Coffee Bean Shop: What No One Is Talking About

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 try out a coffee shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from around the world. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other items.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell coffee beans in bulk at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews and Coffee Beans Near Me - Pediascape.Science - a selection of loose teas

When you walk into this quaint West Village shop, the scent of freshly roasted beans fills your nose. The shelves are stacked with jars, sacks and dark brown beans, along with coffee beans online-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 set up businesses to cater to their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so popular at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. The company roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the company was raised over his family's bakery located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to run the shop in the same way as his grandfather and father.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from single farmers--has earned it the acclaim of highly discerning 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 handpicked at peak ripeness, floated to eliminate any defects and then dried fermented for 36 hours prior to being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee that is fragrant with hints of fruit and melon.

Sey's commitment extends beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of growers and staff, as well as customers. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, preventing waste from landfills and turning it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and feed the soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This lets baristas concentrate on their work and help sustain their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee beans sale brand, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a committed staff. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a loyal fan base not just in their own town and across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous process to find their perfect beans, searching through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that are perfect for their tastes. They roast them in a very light style then dial them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees a brighter taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which was opened in October of last year it has been praised for its premium coffee beans pour-overs, as well as the baked goods, overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and various coffee establishments.

The shop uses a La Marzocco modbar, and the cups and plates are custom-designed at 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 has usually seven or eight varieties available at any one time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts its own coffee and brews on demand, with each cup of coffee roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than one minute. It scour countries far and wide for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced, offering customers choice and quality.

Their roaster 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 a heated box by high-velocity air that keeps the beans suspended and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner as they move through the machine.

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

The 500g coffee beans is whisked to the Eversys super-automatic brewing systems and brewed to your specification in less than a minute. Customers can pick from a selection of nine single origin choices and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop with one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans can be found in top rated coffee beans cafes, restaurants and home brewers across the city. Parlor is dedicated to procuring high-quality coffee beans from around the globe each of which has been through a long and difficult journey before it reaches the hands of its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about craft and believe that a good cup of coffee should accessible to everyone," have created a space that is grounded with chalkboards, compost bins, recycled handmade items, and simple decor.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins. But they also hold cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room, where you can smell and taste the beans as they are roasted. They vary from earthy to chocolaty (one was almost like tomato!). They're a bit away from the tourist trail, but is worth a visit.