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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to go to the shops selling coffee beans. These shops provide a variety of whole beans from around the world. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other items.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell coffee beans in bulk - please click the following website - at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews and a selection of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are stacked with jars, sacks and dark brown beans, along with tea-making equipment, coffee beans bulk buy accessories, and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who established businesses to cater to their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the famous Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) the beverage was so famous at the time that even the Pope drank it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online coffee beans. Porto Rico also roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. He continues to run the business in the same way to his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a coffee shop and roaster. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in a fourth-floor loft located across the street from their new location in 2011 under the name Lofted amazon coffee beans (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the acclaim of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa region. The beans were harvested at their peak of ripeness and then steamed to eliminate any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup that is fragrant with hints of berry and melon.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the quality of life for growers, staff and customers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It uses composts and biodegradable plastics to keep waste from landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, which places baristas in the position to sustain their livelihoods and inspire them to focus on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a dedicated staff. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned their acclaim not just in their hometown however, but across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, by scouring through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that are perfect for their tastes. They roast them in a light manner, dialing them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This results in an enhanced taste and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek and minimalist design. It has been praised worldwide by coffee aficionados for its exacting 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 is equipped with a La Marzocco modbar, and the plates and cups are made by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. 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 Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit coffee retailer roasts and brews coffee on site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your specifications in less than seconds. It is a search engine for the finest specialty beans that are sourced directly, giving customers the option of choice and quality.

The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology, which is quite different from the drum-type machines commonly found in the majority of UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around in a heated box by high-velocity air, which keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner as they travel through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was rich and velvety with a velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma. As you sipped the coffee you could smell subtle citrus fruit aromas.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and brewed to your specification in less than a minute. Customers can select from nine single origin selections and a wide range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

In 2012, the company was established in the back of a barbershop that had an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans are found at great cafes, restaurants and home brewers all over the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to sourcing the finest quality beans, which have all been through a long journey before reaching its roasters.

In their own words the owners "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be accessible to anyone." They do just that with their down-to-earth area on a residential street. Think compost bins, chalkboards, handmade up-cycled products and a minimalist deco.

They roast and make their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there) Also, they hold cuppings on Sundays, and are open to the public. Think of it as an artisanal tasting room in which you can smell and taste the beans, from chocolaty to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). It's a bit away from the main roads, but worth the trip.