Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops
If you're a coffee lover and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to go to a coffee shop. These stores offer a wide range of whole beans from all over the world. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other products.
Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Some shops offer the beans in bulk.
Porto Rico Importing Co.
Veteran coffee seller that is a specialist in international brews, loose teas, and a variety.
The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air once you walk into this West Village shop. The shelves are packed with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, along with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories, and sugar.
strong coffee beans , originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing a surge of Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses to satisfy their food requirements. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - - a drink that was that was so popular at the time that even the Pope drank it.
Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.
Peter Longo, current owner and president, was raised in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. He still runs the business in the same way 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 33-year-old co-founders started roasting coffee in the loft 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 preference for micro-lots or even whole harvests from single farmers has been praised by highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year, 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 the peak of ripeness, then floated to eliminate any defects and then dried fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup that is a little berry and melon.
Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall health of staff and growers, as well as its customers. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts, keeping waste out of landfills and turning it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and feed the soil. It also reduces gratuity. This allows baristas to concentrate on their work and earn a living.
La Cabra
La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative method of providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not just in their own town, but worldwide.
La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They go through hundreds of beans each year in order to find beans that meet their standards. They roast them in a light manner before dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more vibrant taste and clarity.
The East Village store, which opened in the month of October last year and has been praised by critics for its top-quality pour-overs as well as its baked goods, overseen and managed by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and various coffee establishments.
The shop employs the La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates and bowls are crafted by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and son studio in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees a yea and typically has seven or eight different varieties available at any time.
The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee
The Roasting Plant A multi-unit retailer of coffee, roasts and brews coffee on site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your specifications in less than a second. It is a search engine for the highest quality specialty beans that are directly sourced, giving customers the option of 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 many UK coffee houses. The beans are blown through a heated box with high-velocity, circulating air. This keeps the beans suspended and ensures a consistent roasting speed.
I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was rich and velvety with a velvety flavor. Dark chocolate was evident in 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 brewing machines that are super-automatic and can be brewed to your specification within less than a minute. Customers can choose from a variety of single origins and a wide range of blends.
Parlor Coffee
Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop using a single espresso machine. It has since evolved into a burgeoning coffee roastery, with beans that can be found in great cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the highest-quality beans, that have all been through a long journey before reaching its roasters.
The owners, who self-described as "passionate about coffee and believe that great coffee should accessible to everyone," have created a place that is a bit more grounded and filled with chalkboards. There are compost bins, recycled handmade products, and low-frills decor.
They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins. However, they also have cuppings on Sundays that are accessible to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area--you can smell and taste the ground beans. They are a mix of earthy and chocolate (one was similar to tomato!). It's a bit away from the main roads, but worth the journey.