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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are a premium coffee beans lover, you must visit a coffee shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from around the globe. They also have unique kitchenware and trinkets.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

When you step into this quaint West Village shop, the smell of fresh roasting beans fills your nostrils. The shelves are packed with jars and bags of dark brown beans, with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories, and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx of Italian immigrants, who opened businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so well-known that at the time, even the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including beans from all over the world located in three locations including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. The company roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, was raised in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He still runs 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 cafe and a roaster. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33, started roasting in a fourth-floor loft around the corner from their new store in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's decision to buy micro-lots, or even entire 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 handpicked at the peak of ripeness, then removed by flotation to eliminate defects, then dry fermented for 36 hours prior to being dried on the farm. The result is a blend with hints of berry, lemongrass and melon.

Sey's commitment extends beyond its shop to improve the overall health of staff and growers, as well as its customers. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables in order to keep waste from landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also nourish the soil. It also reduces gratuity. This allows baristas to concentrate on their craft and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty-coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not only in their hometown but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, going through hundreds of different lots every year to find ones that match their ideals. They roast them in a very light style and dial the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees clearer and more vibrant taste.

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

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco modbar and the plates and cups are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, the son and father studio. 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 coffees available at any given time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts its own coffee and brews to order with each cup of coffee roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than one minute. It scour the globe for the highest quality specialty beans that are directly sourced offering customers a choices and high-quality.

Their roaster on site is a fluid bed machine which is different from traditional drum machines found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown inside the heated box using high-speed air that is circulated. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran gourmet coffee beans and it was rich and velvety with a rich and velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma. And as you sip the coffee there were subtle citrus fruit flavors.

The coffee is transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and you can have your coffee Beans wholesale suppliers brewed to your specifications in just a few minutes. Customers can pick from a variety of single origins and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop with an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans can be found in top cafes, restaurants and home brewers across the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing the highest-good quality coffee beans beans all over the world, each of which is a long, arduous journey before it reaches the 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 anyone." They achieve this with their earthy space on a residential street--think compost bins, a chalkboard welcome, handmade up-cycled products and low-frills deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins. However, they also hold cuppings on Sundays, which are accessible to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room, where you can smell and taste the ground beans. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). They're a bit off the beaten path but are it's worth the trip.