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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur You'll want to try out a coffee bean shop. These stores provide a large assortment 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 sell large quantities of coffee beans at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor specializing in international brews and a selection of loose teas

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

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who opened businesses to satisfy their food needs. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican coffee beans manchester she imported (and sold) the beverage was so famous at the time that even the Pope was a fan.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including beans from all over the world in 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 located on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in the same way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both an espresso bar and a coffee roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders started roasting coffee in the loft on the fourth floor, just across the street in the year 2011. The name was 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--has earned it the acclaim of knowledgeable New York City coffee aficionados. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at peak ripeness, floated to eliminate any defects and dried fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of fruit and melon.

Sey's focus on holistically improving the well-being of employees, customers and growers extends beyond the shop. It utilizes composts and biodegradable disposables to keep waste out of the garbage dumps. This helps reduce greenhouse gases as well as nourish the soil. It also does away with gratuity, which puts baristas in a position to support their livelihoods and motivate them to concentrate on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a dedicated team. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing an exceptional coffee experience earned them a following that was not only in their own town however, but across the globe.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to find their perfect beans. They scour hundreds of varieties every year in order to find those that best fit their ideals. Then they roast them in a very light manner and dial them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees more clarity and a better taste.

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

The shop uses the La Marzocco modbar and the plates and cups are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, the son and father studio. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different coffees a year, and typically has seven or eight different varieties available at any given time.

The Roasting Plant coffee beans to buy

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee roasts and brews its coffee on the spot. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your specifications in less than a second. It searches the world for the highest-quality specialty beans that are directly sourced to give customers the option of choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster is an automatic fluid bed machine that is distinct from the traditional drum machines that are used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around an enclosed box heated by high-speed air which keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner when they pass through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was 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 flavours.

The unroasted coffee beans wholesale is then be transferred to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines and brewed according your preferences in less than one minute. Customers can choose from nine single origins and several blends.

Parlor Coffee

In 2012, the company was established in the back of a barbershop with one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans can be found in top cafes, restaurants and home brewers across the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing top-quality beans from all over the world Each one has been through a long and difficult journey before getting into the hands of its roasters.

According to their own words in their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and a conviction that good coffee beans coffee should be accessible to everyone." They accomplish that by creating a simple space on a residential street--think compost bins, a chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled items, and a minimally-decorated space.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six when I was there) They also do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area--you can taste and smell the ground beans. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). It's a little off the beaten path but it's worth the drive.