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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a speciality coffee beans lover, then you will want to go to a coffee bean shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from around the world. They also sell unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops sell coffee beans in large quantities.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

When you enter this quaint West Village shop, the scent of freshly coffee beans fills your nostrils. Open sacks of dark-brown beans are stacked on the shelves along with sugar jars as well as coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

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

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including those from around the globe, at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. Porto Rico roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the company, grew up above the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in a similar fashion as his father did and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's commitment to buying micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from single farmers has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. 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 carefully picked at the peak of ripeness, then removed by flotation to eliminate defects, then dry fermented for a period of 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee with hints of fruit and melon.

Sey's commitment to holistically improving the well-being of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the retail store. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, keeping waste out of the landfill and converting it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also prevents gratuities. This lets baristas concentrate on their craft and support their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small shop and a committed team. Their honest and innovative approach to providing an outstanding coffee experience has earned them a loyal following not just in their own town but all over the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, going through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that are perfect for their tastes. They then medium roast coffee beans them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more intense flavor and clarity.

The East Village store, which was opened in October of last year was praised for its top-quality pour-overs and baked goods, overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel, and other organic coffee beans houses.

The shop employs a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and son studio located in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves about 250 different coffees per year, and typically has seven or eight coffees available at any given time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts its own coffee and brews on demand, with every cup of coffee roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than one minute. It searches far and far for the finest quality, directly sourced specialty beans that provide customers with a choice and high quality coffee beans-quality.

The roaster they have on site is a fluid bed device, that is distinct from the traditional drum machines found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown into a heated container with high-speed and circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a constant roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran speciality coffee beans and it was rich with an enveloping mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was present, and the coffee began to cool as you sipped, subtle flavours of citrus fruit were evident.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in under a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origins and various blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop, complete with one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans are found at great restaurants, cafes and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to sourcing the highest-quality beans, which have gone through a long journey before they reach its roasters.

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

They roast and make their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there), but they also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Think of it as the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten path however, they're it's worth the trip.