine which is different from traditional drum machines that are used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown through a heated container with high-speed air, which is circulated. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a constant roasting speed.

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

The coffee is whisked to the Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in just a few minutes. Customers can select from nine single origins and a variety blends.

Parlor Coffee

It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop that had an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans are found at great cafes, restaurants and home brewers in the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the finest quality beans, which have been through a lengthy journey before reaching its roasters.

According to their own words, they "have a relentless passion for craft and a belief that good luxury coffee beans should be available to everyone." They do just this with their earthy space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled items, and a minimalist deco.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six at the time I was there) They also hold cuppings on Sundays, and are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area where you can taste and smell the beans as they are roasted. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). They're a bit off the beaten path, but well worth a trip.