Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a lover of coffee, then you will want to visit a coffee bean shop (https://instituto.disitec.pe/blog/index.php?entryid=114772). These shops sell a range of whole beans from all over the world. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other things.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews and a selection of loose teas

When you step into this quaint West Village shop, the scent of freshly roasted beans fills your nose. The shelves are filled with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories and sugar.

In 1907, the first time it was opened, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who established businesses to satisfy their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so famous that at the time, even the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico also roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, was raised in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in the same way as his grandfather and father.

Sey coffee beans shop

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

Sey's reliance on micro-lots -- or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the praise of the most discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year they made a 6-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were harvested at their peak ripeness and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup with hints of berry, lemongrass and melon.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the quality of life for staff, growers and customers extends beyond the store. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables to ensure that waste is kept out of landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This allows baristas to focus on their craft and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a dedicated team. Their honest and innovative method of providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a loyal following not just in their local area but all over the world.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, by scouring through hundreds of different varieties a year to find the ones that meet their standards. They roast them in a light manner and dial them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees an enhanced taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which opened in October last year it has been praised for its high-quality pour overs as well as its baked goods, which are overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and various coffee houses.

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

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant, a multi-unit retailer of coffee, roasts and brews coffee bean company on site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your specifications within less than seconds. It searches countries far and across the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans that are directly sourced, offering customers choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster is a fluid bed machine, which is different from the traditional drum machines found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in a heated box by high-velocity air that keeps the green beans suspended and allows them to be roasted at a consistent rate as they move through the machine.

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

The coffee is whisked to the Eversys brewing machines that are super-automatic and can be the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in under a minute. Customers can select from nine single origins and several blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop equipped with a single group espresso machine. It has since developed into a flourishing coffee roastery, and its beans can be found in a variety of great cafes, restaurants, and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to finding the highest-quality beans, that have been through a lengthy journey before reaching its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about coffee and believe that great coffee should be available to everyone," have created a space that is grounded with chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and low-frills decor.

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six when I was there) They also hold cuppings on Sundays, and are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting area--you can smell and taste the ground beans. They are a mix of earthy and chocolate (one was almost like tomato!). They're away from the tourist trail, but well worth a trip.