Mathew Deshotel

Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover, you should go to a coffee shop. They offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all over the world. They also sell unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops sell the beans in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee beans sale vendor who specialises in international brews loose teas and a variety.

The scent of freshly roasting beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are lined with jars and bags of dark brown beans, with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories, and sugar.

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an influx of Italian immigrants who established businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the popular Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage so famous at the time that even the Pope took a sip.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, 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 president and owner of the business was raised on the top floor of the bakery of his family on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He still runs the business in the same way to his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's focus on buying micro-lots, or even whole harvests from single farmers has earned it the acclaim of New York City coffee enthusiasts. 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 hand-picked at their peak ripeness, floated to get rid of any imperfections, then dry fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry melon and lemongrass.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of growers and staff, as well as its customers. It uses composts and biodegradable disposables in order to ensure that waste is kept out of landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases as well as nourish the soil. It also does away with gratuity, which puts baristas into a position to provide their livelihoods as well as encourage them to focus on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee business that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company started with a modest store and a team of dedicated employees. Their open and creative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience earned them a following not only in their own town but all over the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process to find their perfect beans, scouring through hundreds of different varieties a year to find the ones that meet their standards. They roast them lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This results in clearer and more vibrant taste.

The East Village store, which opened in October last year and has been praised by critics for its excellent pour overs as well as its baked goods, which are overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and other coffee houses.

The shop utilizes a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups, plates and bowls are designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father and son studio located in Horsens. 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 on offer at any time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts on site and brews to order with every cup of coffee bean suppliers near me roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than an hour. It searches the world for the highest quality specialty coffee beans beans that are sourced directly offering customers a choice and quality.

Their roaster on site is a fluid bed device, which is different from the traditional drum machines found in UK premium coffee beans shops. The beans are blown around in an enclosed box heated by high-speed air that keeps the green beans in suspension and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was rich and velvety with a velvety flavor. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma, and as you sip the coffee you could detect subtle citrus fruit flavors.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and it is brewed to your requirements in under a minute. Customers can select from nine single origins and several blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single group espresso machine. It has since developed to become a burgeoning roastery, and its beans are available in top cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers across the city. Parlor is committed to procuring high-quality coffee beans from around the globe Each one has had to endure a lengthy journey before it reaches the roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about their craft and believe that good coffee should accessible to everyone," have created a space that is down-to earth with chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made items, and simple decor.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins, however they also have cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the general public. Think of it like the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the ground beans, from chocolatey to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten path however, they're well worth a trip.