Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur, then you will want to try out a coffee shop. They offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all over the world. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other products.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee retailer specializing international brews as well as a range of loose teas

When you step into this old-school West Village shop, the scent of freshly coffee beans fills your nostrils. Unopened bags of dark brown beans are stacked on the shelves along with sugar jars coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who set up businesses to serve their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the famous Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) which was so famous at the time that even the Pope took a sip.

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, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. The business is still run by the shop in the same manner as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster, is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This neighborhood in Brooklyn's Bushwick district, is located on Grattan Street. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders, who are 33 years old, started roasting coffee in the loft on the fourth floor, just around the corner, in the year 2011. They called it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's decision to buy micro-lots or whole harvests, from single farmers 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 the peak of ripeness, then floated to get rid of any imperfections, then dry fermented for a period of 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup that is a little the melon and berry.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall health of growers and staff, as well as customers. It uses biodegradable disposables and composts, keeping waste out types of coffee beans landfills and converting it to agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also prevents gratuities. This allows baristas to focus on their craft and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small shop and a committed team. Their honest and creative approach to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience has earned them a following that was not only in their home town, but globally.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They scour hundreds of varieties each year to find those that best meet their standards. Then they roast them in a very light style and dial the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees more clarity and a better taste.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek minimalist design, 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 utilizes the La Marzocco Modbar as well as the cups, plates and bowls are designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father/son studio in Horsens. In a recent Q&A with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different coffees per year, and typically has seven or eight coffees available at any given point.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts on-site and brews to order with each cup of coffee being roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than minutes. It searches countries far and far to find the finest, directly sourced specialty beans, offering customers choice and high-quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology that is a bit different to traditional drum-type machines found in many UK coffee houses. The beans are blown into a heated container with high-speed, circulating air. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with a velvety mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was present, and the coffee began to cool down as you sipped, subtle flavours of citrus fruit were detected.

The coffee is then be taken to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines, and brewed to your preferences in under a minute. Customers can select from nine single origins and different blends.

Parlor Coffee

In 2012, the company was established in the back of a barbershop, complete with a single-group espresso machine, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans are sold at top cafes, restaurants and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor is committed to sourcing high-quality beans from around the globe Each one is a long, arduous journey before reaching the hands of its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about their craft and believe that good coffee should be available to everyone," have created a environment that is simple, with chalkboards, compost bins and up-cycled products, and a minimalist interior.

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six on the menu when I was there) They also 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 beans, from chocolaty to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). It's a little away from the main roads, but well worth the trip.

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