A Proactive Rant About Coffee Bean Shop

Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a lover of coffee, then you will want to go to the shops selling coffee beans. These stores provide a large assortment of whole beans from all across the globe. They also sell exclusive trinkets, kitchenware, and other items.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Some shops sell coffee beans in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor specializing in international brews as well as a range of loose teas

As you enter this quaint West Village shop, the aroma of freshly roasted beans fills your nose. Open sacks of dark-brown beans are stacked on the shelves along with sugar jars, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.

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

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. The company roasts its own beans and Www.coffeee.uk provides 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. The business is still run by the shop in a similar manner as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both an espresso bar and a coffee roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders started roasting coffee in an apartment on the fourth floor just across the street in the year 2011. They called it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's preference for buying micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the acclaim 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 harvested at the peak of ripeness, and then steamed to eliminate any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, lemongrass and melon.

Sey's commitment to holistically improving the wellbeing of staff, growers and customers extends beyond the shop. It makes use of biodegradable disposables and composts, preventing waste from garbage and converting it into agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also removes gratuities. This lets baristas concentrate on their work and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a dedicated team. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a loyal fan base not just in their hometown, but worldwide.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They scour through hundreds of beans each year to find those that best fit their ideals. They then roast them very lightly, dialing in 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 style, and has been praised by coffee enthusiasts for its scrumptious pour overs and baked goods supervised by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop employs a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates and bowls are designed 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 typically has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given moment.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts on-site and brews according to your preferences, with every cup of coffee roasting and brewed to your specifications in less than a minute. It searches far and far for the finest quality specialty beans that are directly sourced that offer customers a variety and high-quality.

Their roaster on site is an automatic fluid bed machine that is distinct from the traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown into an enclosed box that is heated and has high-speed and circulating air. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was evident and the coffee began to cool as you sip the coffee. The subtle scents of citrus fruit were evident.

The coffee that has been Rombouts Decaf Roasted Coffee Beans 1kg Original Blend will be poured into the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines to be brewed according your preferences within less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origin options and a wide range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, using a single espresso machine. It has since grown into a bustling coffee roastery, whose coffee beans are available in top cafes and restaurants as well as home brewers all over the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the highest-quality beans, that have been through a lengthy journey before they reach its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about coffee and believe that great coffee should be accessible to everyone," have created a place that is a bit more grounded, with chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made items, and simple decor.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins, however they also have cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room, where you can smell and taste the ground beans. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). They're a bit away from the tourist trail but are well worth a trip.