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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are an avid coffee drinks drinker, then you should visit a coffee shop. These shops offer a variety of whole beans from around the world. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other items.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Others offer large quantities of coffee beans at their retail stores.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor who concentrates on international brews, loose teas, and a variety.

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. Unopened bags of dark brown beans are stacked on the shelves along with sugar jars, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, coffee shops Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who established businesses to serve their culinary requirements. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so popular at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around 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, the current owner and president of the business was raised over his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to run the shop in a similar way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster, is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. The neighborhood, which is part of Brooklyn's Bushwick district, is located on Grattan Street. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33, started roasting in a fourth-floor loft across the street 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 preference for micro-lots or even whole harvests from single farmers has earned it the acclaim of knowledgeable 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 peak ripeness, floated to remove defects, then dry fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, melon and lemongrass.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of staff and growers, and customers. It makes use of biodegradable disposables and composts, preventing waste from the landfill and converting it into agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also removes gratuities. This allows baristas to concentrate on their work and support their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience has earned them a following, not just in their own town, but globally.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They go through hundreds of varieties each year in order to select the beans that best match their ideals. Then, they roast them in a light style before dialing them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees a brighter taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which was opened in October of last year and has been praised by critics for its premium pour-overs, as well as the 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, plates and bowls are designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and son studio located in Horsens. In a recent Q&A with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different varieties of coffee each year, and typically has seven or eight coffees available at any given moment.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts its own coffee and brews according to your preferences, with every cup of coffee roasting and brewed according to your preferences in less than an hour. It searches countries far and across the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans that are directly sourced that offer customers a variety 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 in a heated box by high-velocity air, which keeps the green beans suspended and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate when they pass through the machine.

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

The coffee that has been roasted is whisked to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and you can have your coffee brewed to your specifications in less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as various blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor coffee shops Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, using a single espresso machine. It has since developed into a burgeoning coffee roastery, whose beans can be found in great cafes and restaurants as well as home brewers all over the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the highest-quality beans, which have all undergone a long journey before they reach its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about their craft and believe that great coffee should be available to everyone," have created a environment that is simple with chalkboards, compost bins and up-cycled products, and a minimalist interior.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, however they also have cuppings on Sundays, which are accessible to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room, where you can smell and taste the beans that are ground. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). It's a bit off the beaten track, but it's worth the drive.