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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are a coffee enthusiast, you should visit a coffee shop. These stores offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all over the world. They also sell unique kitchenware and trinkets.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Some shops offer these in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

When you step into this old-fashioned West Village shop, the scent of freshly roasting beans fills your nostrils. The shelves are stacked with jars and sacks of dark brown beans, along with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories, and sugar.

Originally 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 established businesses to satisfy their food requirements. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so well-known at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including those from around the globe in three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. Porto Rico 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 continues to run the business in the same way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

It is located along 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 started roasting coffee in the loft on the fourth floor just around the corner in 2011. They called it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the respect of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In the past they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were hand-picked at the peak of ripeness, then removed by flotation to eliminate defects, then dry fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend with hints of berry lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's goal of holistically improving the wellbeing of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the retail store. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables to keep waste out of the landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that places baristas in the position to support their livelihoods and inspire them to focus on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing a unique coffee experience earned their acclaim not just in their home town but also around the world.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They scour hundreds of varieties each year in order to find those that best fit their ideals. Then they roast them in a very light style and dial them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more vibrant flavor and clarity.

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

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

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant coffee bean shop

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee which roasts on-site and brews according to your preferences, with every cup of coffee roasting and brewed according to your preferences in less than one minute. It scour countries far and far for the finest quality specialty beans, which are directly sourced, offering customers choice and quality.

The roaster they have on site is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from the traditional drum machines found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown through a heated container with high-speed and circulating air. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a consistent roasting speed.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was a rich cup with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were present, and types Of Coffee the coffee began to cool down as you sipped delicate citrus flavours fruit were evident.

The coffee is then be transferred to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your specifications in under a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as different blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop using a single espresso machine. It has since evolved to become a burgeoning roastery, and its beans are available in top cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to finding the finest quality beans, which have all undergone a long journey before reaching its roasters.

In their own words, they "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee should be available to anyone." They achieve this with their earthy street space, which includes compost bins, a chalkboard welcome hand-made up-cycled goods, and a simple deco.

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there) They also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting area where you can smell and taste the beans as they are roasted. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). They're off the beaten track but are well worth a trip.