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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to visit a coffee bean shop. These shops offer a broad selection of whole beans from all over the world. They also offer unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

When you walk into this old-fashioned West Village shop, the scent of freshly coffee beans fills your nostrils. Open sacks of dark-brown beans line the shelves alongside jars of sugar, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who established establishments to cater to their dietary needs. Albanese named her shop after the popular Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage so popular that even the Pope was a fan.

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

Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the company, grew up above his family's bakery located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in the same way like his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

It is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a cafe and a 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 (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's focus on purchasing micro-lots, or even whole harvests from a single farmer has earned it the acclaim of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year 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 then steamed to eliminate any imperfections. 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 focus on holistically improving the health of employees, customers and growers extends beyond the retail store. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables to ensure that waste is kept out of landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, which puts baristas into a position to sustain their livelihoods and encourage them to concentrate on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee near me company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a loyal fan base not just in their hometown but also around the world.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They search through hundreds of varieties each year to find those that best fit their ideals. They roast them in a very light style before dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a greater clarity and a more vibrant taste.

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

The shop employs the La Marzocco modbar, and the plates and cups are made by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, the son and father studio. In a recent interview Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees a yea and has typically seven or eight coffees available at any given moment.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit coffee retailer roasts and brews coffee on-site. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your specifications within less than an hour. It scour the globe for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced, coffee bean shop giving customers choice and quality.

The on-site roaster employs fluid bed technology which is quite different from the drum-type machines commonly found in many UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around in a heated container by high-speed air that keeps the green beans suspended and allows them to be roasted at a consistent rate as they travel through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was a rich cup with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was present. The coffee began to cool down as you sipped, subtle flavours of citrus fruit were evident.

The coffee is whisked to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in just a few minutes. Customers can select from nine single origins and a variety blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, equipped with a single group espresso machine. It has since developed to become a burgeoning roastery, with beans that are sold in top cafes and restaurants as well as home brewers across the city. Parlor is committed to procuring high-quality coffee beans from around the globe, each of which has endured a laborious journey before it reaches the hands of its roasters.

According to their own words in their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a belief that good coffee should be available to everyone." They achieve this with their earthy street space, which includes compost bins, a chalkboard welcome hand-made up-cycled goods, and low-frills deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins. But they also hold 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 similar to tomato!). They're a bit away from the main roads, but it's worth the trip.