Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops
If you're a fan of coffee, then you will want to try out a
barista coffee beans shop. These shops offer a broad variety of beans that are whole from all across the globe. They also have unique kitchenware and trinkets.
Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell coffee beans in bulk at their retail stores.
Porto Rico Importing Co.
Veteran
strong coffee beans shop that is a specialist in international brews, loose teas and a selection.
The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. Open bags of dark-brown beans line the shelves alongside jars of sugar coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories.
The first restaurant opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who established businesses to cater to their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican
organic coffee beans she imported (and sold) - - a drink that was so popular that even the Pope drank it.
Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including those from around the world at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. Porto Rico also roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.
Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in the same way like his father and grandfather.
Sey Coffee
Sey Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster located on Grattan Street, in Morgantown. The neighborhood, which is part of Brooklyn's Bushwick district is situated on Grattan Street. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders started roasting coffee in an apartment 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 decision to buy micro-lots, and even whole harvests from single farmers has earned it the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. Last year they made a 6-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were harvested at their peak ripeness and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup 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 customers. It makes use of biodegradable disposables and composts, keeping waste out of garbage and converting it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also removes gratuities. This lets baristas concentrate on their craft and to earn a living.
La Cabra
La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee business that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience has earned their acclaim not just in their own town but also around the world.
La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, going through hundreds of different varieties every year to locate the ones that match their ideals. They roast them lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This results in an enhanced taste and
Coffeebeans clarity.
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 and other coffee establishments.
The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father/son studio in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different coffees a year, and usually has seven or eight different varieties available at any given moment.
The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee
The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of
most expensive coffee beans which roasts on-site and brews to order with each cup of coffee roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than a minute. It searches far and far for the finest quality specialty beans, which are directly sourced providing customers with choice and quality.
The on-site roaster employs fluid bed technology, which is a bit different to the drum-type machines that are commonly used in many UK coffee houses. The beans are blown through a heated container with high-speed, circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a consistent roasting speed.
I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was incredibly rich and velvety with a rich and velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma. And as you sip the coffee you could smell subtle citrus fruit flavors.
The coffee is then be whisked into the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines and brewed according your preferences within less than a minute. Customers can select from nine single origin selections and a range of blends.
Parlor Coffee
Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single espresso machine. It has since morphed to become a burgeoning roastery, whose beans can be found in great cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to finding the highest quality beans that have all been through a long journey before they reach its roasters.
In their own words the owners "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee should be available to everyone." They achieve this with their earthy street space, which includes compost bins, chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled items, and low-frills deco.
They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, however they also hold cuppings on Sundays that are open to the general public. Imagine it as an artisanal tasting room in which you can smell and taste the ground beans, ranging from chocolaty earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). It's a bit away from the main roads, but worth the trip.
