Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are a coffee lover, you must visit a coffee shop. These shops offer a broad selection of whole beans from all over the world. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller who specialises in international brews loose teas and a selection.

When you enter this old-school West Village shop, forum.med-click.ru the smell of fresh coffee beans fills your nostrils. Open sacks of dark-brown beans line the shelves alongside sugar jars, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing an influx of Italian immigrants, who established businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the renowned Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage so famous at the time that even the Pope was a fan.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including those from around the world at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico also roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the company, grew up above his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. The business is still run by the business 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 roaster and coffee shop. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders of 33 years, began roasting speciality coffee beans in an apartment 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 Peddler.

Sey's preference for micro-lots or even whole harvests from a single farmer has been praised by knowledgeable New York City coffee aficionados. In 2011, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at the peak of ripeness, then floated to get rid of any imperfections, then dry fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's commitment to holistically improving the quality of life for staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts, keeping waste out of garbage and converting it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts baristas into a position to sustain their livelihoods and inspire them to concentrate on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small shop and a team of dedicated employees. Their innovative and honest approach to providing an outstanding coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not just in their home town but all over the world.

La Carba follows a strict method to select their best beans. They scour hundreds of lots each year to select the beans that best fit their ideals. They then roast them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This results in a brighter taste and clarity.

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

The shop employs a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates and bowls are designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father/son studio in Horsens. In a recent Q&A session with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different coffees a year, and typically has seven or eight coffees available at any given moment.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer which roasts on-site and brews according to your preferences, with every cup of coffee roasting and brewed according to your preferences in less than a minute. It scour countries far and wide for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced that offer customers a variety and quality.

The on-site roaster employs fluid bed technology, which is quite different from the classic drum-type machines used in the majority of UK coffee shops. The beans are blown in an enclosed box that is heated and has high-speed air that is circulated. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a constant roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was rich and velvety with a smooth taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma, and as you sipped the coffee, there were subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The coffee that has been roasted will be taken to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines to be brewed according your preferences in under a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origins and various blends.

Parlor Coffee

In 2012, the company was established in the back of a barbershop that had an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become an energizing roastery whose coffees are available at top restaurants, cafes and wiki.martin-moser.ch home brewers in the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the highest quality beans that have been through a lengthy journey before arriving at its roasters.

According to their own words in their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and believe that good coffee should be accessible to anyone." They achieve that by creating a simple street space, which includes compost bins, a chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled products, and a simple deco.

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six when I was there), but they also do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room where you can taste and smell the ground beans. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). It's a bit off the beaten track, but worth the journey.