Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops
If you are an avid coffee drinker, then you should go to a coffee shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from around the world. They also offer unique trinkets and kitchenware.
Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops offer coffee beans in bulk.
Porto Rico Importing Co.
Veteran coffee retailer specializing international brews as well as a range of loose teas
The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air as you walk into this West Village shop. The sacks of dark brown beans are displayed on the shelves alongside sugar jars, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.
Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing a surge of Italian immigrants, who set up businesses to meet their food needs. Albanese named her shop after the famous Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) the beverage was so popular that even the Pope consumed it.
Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including those from around the globe at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. The company also roasts its own beans and offers
wholesale coffee beans uk 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. He continues to operate the business in the same way to his father and grandfather.
Sey Coffee
It is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a coffee shop and roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders started roasting coffee in the loft on the fourth floor just around the corner, in the year 2011. They dubbed it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.
Sey's reliance on micro-lots -- or even whole harvests from a single farmer has been praised by the most discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at the peak of ripeness, then removed by flotation to eliminate defects, then dry fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup that is a little fruit and melon.
Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall well-being of staff and farmers, as well as its customers. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, keeping waste out of landfills and turning it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also does away with gratuity, a move that puts baristas into a position to sustain their livelihoods and inspire them to concentrate on their craft.
La Cabra
La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They began with a small shop and a dedicated staff. Their innovative and honest approach to providing an outstanding coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not only in their own town and across the globe.
La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, searching through hundreds of different varieties every year to find ones that fit their ideals. They roast them lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more intense flavor and clarity.
The East Village store, which was opened in October of last year was praised for its premium pour-overs as well as its baked goods that are overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel as well as other coffee houses.
The shop uses a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups, plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and son studio located in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees per day and has typically seven or eight different varieties available at any time.
The Roasting Plant Coffee
The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee roasts and brews coffee on-site. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than a second. It searches the world across the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans, which are directly sourced, offering customers choice and high-quality.
Their on-site roaster is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from the traditional drum machines that are used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in an enclosed box heated by high-speed air that keeps the green beans suspended and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner when they pass through the machine.
I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was incredibly rich and velvety with a smooth taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma, and as you sip the coffee you could detect subtle citrus fruit flavours.
The coffee that has been roasted is whisked to the Eversys super-automatic brewing systems and it is brewed to your requirements in just a few minutes. Customers can select from nine single origin selections and a range of blends.
Parlor Coffee
In 2012, the company was established in the back of a barbershop, complete with a single-group espresso machine, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans can be found in top cafes, restaurants and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor is dedicated to procuring high-
quality coffee beans from across the globe, each of which has endured a laborious journey before reaching the roasters.
In their own words the owners "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be accessible to anyone." They achieve that with their down-to-earth area on a residential street. Think compost bins, chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled products, and low-frills deco.
They
light roast coffee beans and make their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there) However, they also do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room, where you can taste and smell the beans that are ground. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). It's a little off the beaten track, but worth the trip.