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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover You'll want to visit a coffee bean shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from all across the globe. They also sell unique kitchenware and trinkets.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Others offer them in bulk at their retail stores.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

The scent of freshly roasted beans fills the air as you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are stacked with jars, sacks and dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories and sugar.

Porto Rico was first opened in 1907 Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who opened businesses in order to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so renowned in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the world 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 to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, was raised in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. The business is still run by the shop in a similar way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee roaster and shop, is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This Brooklyn neighborhood, in the Bushwick district is situated on Grattan Street. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in the fourth-floor loft around the corner from their new location in 2011 under the name Lofted coffee bean shop near me (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's preference for buying micro-lots, or even entire harvests, from single farmers has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa region. The beans were harvested at the peak of ripeness, and steamed to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee with hints of fruit and melon.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall well-being of employees and growers and customers. It makes use of biodegradable disposables and composts, preventing waste from landfills and turning it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that places baristas in the position to provide their livelihoods and inspire them to focus on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty-coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small shop and a dedicated staff. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing a unique coffee experience earned their acclaim not just in their hometown but also around the world.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to find their perfect beans. They scour through hundreds of varieties every year in order to find those that best fit their ideals. They roast them lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more intense flavor and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek minimalist design, and has been praised by international 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 as well as the cups, plates and bowls are crafted by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and son studio in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different types of coffee per day and has typically seven or eight varieties available at any given time.

The 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 being roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than one minute. It is a search engine for the finest specialty beans that are sourced directly providing customers with choices and high-quality.

The on-site roaster employs fluid bed technology that is a bit different to traditional drum-type machines found in the majority of UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around an enclosed box heated by high-speed air that keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee beans online and it was delicious with a an enveloping mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were present. The coffee began to cool as you sipped and subtle aromas of citrus fruit were evident.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and brewed to your specification in less than a minute. Customers can pick from a variety of single origins and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single espresso machine. It has since morphed into a burgeoning coffee roastery, whose beans are available in top cafes, restaurants, and home brewers in every city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing the highest rated coffee beans-quality beans across the globe each of which is a long, arduous journey before it reaches the roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about the craft and believe that a good cup of coffee should accessible to everyone," have created a environment that is simple and filled with chalkboards. There are compost bins, up-cycled handmade products, and a minimalist interior.

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. Think of it like an artisanal tasting room in which you can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty earthy (one was very tomato-like!). It's a bit off the beaten path but worth the journey.