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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops
If you're a coffee lover You'll want to check out a coffee shop. These shops sell a range of whole beans from all over the globe. They also have unique kitchenware and trinkets.
Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others offer them in bulk at their retail stores.
Porto Rico Importing Co.
Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews, as well as a variety of loose teas
The scent of freshly roasting beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are packed with jars and sacks of dark brown beans, with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories and sugar.
Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing a surge of Italian immigrants, who established businesses in order to meet their food needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican gourmet coffee beans (Click To See More) she imported and sold - a beverage that was so well-known at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.
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 coffee beans. Porto Rico also roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC 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 operate the business in the same way as his father and grandfather.
Sey Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster located on Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This Brooklyn neighborhood, in the Bushwick district is located on Grattan Street. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33, started roasting in a fourth-floor loft just around the corner 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 emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from a single farmer has been praised by knowledgeable New York City coffee aficionados. The last time Sey was in the market, he purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were handpicked at the peak of ripeness, then floated to remove defects and dried fermented for 36 hours prior to being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry, lemongrass and melon.
Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall health of growers and staff, as well as its customers. It uses composts and biodegradable disposables to keep waste out of landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts baristas into a position to sustain their livelihoods and motivate them to focus on their profession.
La Cabra
La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a dedicated staff. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience has earned them a following, not just in their own town but all over the world.
La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, searching through hundreds of different varieties every year to find ones that are perfect for their tastes. They then roast them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a 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 premium pour-overs and baked goods, overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel, and other coffee establishments.
The shop utilizes the La Marzocco modbar, and the plates and cups are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. In a recent interview, Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different types of coffee per day and typically has seven or eight varieties on offer at any one time.
The Roasting Plant Coffee
The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee, roasts and brews its coffee on the spot. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than one second. It scour countries far and wide for the highest-grade specialty beans, which are directly sourced, offering customers choice and high-quality.
The on-site roaster employs fluid bed technology that is a bit different to the classic drum-type machines used in many UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around an enclosed box heated by high quality coffee beans-speed air that keeps the beans suspended and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate throughout the machine.
I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was smooth and rich with a velvety flavor. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma and as you sipped the coffee, you could detect subtle citrus fruit flavours.
The roasted coffee is then whisked to the Eversys super-automatic brewing systems and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences within less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as different blends.
Parlor Coffee
Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, using a single espresso machine. It has since grown into a bustling coffee roastery, whose beans are available in top cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to finding the finest quality beans, which have all been through a long journey before they reach its roasters.
According to their own words according to their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be available to anyone." They do just this by putting their home-like streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, a chalkboard welcome, handmade up-cycled products and a minimally-decorated space.
They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six while I was there) However, they also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Think of it like a tasting room for breweries. You can smell and taste the ground beans, from chocolatey to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). It's a bit off the beaten path, but worth the trip.