20 Up-Andcomers To Watch The Coffee Bean Shop Industry

Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur You'll want to check out a coffee bean shop. These stores provide a large assortment of whole beans from all over the world. They also sell exclusive trinkets, kitchenware and other products.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air as you walk into this West Village shop. The sacks of dark brown beans line the shelves, along with sugar jars, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.

Porto Rico was first opened in 1907 Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx of Italian immigrants, who set up businesses in order to meet their food requirements. Albanese named her shop after the popular Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage so popular that even the Pope drank 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 roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the company was raised on the top floor types of coffee his family's bakery located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to operate the shop in a similar manner as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee roaster and shop is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. The neighborhood, which is part of Brooklyn's Bushwick district is situated on Grattan Street. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 began roasting in a fourth-floor loft just around the corner from their new shop 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, or even entire harvests from single farmers has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. The last time Sey was in the market, he purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were harvested at their peak ripeness and then floated 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, melon and lemongrass.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall health of staff and growers, as well as customers. It makes use of biodegradable disposables and composts to keep waste out of landfills and converting it to substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also does away with gratuity, a move that puts baristas into a position to sustain their livelihoods and inspire them to concentrate on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience earned them a following, not just in their home town however, but across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, by scouring through hundreds of different lots every year to locate the ones that meet their standards. Then, they roast them in a 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 opened last October with a sleek, minimalist design, and has been praised by international coffee aficionados for its exacting pour-overs and baked goods that are overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

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

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer which roasts on-site and brews according to your preferences, with every cup of coffee roasted and coffee bean shop brewed according to your preferences in less than one minute. It searches the globe for the highest quality specialty beans that are directly sourced, giving customers choice and quality.

Their on-site roaster is a fluid bed device, that is distinct from the traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around in a heated container by high-speed air that keeps the beans suspended and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were present, and the coffee began to cool as you sip the coffee. The subtle scents of citrus fruit were detected.

The coffee that has been roasted will be whisked into the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your specifications in under a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origin options and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single group espresso machine. It has since grown into a flourishing coffee roastery, whose coffee beans can be found in a variety of great cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to sourcing the finest quality beans, which have all been through a long journey before reaching its roasters.

In their own words in their own words, they "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee should be accessible to anyone." They do just this by putting their home-like streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled products, and a simple deco.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there), but they also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room, where you can taste and smell the beans as they are roasted. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). It's a little off the beaten path but worth the trip.