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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

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

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran Strong Coffee Beans retailer specializing international brews as well as a range of loose teas

The scent of freshly roasted beans fills the air once you walk into this West Village shop. Open bags of dark-brown beans line the shelves alongside sugar jars, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an large influx of Italian immigrants who opened businesses to meet their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the popular Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - - a drink that was so popular that even the Pope was a fan.

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

Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the business was raised over his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He still runs the business in the same way as his grandfather and father.

Sey Coffee

It is located on 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 the fourth-floor loft located across the street from their new store in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's focus on purchasing micro-lots, or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the respect of discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year, they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were picked at their peak ripeness and then floated to eliminate any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup with hints of berry, melon and lemongrass.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the wellbeing of staff, growers and customers extends beyond the retail store. It utilizes composts and biodegradable plastics to keep waste from landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also nourish the soil. It also prevents gratuities. This allows baristas to concentrate on their work and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee brand, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and creative approach to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience earned them a following not only in their hometown but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, scouring through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that fit their ideals. They roast them light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more intense flavor and clarity.

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

The shop uses a La Marzocco modbar and the plates and cups are custom-designed at Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, a father and son studio. In a recent Q&A with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different coffees a year, and usually has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given point.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant A multi-unit retailer of coffee, roasts and brews coffee on site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your requirements in less than one second. It scour countries far and wide for the highest-grade, directly sourced specialty beans that offer customers a variety and high-quality.

The roaster they have on site is an automatic fluid bed machine that is distinct from the traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee bean near me shops. The beans are blown around in the heated box by high-speed air that keeps the green beans in suspension and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was delicious with a velvety mouthfeel. Dark chocolate aroma was present, and the coffee began to cool as you sip and subtle aromas of citrus fruit were detected.

The coffee that has been roasted will be taken to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines and brewed according your preferences within less than a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origins and different blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop equipped with a single group espresso machine. It has since developed into a flourishing coffee roastery, whose beans can be found in great cafes and restaurants as well as home brewers across the city. Parlor is committed to sourcing top-quality beans from around the globe, each of which has had to endure a lengthy journey before it reaches the roasters.

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

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six on the menu when I was there), but they also do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Think of it as the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the beans, from chocolaty to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're off the beaten track but are worthwhile to visit.