Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover, then you will want to try out a coffee bean shop. These shops provide a variety of whole beans from all over the world. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other products.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran fresh coffee beans shop that specializes in international brews, loose teas, and a variety.

The scent of freshly roasting beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. Unopened bags of dark brown beans line the shelves, along with jars of sugar coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories.

In 1907, the first time it was opened, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who opened businesses to satisfy their food requirements. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so popular in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, which includes those from around the world at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. The company also 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, grew up above the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He continues to run the shop 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 an espresso bar and a coffee roaster. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 began roasting in a fourth-floor loft 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 buying micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from farmers who are one has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. 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 hand-picked at their peak ripeness, floated to remove defects and then dried fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry, melon and lemongrass.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of staff and growers, as well as customers. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables to keep waste from landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases as well as nourish the soil. It also reduces gratuity. This allows baristas to concentrate on their craft and to earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty-coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a committed team. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience earned them a following that was not only in their own town but also around the world.

La Carba follows a strict method to select their best beans. They go through hundreds of varieties each year in order to find the ones that best match their ideals. They then roast them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees an enhanced taste and clarity.

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

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

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant, a multi-unit retailer of coffee roasts and brews coffee on-site. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than a second. It searches the globe for the highest quality specialty beans that are sourced directly providing customers with the option of choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster is a fluid bed machine which is different from the classic drum machines used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in the heated box by high-speed air that keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was delicious with a an enveloping mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were evident and click the following webpage the coffee began to cool as you sipped delicate citrus flavours fruit were evident.

The coffee is whisked to the Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and you can have your coffee brewed to your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can select from nine single origins as well as a variety blends.

Parlor Coffee

In 2012, the company was established in the back of a barbershop, complete with an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a rapidly growing roastery whose beans are available at top cafes, restaurants and home brewers in the city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the finest quality beans, which have been through a lengthy journey before arriving at its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about craft and believe that great coffee should accessible to everyone," have created a place that is a bit more grounded and has chalkboards, compost bins and up-cycled items, and simple decor.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there) Also, they offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Think of it like the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the ground beans, from chocolaty to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). It's a bit off the beaten path but worth the journey.