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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops
If you're a coffee lover and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to go to a coffee bean shop. They offer a wide assortment of whole beans from all across the globe. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other items.
Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops offer these in large quantities.
Porto Rico Importing Co.
Veteran coffee seller who specialises in international brews loose teas and a selection.
The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air as you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are stacked with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, along with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories, and sugar.
Coffeee , originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing an influx of Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses in order to meet their food needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous 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 around the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.
Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the company, grew up above his family's bakery located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to operate the shop in the same manner as his father and grandfather.
Sey Coffee
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 began roasting in a fourth-floor loft around the corner 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 purchasing micro-lots, or even whole harvests from a single farmer has been praised by knowledgeable New York City coffee aficionados. The last time Sey was in the market, he purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were picked at the peak of ripeness, and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend that is a little the melon and berry.
Sey's commitment to holistically improving the well-being of staff, growers and customers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It makes use of composts and biodegradable products to keep waste out of landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This lets baristas focus on their craft and support their livelihoods.
La Cabra
La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a team of dedicated employees. Their innovative and honest approach to providing an outstanding coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not just in their local area but also around the world.
La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, by scouring through hundreds of different varieties a year to find the ones that fit their ideals. Then, they roast them in a very light manner, dialing them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This results in more clarity and a better taste.
The East Village store, which opened in the month of October last year and has been praised by critics for its premium pour-overs and baked goods, which are overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel as well as other coffee establishments.
The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco modbar and the plates and cups are custom-designed at Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, which is a father-son studio. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different coffees per year, and usually has seven or eight different varieties available at any given time.
The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee
The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer which roasts on-site and brews according to your preferences, with every cup of coffee being roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than minutes. It is a search engine for the highest-quality specialty beans that are sourced directly providing customers with choice and quality.
Their onsite roaster is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from traditional drum machines that are used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in the heated box by high-speed air, which keeps the beans suspended and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner as they travel through the machine.
I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was smooth and rich with a velvety flavor. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma, and as you sip the coffee you could smell subtle citrus fruit aromas.
The roasted coffee will then be taken to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines and brewed according your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origin options and a variety of blends.
Parlor Coffee
It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop that had an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans are available at top restaurants, cafes and home brewers in the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing top-quality beans from all over the world Each one has been through a long and difficult journey before it reaches the hands of its roasters.
In their own words according to their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be accessible to everyone." They do just that by creating a simple space on a residential street--think compost bins, a chalkboard welcome hand-made up-cycled goods, and a simple deco.
They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, but they also hold cuppings on Sundays, which are accessible to the public. Imagine it as a tasting area where you can taste and smell the beans as they are roasted. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). They're off the beaten track however, they're well worth a trip.