Jeffrey Luce

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. They offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all over the world. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other things.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others offer coffee beans in bulk (https://ai-db.Science/wiki/10_of_the_top_facebook_pages_of_all_time_concerning_coffee_beans_online) at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that concentrates on international brews, loose teas, and a variety.

When you enter this old-fashioned West Village shop, the scent of freshly roasting beans fills the air. Open sacks of dark-brown beans line the shelves alongside jars of sugar coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories.

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who established businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so well-known in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

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

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

Sey Coffee

The shop is 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 across the street at their new location in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's reliance on micro-lots -- or even whole harvests from a single farmer has earned it the acclaim of knowledgeable New York City coffee aficionados. 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 their peak ripeness, floated to remove defects and then dried fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee with hints of fruit and melon.

Sey's commitment extends beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of staff and growers, as well as customers. It makes use of composts and biodegradable products to keep waste from the landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts baristas in a position to help sustain their livelihoods and encourage them to focus on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty strong coffee beans company, was established in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a dedicated staff. Their innovative and honest approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not only in their home town but all over the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process to find their perfect beans, scouring through hundreds of different varieties every year to locate the ones that meet their standards. Then, they roast them in a light style, dialing them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a greater clarity and a more vibrant taste.

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

The shop uses a La Marzocco Modbar, and the coffee bean shop cups, plates and bowls are designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father and son studio located in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees per day and has typically seven or eight different varieties available at any given moment.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee, roasts and brews coffee on-site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your specifications within less than a second. It scour the globe for the highest quality specialty beans that are sourced directly offering customers a choices and high-quality.

The on-site roaster employs fluid bed technology which is a bit different to the classic drum-type machines used in many UK unroasted coffee beans wholesale shops. The beans are blown about in a heated box by high-velocity air that keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate as they travel through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was very rich with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was present and the coffee started to cool as you sipped delicate citrus flavours fruit were detected.

The coffee that has been roasted is transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and you can have your coffee brewed to your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can select from a selection of nine single origin choices and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop that had an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans are available at top cafes, restaurants and home brewers in the city. Parlor is committed to procuring high-quality coffee beans from all over the world, each of which has endured a laborious journey before it reaches the hands of its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about coffee and believe that great coffee should be available to everyone," have created a environment that is simple and has chalkboards, compost bins and up-cycled products, and minimal decor.

They medium roast coffee beans and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six while I was there) Also, they do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room where you can taste and smell the ground beans. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). It's a little off the beaten path but well worth the trip.