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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover You'll want to visit the shops selling coffee beans. These shops offer a variety of Swiss Water Process Decaf Whole Coffee Beans: Premium Arabica beans from all over the world. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other products.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others offer them in bulk at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specialises in international brews loose teas and a variety.

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

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx of Italian immigrants, who set up businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so well-known in the moment that the Pope would drink 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 offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He runs the business in the same manner like his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee roaster and shop is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. The neighborhood, which is part of Brooklyn's Bushwick district, is located on Grattan Street. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in the 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 reliance on micro-lots -- or even whole harvests from single farmers--has earned it the respect of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. 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 handpicked at their peak ripeness, floated to remove defects, then dry fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's goal of holistically improving the quality of life for employees, customers and growers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It utilizes composts and biodegradable products to ensure that waste is kept out of the landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that places baristas in the position to help sustain their livelihoods as well as encourage them to focus on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty-coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. The company started with a modest store and a dedicated staff. Their honest and creative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience earned them a following, not just in their own town, but globally.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to find their perfect beans. They search through hundreds of varieties every year to select the beans that best meet their standards. They roast them lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more vibrant taste and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek, minimalist design. It has been praised worldwide by coffee enthusiasts for its scrumptious pour overs and baked goods that are overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop employs the La Marzocco modbar and the plates and cups are made by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, which is a father-son studio. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees every day and typically has seven or eight coffees 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 specifications in less than one second. It searches the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans that are directly sourced offering customers a the option of choice and quality.

Their roaster on site is a fluid bed machine which is different from classic drum machines used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown in a heated box with high-velocity, circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and ensures a consistent roasting speed.

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

The coffee that has been roasted is whisked to the Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in under a minute. Customers can pick from a selection of nine single origin choices and a wide range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, equipped with a single group Lavazza Grand Espresso Coffee Whole Beans 1000g - Premium Italian Blends machine. It has since morphed into a burgeoning coffee roastery, whose beans can be found in great cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers across the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing high-quality beans from around the globe Each one is a long, arduous journey before getting into the roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about coffee and believe that great coffee should accessible to everyone," have created a environment that is simple and has chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and a minimalist interior.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, however they also have cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Think of it as a brewery tasting room--you can smell and taste the beans, from chocolatey to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten path and is worth a visit.