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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're an avid coffee drinker, then you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These stores offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all across the globe. They also offer unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Some shops sell them in large quantities.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller who specializes in international brews, loose teas and a selection.

The scent of freshly roasted beans fills the air when you walk into this West Village shop. The shelves are packed with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, along 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 opened businesses to meet their food requirements. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so popular that at the time, even the Pope would drink 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. Porto Rico also roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. He still runs the business in the same manner as 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 just around the corner from their new shop 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 a single farmer has earned it the praise of 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 Santo region. The beans were harvested at their peak of ripeness and then steamed to eliminate any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation.  highest rated coffee beans  is a coffee with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's goal of holistically improving the well-being of staff, growers and customers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It utilizes composts and biodegradable disposables in order to ensure that waste is kept out of the landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also does away with gratuity, which puts baristas in a position to help sustain their livelihoods and motivate them to concentrate on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a committed team. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience has earned them a following, not just in their home town but all over the world.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They go through hundreds of varieties every year in order to find beans that match their ideals. Then, they roast them in a very light manner then dial them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more vibrant flavor and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek and minimalist design, and has been praised by global coffee lovers for its precise pour-overs and baked goods supervised 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 cups plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father and son studio located in Horsens. In a recent Q&A with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different coffees a year, and usually has seven or eight different varieties available at any given point.

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 brewed and roasted according to your requirements in less than an hour. It searches far and far to find the finest specialty beans, which are directly sourced providing customers with choice and high-quality.

The on-site roaster employs fluid bed technology, which is a bit different to the drum-type machines commonly found in most UK coffee houses. The beans are blown into a heated box with high-velocity air that is circulated. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a constant roasting speed.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was incredibly rich and velvety with a smooth taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma, and as you sip the coffee, there were subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The roasted coffee will be taken to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines and brewed according your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can choose from a variety of single origins and a variety of 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 bustling coffee roastery, with beans that can be found in great cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers across the city. Parlor is committed to procuring high-quality coffee beans from around the globe each of which is a long, arduous journey before getting into the roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about the craft and believe that a good cup of coffee should be available to everyone," have created a space that is down-to earth and filled with chalkboards. There are compost bins, up-cycled hand-made items, and simple decor.

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