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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a fan of coffee then you'll want to check out a coffee bean shop. These shops provide a variety of whole beans from all over the world. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other products.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews and a selection of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air when you enter this West Village shop. Unopened bags of dark brown beans line the shelves, along with jars of sugar as well as coffee-making equipment and 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 opened businesses to cater to their dietary needs. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage so famous at the time that even the Pope drank it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico also roasts their 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 continues to run the shop in the same manner as his grandfather and father.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's commitment to buying micro-lots, or even entire harvests, from single farmers has earned it the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In 2011, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at peak ripeness and floated to get rid of any imperfections and dried fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's commitment to holistically improving the wellbeing of employees, customers and growers extends beyond the shop. It makes use of biodegradable disposables and composts, keeping waste out of the landfill and converting it into agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil.  barista coffee beans coffeee.uk  removes gratuities. This lets baristas focus on their craft and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company started with a modest store and a dedicated staff. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing an exceptional coffee experience earned them a following not only in their own town but all over the world.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They scour hundreds of varieties every year to find those that best match their ideals. Then they roast them in a light style, dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees more clarity and a better taste.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek and minimalist design, and has been praised by global coffee aficionados for its exacting pour overs and baked goods, which are overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop uses a La Marzocco Modbar as well as the cups, plates and bowls are made by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and son studio located in Horsens. In a recent interview Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees per day and has typically seven or eight coffees available at any given moment.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts its own coffee and brews according to your preferences, with each cup of coffee roasting and brewed to your specifications in less than a minute. It searches the world far for the finest quality specialty beans that are directly sourced, offering customers choice and high-quality.

Their onsite roaster uses fluid bed technology which is quite different from traditional drum-type machines found in many UK coffee shops. The beans are blown into the heated box using high-speed air that is circulated. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a consistent roasting speed.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was present. The coffee began to cool as you sip and subtle aromas of citrus fruit were detected.

The roasted coffee is then whisked to the Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and brewed to your specification in less than a minute. Customers can select from nine single origins as well as several blends.

Parlor Coffee

Founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop, complete with one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become an energizing roastery whose coffees can be found in top restaurants, cafes and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to sourcing the finest quality beans, which have been through a lengthy journey before arriving at its roasters.

In their own words according to their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and a belief that great coffee should be accessible to anyone." They achieve this by putting their home-like space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled items, and low-frills deco.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six at the time I was there), but they also do cuppings Sundays, which are open 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!). It's a bit off the beaten path but it's worth the drive.