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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are a coffee enthusiast, you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These shops offer a broad range of whole beans from all across the globe. They also offer unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews, as well as a variety of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air when you walk into this West Village shop. Open sacks of dark-brown beans are displayed on the shelves alongside jars of sugar, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

Porto Rico was first opened in 1907 Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increasing number of Italian immigrants who had opened businesses to cater to their culinary needs.  light roast coffee beans  named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so famous at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

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

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the company was raised on the top floor of the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. The business is still run by the business in the same fashion as his father did and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's commitment to buying micro-lots, and 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 carefully picked at peak ripeness, floated to get rid of any imperfections and then dried fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee that has hints of the melon and berry.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall well-being of employees and growers and customers. It uses composts and biodegradable disposables in order to ensure that waste is kept out of the garbage dumps. This helps reduce greenhouse gases as well as nourish the soil. It also reduces gratuity. This lets baristas focus on their craft and to earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee business that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing a unique coffee experience earned their acclaim not just in their own town but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, searching through hundreds of different varieties a year to find the ones that fit their ideals. Then they roast them in a light manner before dialing them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more intense flavor and clarity.

The East Village store, which opened in the month of October last year, has been praised for its top-quality pour-overs, as well as the baked goods that are overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and various coffee houses.

The shop utilizes the La Marzocco Modbar and the cups, plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and-son studio in Horsens. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different varieties of coffee each year, and usually has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given point.

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 roasting and brewed according to your requirements in less than minutes. It searches the globe for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced, giving customers choice and quality.

The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology which is quite different from the drum-type machines commonly found in most UK coffee houses. The beans are blown about in an enclosed box heated by high-speed air that keeps the green beans in suspension and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was a rich cup with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate aroma was present and the coffee started to cool as you sip and subtle aromas of citrus fruit were evident.

The roasted coffee will be whisked into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines to be brewed according your specifications in under a minute. Customers can select from a selection of nine single origin choices and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop that had one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become an energizing roastery whose coffees are sold at top cafes, restaurants and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing top-quality beans from around the globe, each of which is a long, arduous journey before it reaches the hands of its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about coffee and believe that good coffee should be accessible to all," have created a space that is grounded and has chalkboards, compost bins and up-cycled products, and minimal decor.

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