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Coffee Bean Shop: It's Not As Difficult As You Think
Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a fan of coffee and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to check out a coffee shop. These shops sell a range of whole beans from around the globe. They also offer unique kitchenware and trinkets.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. coffee beans to buy offer the beans in large quantities.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor who is a specialist in international brews, loose teas and a selection.

When you step into this quaint West Village shop, the scent of freshly roasted beans fills your nose. Open sacks of dark-brown beans line the shelves, along with jars of sugar coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories.

Originally 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 the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so popular that at the time, even the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including beans from all over the world at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. Porto Rico also roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the shop in the same manner as his grandfather and father.

Sey Coffee

It is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a cafe and a roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders started roasting coffee in the loft 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 or whole harvests, from farmers who are one has earned it the praise of New York City coffee enthusiasts. Last year, they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at their peak ripeness, floated to remove defects and then dried fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend that has hints of fruit and melon.

Sey's commitment to holistically improving the well-being of staff, growers and customers extends beyond the shop. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts to keep waste out of landfills and converting it to agents that lower harmful greenhouse gas emissions and feed the soil. It also prevents gratuities. This lets baristas focus on their craft and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee brand, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and creative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a following that was not only in their own town, but globally.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, scouring through hundreds of different lots each year to identify the ones that match their ideals. They roast them lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees a brighter taste and clarity.

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

The shop employs the La Marzocco modbar, and the plates and cups are custom-designed at Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, a father and son studio. In a recent interview, Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees a yea and typically has seven or eight varieties on offer at any time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts on-site and brews to order with each cup of coffee being roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than a minute. It searches far and wide for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced providing customers with choice and quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology which is quite different from the classic drum-type machines used in the majority of UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around an enclosed box heated by high-speed air, which keeps the green 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 incredibly rich and velvety with a velvety flavor. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma and as you sipped the coffee, there were subtle citrus fruit flavors.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in just a few minutes. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as different blends.


Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop, complete with one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become an energizing roastery whose coffees are sold at top restaurants, cafes and home brewers in the city. Parlor is dedicated to procuring high-quality coffee beans from around the globe each of which is a long, arduous journey before arriving in the hands of its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about craft and believe that good coffee should be accessible to everyone," have created a space that is down-to earth and has chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and low-frills decor.

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there) They also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room where you can smell and taste the beans as they are roasted. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). They're away from the tourist trail, but worthwhile to visit.