Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops
If you are a coffee lover, you should visit a coffee shop. These shops provide a variety of whole beans from around the world. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other things.
Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell
coffee beans in bulk at their retail locations.
Porto Rico Importing Co.
Veteran coffee vendor who specializes in international brews, loose teas and a variety.
As you enter this quaint West Village shop, the aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air. Open sacks of dark-brown beans are stacked on the shelves along with jars of sugar, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.
Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses to meet their food needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so renowned in the present, that even the Pope would drink it.
Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including those from around the globe in three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution for 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 runs the shop in the same way as his grandfather and father.
Sey Coffee
Sey Coffee, a coffee roaster and shop is located on Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This Brooklyn neighborhood, in the Bushwick district, is located on Grattan Street. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33, started roasting in a fourth-floor loft across the street from their new location in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).
Sey's commitment to buying micro-lots or whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it 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 handpicked at their peak ripeness, removed by flotation to eliminate defects and then dried fermented for 36 hours prior to being dried on the farm. The result is a blend that has hints of berry and melon.
Sey's commitment to holistically improving the health of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, keeping waste out of landfills and converting it to substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This lets baristas concentrate on their work and help sustain their livelihoods.
La Cabra
La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They began with a small shop and a committed team. Their honest and innovative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience earned their acclaim not just in their home town however, but across the globe.
La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, by scouring through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that fit their ideals. They roast them lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more vibrant flavor and clarity.
The East Village store opened last October with a sleek, minimalist design, and has been praised by international coffee lovers for its precise pour-overs and baked goods supervised by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.
The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco modbar, and the plates and cups are designed by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, the son and father studio. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves about 250 different coffees a year, and usually has seven or eight coffees available at any given time.
The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee
The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts on-site and brews according to your preferences, with every cup of coffee being roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than minutes. It scour countries far and far to find the finest specialty beans that are directly sourced that provide customers with a choice and high-quality.
The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology that is quite different from the classic drum-type machines used in many UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around the heated box by high-speed air that keeps the green beans suspended and allows them to be roasted at a consistent rate throughout the machine.
I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with smooth mouthfeel,
dark roast coffee beans chocolate from the fragrance was present. The coffee began to cool as you sip the coffee. The subtle scents of citrus fruit were detected.
The roasted coffee will then be poured into the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines and brewed according to your specifications in under a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origin options and a wide range
types of coffee beans blends.
Parlor Coffee
Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, with a single espresso machine. It has since developed into a flourishing
coffee beans unroasted roastery, with beans that can be found in great cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers across the city. Parlor
amazon coffee beans is committed to finding the highest-quality beans, that have gone through a long journey before they reach its roasters.
According to their own words, they "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee should be accessible to everyone." They accomplish this by putting their home-like streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, chalkboards, handmade up-cycled products and a minimally-decorated space.
They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six when I was there) However, they also hold cuppings on Sundays, and are open to the public. Think of it as a brewery tasting room--you can smell and taste the ground beans, from chocolaty to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're away from the tourist trail however, they're it's worth the trip.