Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur, then you will want to go to the shops selling coffee beans. These shops sell a range of whole beans from all over the globe. They also sell unique kitchenware and trinkets.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Others sell the beans in bulk at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

The scent of freshly roasted beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. The sacks of dark brown beans line the shelves alongside jars of sugar, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

Porto Rico was first 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 opened businesses to meet their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage that was so popular at the time that even the Pope drank it.

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

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

Sey Coffee

Located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey gourmet coffee beans, https://www.coffeee.uk, is both a cafe and a roaster. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in the fourth-floor loft located across the street at their new location in 2011 under the name Lofted Cafedirect Organic Honduras Coffee Beans - Premium Quality (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's preference for micro-lots or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the praise of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa region. The beans were hand-picked at their peak ripeness, floated to remove defects and then dried fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend that has hints of fruit and melon.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the well-being of growers, staff and customers extends beyond the store. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables to keep waste out of the landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts baristas in a position to help sustain their livelihoods and inspire them to focus on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a team of dedicated employees. Their innovative and honest method of providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a loyal following, not just in their hometown and across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, searching through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that match their ideals. They roast them in a light manner then dial the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more intense flavor and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October, with a minimalist and sleek design. It's been praised by global coffee aficionados for its exacting pour-overs and baked goods, which are overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

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

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant A multi-unit coffee retailer, roasts and brews the coffee on site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your preferences in less than seconds. It searches far and wide for the highest-grade specialty beans, which are directly sourced providing customers with choice and quality.

Their on-site roaster is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from classic drum machines used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in the heated box by high-speed air which keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate when they pass through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was rich and velvety with a velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma, and as you sipped the coffee, you could detect subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The coffee is transported to the Eversys brewing machines that are super-automatic and can be it is brewed to your requirements in less than a minute. Customers can choose from a variety of single origins and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop, complete with one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a rapidly growing roastery whose beans are sold at top restaurants, cafes and home brewers all over the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the highest-quality beans, which have gone through a long journey before reaching its roasters.

In their own words according to their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and believe that good coffee should be accessible to everyone." They do just this by putting their home-like space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboards hand-made up-cycled goods, and low-frills deco.

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there) However, they also do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Think of it like a tasting room for breweries. 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 worth the trip.