Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're an avid coffee drinker, you should go to a coffee shop. These shops offer a variety of whole beans from around the world. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other things.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops sell coffee beans in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews and a selection of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. Open bags of dark-brown beans line the shelves, along with sugar jars as well as coffee-making equipment and 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 established businesses in order to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after The Coffee Bean Shop [Http://Misojin.Co/Bbs/Board.Php?Bo_Table=Free&Wr_Id=367179] well-known Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) which was that was so popular at the time that even the Pope took a sip.

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 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, grew up above the bakery of his family on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in the same way to his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

The shop is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a roaster and coffee shop. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33, started roasting in a fourth-floor loft just around the corner from their new store in 2011 under the name Lofted speciality coffee beans (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's decision to buy micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from farmers who are one has earned it the acclaim of New York City coffee enthusiasts. The last time Sey was in the market, he purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa region. The beans were picked at the peak of ripeness, then removed by flotation to eliminate defects, then dry fermented for 36 hours prior to being dried on the farm. The result is a blend with hints of melons and berries.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the wellbeing of staff, growers and customers extends beyond the store. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, preventing waste from garbage and converting it into agents that lower harmful greenhouse gas emissions and feed the soil. It also reduces gratuity. This lets baristas concentrate on their craft and support their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee business that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience has earned their acclaim not just in their own town but all over the world.

La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, scouring through hundreds of different varieties every year to find ones that match their ideals. Then they roast them in a very light manner and dial the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees greater clarity and a more vibrant taste.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek minimalist style, and has 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 uses the La Marzocco Modbar as well as 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 varieties of coffee each year, and usually has seven or eight coffees available at any given point.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee which roasts on-site and brews to order, with each cup of coffee roasting and brewed according to your requirements in less than an hour. It scour the globe for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced, giving customers the option of choice and quality.

The on-site roaster employs fluid bed technology which is a bit different to traditional drum-type machines found in many UK coffee houses. The beans are blown inside an enclosed box that is heated and has high-speed air that is circulated. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a consistent roasting speed.

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

The roasted coffee will then be poured into the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your preferences in under a minute. Customers can select from nine single origins as well as various blends.

Parlor Coffee

Founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop with one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become an energizing roastery whose coffees are sold at top cafes, restaurants and home brewers all over the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing top-quality beans from all over the world Each one has endured a laborious journey before reaching the roasters.

According to their own words, they "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee should be accessible to anyone." They do just that by creating a simple area on a residential street. Think compost bins, chalkboards, handmade up-cycled products and a minimally-decorated space.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins, however they also hold cuppings on Sundays that are open to the general public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room where you can taste and smell the beans as they are roasted. They are a mix of earthy and chocolate (one was almost like tomato!). It's a bit away from the main roads, but well worth the trip.