17 Reasons To Not Beware Of Coffee Bean Shop

Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur You'll want to try out the coffee shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from around the globe. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others offer large quantities of coffee beans at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller who specialises in international brews loose teas and a selection.

When you enter this quaint West Village shop, the scent of freshly roasting beans fills your nostrils. The shelves are stacked with jars and bags of dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee 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 established businesses in order to meet their food requirements. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so popular in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, was raised in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to operate the shop in a similar way to 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. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 began roasting in a fourth-floor loft around the corner 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 decision to buy micro-lots, or even entire harvests, from single farmers has earned it the praise 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 picked when they were ripe and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend with hints of berry, lemongrass and melon.

Sey's focus on holistically improving the quality of life for employees, customers and growers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts, preventing waste from the landfill and converting it into agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, which puts baristas in a position to support their livelihoods and encourage them to focus on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a loyal following not only in their own town and across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous process to find their perfect beans, scouring through hundreds of different lots a year to find the ones that fit their ideals. Then, they roast them in a very light manner then dial the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more vibrant flavor and clarity.

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

The shop uses a La Marzocco Modbar, and the cups, plates and bowls are crafted 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 coffees available at any given time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant A multi-unit coffee retailer roasts and brews coffee on-site. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your specifications within less than seconds. It scour countries far and wide for the highest-grade, directly sourced specialty beans that provide customers with a choice and quality.

Their on-site roaster is a fluid bed machine, which is different from traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in the heated box by high-speed air, which keeps the beans suspended and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was very rich with a velvety mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were present. The coffee began to cool as you sip, subtle flavours of citrus fruit were evident.

The coffee that has been roasted is whisked to the Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and it is brewed to your requirements within less than a minute. Customers can select from nine single origins and various blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, using a single espresso machine. It has since grown into a burgeoning coffee roastery, whose beans are sold in top cafes, restaurants, and home brewers in every city. Parlor is committed to procuring high-quality coffee beans from around the globe each of which has endured a laborious journey before getting into the roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about craft and believe that good coffee bean suppliers should accessible to everyone," have created a space that is grounded with chalkboards, compost bins and up-cycled products, and low-frills decor.

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there) However, they also hold cuppings on Sundays, and are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room where you can taste and smell the beans that are ground. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). They're off the beaten path, but is worth a visit.