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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a lover of coffee, then you will want to check out a coffee bean shop. These stores provide a large variety of beans that are whole from all over the world. They also have unique kitchenware and trinkets.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Some shops sell these in large quantities.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews, loose teas and a variety.

The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air as you enter this West Village shop. Open sacks of dark-brown beans line the shelves, along with jars of sugar, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

The first restaurant opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who established establishments to cater to their dietary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the popular Puerto Rican coffee beans price she imported (and sold) the beverage was that was so well-known at the time that even the Pope took a sip.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including beans from all over the world in three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the business was raised above his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He continues to run the business 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. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 began roasting in a fourth-floor loft located across the street from their new shop in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's decision to buy micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. The last time Sey was in the market, he purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were harvested at their peak ripeness and then floated to eliminate any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the wellbeing of staff, growers and customers extends beyond the retail store. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, keeping waste out of the landfill and converting it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that places baristas in the position to provide their livelihoods and motivate them to focus on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a dedicated team. Their honest and creative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a following, not just in their home town however, but across the globe.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They scour hundreds of beans each year in order to select the beans that best meet their standards. They then roast them very lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees greater clarity and a more vibrant taste.

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

The shop uses the La Marzocco Modbar, and the cups, plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father/son studio in Horsens. In a recent Q&A 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 different varieties available at any given time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

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

The roaster they have on site is a fluid bed machine which is different from classic drum machines used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around in an enclosed box heated by high-speed air which keeps the green beans suspended and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate as they move through the machine.

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

The roasted coffee will be whisked into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines to be brewed according your specifications in less than one minute. Customers can select from nine single origin selections and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop with a single-group espresso machine, Parlor coffee beans shop 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 across the globe Each one has endured a laborious journey before arriving in the hands of its roasters.

In their own words according to their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and a conviction that good coffee should be accessible to anyone." They do just this with their earthy street space, which includes compost bins, a chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled items, and low-frills deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins. However, they also host cuppings on Sundays, which are accessible to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room where you can smell and taste the beans that are ground. They are a mix of earthy and chocolate (one was almost like tomato!). It's a little off the beaten path but it's worth the drive.