A New Trend In Coffee Bean Shop

Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover, you should go to a coffee shop. These shops sell a range of whole beans from around the globe. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Others sell them in bulk at their retail stores.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Coffeee  specializing in international brews as well as a range of loose teas

The scent of freshly roasting beans fills the air as you walk into this West Village shop. The shelves are stacked with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, along with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories, and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an large influx of Italian immigrants who had opened businesses to serve their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the renowned Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - - a drink that was that was so well-known at the time that even the Pope drank it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including those from around the world at 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 located on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the business in the same way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

It is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a roaster and coffee shop. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33, started 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 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, they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were picked at the peak of ripeness, and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, lemongrass and melon.

Sey's goal of holistically improving the quality of life for staff, growers and customers extends beyond the shop. It makes use of composts and biodegradable plastics to ensure that waste is kept out of landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also does away with gratuity, which puts baristas in a position to support their livelihoods as well as encourage them to focus on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a committed team. Their innovative and honest approach to providing an outstanding coffee experience has earned them a loyal following not only in their local area and across the globe.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to find their perfect beans. They scour hundreds of beans each year in order to find the ones that best fit their ideals. They roast them in a light style and dial them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees greater clarity and a more vibrant taste.

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

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco Modbar as well as the cups, plates and bowls are crafted by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and-son studio in Horsens. In a recent interview Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees a yea and usually has seven or eight varieties available at any given moment.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant, 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 wide for the highest-grade specialty beans, which are directly sourced providing customers with choice and quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology which is a bit different to the drum-type machines that are commonly used in the majority of UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around an enclosed box heated by high-speed air that keeps the beans suspended and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate when they pass through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was velvety and rich with a velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma, and as you sipped the coffee there were subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and brewed to your specification in under a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as different blends.

Parlor Coffee

It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop equipped with one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans are sold at top restaurants, cafes and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee 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 according to their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and believe 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, a chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled items, and a minimally-decorated space.

They roast and make their own blends and single-origins (there were six when I was there), but they also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Think of it like a tasting room for breweries. You can smell and taste the ground beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're a bit away from the main roads, but it's worth the trip.