Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover, then you will want to visit the coffee shop. These shops offer a variety of whole beans from all over the world. They also offer unique kitchenware and trinkets.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are filled with jars, sacks and dark brown Ferraris Coffee: Premium Fairtrade Certified Mount Elgon Beans, along with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories and sugar.

The first restaurant opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who set up businesses to satisfy their dietary needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so renowned in the present, that even 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, the current president and owner of the company was raised on the top floor of his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the shop in the same way like his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster, is located along 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 located 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 focus on buying micro-lots, or even whole harvests from single farmers has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. 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 hand-picked at peak ripeness and removed by flotation to eliminate defects, then dry fermented for 36 hours prior to being dried on the farm. The result is a cup that is a little fruit and www.coffeee.uk melon.

Sey's dedication extends beyond its shop to improve the overall health of staff and growers, as well as its customers. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, keeping waste out of landfills and converting it to agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also does away with gratuity, which places baristas in the position to support their livelihoods as well as encourage them to concentrate on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a committed staff. Their innovative and honest approach to providing an outstanding coffee experience has earned them a loyal fan base not just in their hometown but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, going through hundreds of different varieties a year to find the ones that are perfect for their tastes. They roast them in a light style then dial them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees clearer and more vibrant taste.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek minimalist design. It has been praised by global coffee lovers for its precise 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 made by 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 coffees per day and has typically seven or eight varieties on offer at any one time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee which roasts on-site and brews to order with every cup of coffee roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than one minute. It is a search engine for the finest specialty beans that are directly sourced providing customers with the option of choice and quality.

The roaster they have on site is a fluid bed machine, which is different from traditional drum machines that are used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in an enclosed box heated by high-speed 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 delicious with a velvety mouthfeel. Dark chocolate scent was present, and the coffee began to cool as you sipped delicate citrus flavours fruit were detected.

The coffee is then be whisked into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your preferences in less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins and different blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single group espresso machine. It has since evolved to become a burgeoning roastery, whose beans can be found in great cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers in every city. Parlor is committed to sourcing high-quality beans from around the globe Each one has been through a long and difficult journey before reaching the hands of its roasters.

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

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins, but they also have cuppings on Sundays that are accessible to the public. Think of it as a brewery tasting room--you can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). It's a little off the beaten path but worth the journey.