Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're an avid coffee drinker, then you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These shops offer a broad range of whole beans 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 coffee beans at their retail stores.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller who is a specialist in international brews, loose teas and a variety.

The scent of freshly roasted beans fills the air when you walk into this West Village shop. The sacks of dark roast coffee beans brown beans line the shelves, along with sugar jars, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an large influx of Italian immigrants who established businesses to cater to their culinary requirements. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so renowned in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, which includes those from around the globe in three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. The company also roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the business was raised above the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He continues to run the business in the same manner like his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster is located on 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 across the street in 2011. They called it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the acclaim of 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 Coffeee Beans were picked at the peak of ripeness, then removed by flotation to eliminate defects, then dry fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's commitment extends beyond its shop to improve the overall well-being of staff and farmers, as well as customers. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, keeping waste out of garbage and converting it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also prevents gratuities. This allows baristas to focus on their craft and help sustain their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop 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 own town but also around the world.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They go through hundreds of varieties each year to find those that best meet their standards. They roast them lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This results in an enhanced taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which was opened in October of last year was praised for its excellent pour overs, as well as the baked goods, overseen and managed by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and various coffee establishments.

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates and bowls are designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and-son studio in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees every day and has typically seven or eight coffees available at any given time.

The Roasting Plant cafe coffee beans

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts its own coffee and brews to order with each cup of coffee roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than an hour. It searches countries far and across the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans, which are directly sourced that offer customers a variety and high-quality.

Their roaster on site is a fluid bed machine, that is distinct from the traditional drum machines that are used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in an enclosed box heated by high-speed air that keeps the green beans suspended and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner as they travel through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was incredibly rich and velvety with a velvety flavor. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma, and as you sip the coffee, you could detect subtle citrus fruit flavors.

The coffee that has been roasted is whisked to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing systems and you can have your coffee brewed to your specifications in under a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as various blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop equipped with an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become an energizing roastery whose coffees are found at great restaurants, cafes and home brewers across the city. Parlor is dedicated to procuring high-quality coffee beans from all over the world Each one has been through a long and difficult journey before reaching the roasters.

According to their own words the owners "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a belief that good coffee beans bristol should be accessible to anyone." They do just this by putting their home-like space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboard welcome hand-made up-cycled goods, and low-frills deco.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six while I was there) However, they also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Think of it as the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the ground beans, from chocolatey to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're away from the main roads, but well worth a trip.