Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover, you should visit a coffee shop. They offer a wide assortment of whole beans from all across the globe. They also sell exclusive trinkets, kitchenware, and other items.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans uk beans. Others sell them in bulk at their retail stores.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor who concentrates on international brews, loose teas, and a wide selection.

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

In 1907, the first time it was opened, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing a surge of Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses to meet their food needs. Albanese named her shop after the renowned Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) which was so famous at the time that even the Pope consumed it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around 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 provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the business was raised over his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in a similar way to his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's reliance on 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 picked when they were ripe and then floated to eliminate any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup with hints of berry, lemongrass and melon.

Sey's commitment extends beyond its shop to improve the overall well-being of employees and growers as well as its customers. It uses biodegradable disposables and composts, keeping waste out of garbage and converting it into agents that lower harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, Starbucks Coffee Beans a move that puts baristas in a position to support their livelihoods as well as encourage them to focus on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a dedicated staff. Their honest and innovative method of providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not just in their hometown but all over the world.

La Carba follows a strict method to select their best beans. They go through hundreds of lots each year in order to find those that best fit their ideals. They roast them lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more intense flavor and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek and minimalist design, and has been praised by 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, and the plates and cups are designed specifically for starbucks coffee Beans Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, the son and father studio. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different coffees per year, and typically has seven or eight varieties available at any given point.

The Plant Coffee 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 specifications in less than an hour. It scour the globe for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced providing customers with choices and high quality coffee beans-quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology, which is a bit different to the drum-type machines that are commonly used in the majority of UK coffee houses. The beans are blown into a heated box with high-velocity and circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a constant 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 sip the coffee, there were subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The coffee that has been roasted is transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in just a few minutes. Customers can choose from nine single origins and a variety blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, using a single espresso machine. It has since developed to become a burgeoning roastery, whose coffee beans are available in top cafes and restaurants as well as home brewers all over the city. Parlor coffee beans shop is committed to finding the highest quality beans that have been through a lengthy journey before reaching its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about craft and believe that good coffee beans lavazza should be accessible to all," have created a environment that is simple, with chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled handmade products, and low-frills decor.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, however they also have cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the general public. Imagine it as a tasting area--you can smell and taste the ground beans. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). It's a bit away from the main roads, but worth the journey.