Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur, then you will want to try out the shops selling coffee beans. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from all across the globe. They also sell unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specialises in international brews loose teas, and a wide selection.

As you enter this quaint West Village shop, the smell of fresh roasting beans fills the air. The shelves are lined with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee beans bulk buy (click here to visit historydb.date for free) accessories and sugar.

The first restaurant opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increasing number of Italian immigrants who set up businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so famous at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, which includes beans from all over the world located in three locations including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. The company also roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. He continues to run the shop in the same way as his father and grandfather.

Sey coffee bean company

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

Sey's commitment to buying micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the praise 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 harvested at the peak of ripeness, and steamed to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend with hints of berry lemongrass and melon.

Sey's goal of holistically improving the wellbeing of employees, customers and growers extends beyond the shop. It uses composts and biodegradable disposables to ensure that waste is kept out of the landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also does away with gratuity, a move that puts baristas into a position to help sustain their livelihoods as well as encourage them to focus on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They began with a small shop and a team of dedicated employees. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing a unique coffee experience has earned them a following, not just in their own town but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, searching through hundreds of different lots each year to identify the ones that fit their ideals. Then, they roast them in a very light manner and dial them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more vibrant taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which opened in the month of October last year was praised for its top-quality pour-overs and 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 made 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 about 250 different coffees per year, and typically has seven or eight varieties available at any given time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts its own coffee and brews according to your preferences, with every cup of coffee roasting and brewed to your specifications in less than a minute. It scour countries far and far for the finest quality specialty beans that are directly sourced, offering customers choice and 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 inside a heated container with high-speed and circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a consistent roasting speed.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was velvety and rich with a rich and velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma. And as you sip the coffee you could smell subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The coffee is then be taken to the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines and brewed according to your specifications in less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as several 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 beans can be found in a variety of great cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers all over the coffee bean shop city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the finest quality beans, which have been through a lengthy journey before arriving at its roasters.

According to their own words the owners "have a relentless passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee should be available to anyone." They do just this by putting their home-like area on a residential street. Think compost bins, chalkboard welcome, handmade up-cycled products and a minimalist deco.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six when I was there) However, they also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room where you can taste and smell the ground beans. They vary from earthy to chocolaty (one was similar to tomato!). It's a little away from the main roads, but it's worth the drive.