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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are a coffee enthusiast, you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These shops offer a variety of whole beans from all over the world. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews as well as a range of loose teas

When you walk into this traditional West Village shop, the scent of freshly coffee beans fills your nostrils. The shelves are filled with jars, sacks and dark brown beans, with top rated coffee Beans-making equipment, tea accessories, and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increasing number of Italian immigrants who had opened establishments to cater to their dietary requirements. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so well-known in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, which includes those from around the globe located in three locations including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. The company roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution for 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 was the owner of Porto Rico. He still runs the business in the same fashion as his father did 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 began roasting in a fourth-floor loft located across the street from their new shop in 2011 under the name Lofted coffee beans for sale (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 praise of discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at their peak ripeness, floated to eliminate any defects, then dry fermented for 36 hours prior to being dried on the farm. 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 farmers, as well as its customers. It makes use of biodegradable disposables and composts to keep waste out of landfills and turning it into agents that lower harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also does away with gratuity, a move that puts baristas into a position to support their livelihoods and encourage them to focus on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was established in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a dedicated team. Their honest and creative approach to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience has earned them a following, not just in their hometown but all over the world.

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

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

The shop is equipped with the La Marzocco modbar and the plates and cups are custom-designed at 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 typically has seven or eight varieties available at any one time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee bean shop roasts and brews the coffee on site. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than seconds. It searches far and far to find the finest, directly sourced specialty beans that provide customers with a choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster uses fluid bed technology which is a bit different to the drum-type machines commonly found in the majority of UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around in the heated box by high-speed air which keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner when they pass through the machine.

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

The roasted coffee will then be taken to the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origin options and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor unroasted coffee beans was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, with a single group espresso machine. It has since morphed into a burgeoning coffee roastery, whose beans can be found in a variety of great cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers all over the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing high-quality beans from across the globe, each of which has been through a long and difficult journey before getting into the hands of its roasters.

In their own words in their own words, they "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a belief that good coffee should be accessible to everyone." They do just that with their down-to-earth space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboard welcome, handmade up-cycled products and a minimally-decorated space.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six on the menu when I was there) Also, they do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room, where you can taste and smell the beans that are ground. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). It's a bit off the beaten path but it's worth the drive.