Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're an avid green coffee beans drinker, then you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These shops offer a variety of whole beans from all over the world. They also sell unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell large quantities of coffee beans at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor who specialises in international brews loose teas and a variety.

When you walk into this old-school West Village shop, the smell of fresh roasting beans fills your nostrils. Open sacks of dark-brown beans line the shelves, along with sugar jars coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx of Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses to meet their food needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so renowned at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Coffee Bean Club Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the business was raised above his family's 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 grandfather and father.

Sey Coffee

Located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both an espresso bar and a coffee roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders, who are 33 years old, started roasting coffee in a loft on the fourth floor, just around the corner in 2011. They dubbed it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Coffee Bean Club Peddler.

Sey's focus on buying micro-lots or whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. Last year they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were harvested at the peak of ripeness, and floated to remove any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup with hints of berry and melon.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the well-being of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the retail store. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts to keep waste out of landfills and converting it to substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and feed the soil. It also removes gratuities. This allows baristas to focus on their craft and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee beans types brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a committed team. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing a unique coffee experience has earned them a following not only in their hometown however, but across the globe.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They search through hundreds of varieties each year in order to select the beans that best fit their ideals. Then, they roast them in a very light style, dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more intense flavor and clarity.

The East Village store, which opened in October last year and has been praised by critics for its excellent pour overs and baked goods, overseen and managed by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel, and other coffee beans for sale establishments.

The shop utilizes a La Marzocco modbar, and the plates and cups are designed by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, a father and son studio. In a recent interview, Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees every day, and has usually seven or eight different varieties available at any one time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts on site and brews according to your preferences, with every cup of coffee being roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than one minute. It searches the world for the highest-grade specialty beans that are sourced directly, giving customers the choice and quality.

The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology which is a bit different to the drum-type machines that are commonly used in many UK coffee houses. The beans are blown in the heated box using high-speed air that is circulated. This keeps the beans in suspension and ensures a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee Bean club, https://onemekan.com/index.php?Action=profile;u=286243, and it was rich and velvety with a smooth taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma. As you sipped the coffee, you could smell subtle citrus fruit flavors.

The roasted organic coffee beans is then whisked to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in just a few minutes. Customers can choose from nine single origins as well as several blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single group espresso machine. It has since developed to become a burgeoning roastery, with beans that can be found in great cafes, restaurants, and home brewers all over the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to sourcing the highest-quality beans, that have all been through a long journey before arriving at its roasters.

In their own words in their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be available to everyone." They accomplish this by putting their home-like space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled products, and a minimally-decorated space.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six on the menu when I was there), but they also do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Think of it like the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're away from the main roads and is worth a visit.