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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover then you'll want to go to a coffee bean shop. These shops sell a range of whole beans from around the globe. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other items.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that concentrates on international brews, loose teas, and a wide selection.

When you step into this traditional West Village shop, the aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air. Open bags of dark-brown beans are displayed on the shelves alongside sugar jars, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

In 1907, the first time it was opened, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx of Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses to meet their food needs. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - - a drink that was that was so well-known 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 located in three locations including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. Porto Rico roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the business was raised on the top floor of the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He continues to run the business in the same way like his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

It is located on Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a roaster and coffee shop. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders began roasting coffee in a loft on the fourth floor just around the corner, in the year 2011. They called it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's focus on purchasing micro-lots, or even whole harvests from a single farmer has been praised by highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at peak ripeness and floated to eliminate any defects and then dried fermented for a period of 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend that has hints of fruit and melon.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall health of employees and growers as well as its customers. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts, preventing waste from landfills and converting it to agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity, which puts the baristas in a position to help sustain their livelihoods and encourage them to concentrate on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a dedicated staff. Their honest and innovative approach to providing an outstanding coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not only in their local area but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, scouring through hundreds of different varieties a year to find the ones that are perfect for their tastes. They roast them light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This results in a brighter taste and clarity.

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

The shop utilizes a La Marzocco Modbar as well as the cups, plates and bowls are crafted by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and-son studio in Horsens. In a recent Q&A with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves about 250 different varieties of coffee each year, and typically has seven or eight coffees available at any given point.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

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

The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology, which is a bit different to traditional drum-type machines found in many UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around in the heated box by high-speed air which keeps the beans suspended and coffee bean shop allows roasting to happen in a steady manner as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was delicious with a an enveloping mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were evident and the coffee began to cool while you sipped the coffee. The subtle scents of citrus fruit were detected.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and you can have your coffee brewed to your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origin selections and a wide range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop with a single-group espresso machine, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans are found at great restaurants, cafes and home brewers across the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing the highest-quality beans around the globe, each of which has been through a long and difficult journey before arriving in the hands of its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about their craft and believe that great coffee should be accessible to all," have created a place that is a bit more grounded with chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and low-frills decor.

They roast and make their own blends and single-origins (there were six while I was there), but they also do cuppings Sundays, which 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!). It's a bit away from the main roads, but worth the journey.