Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops
If you're an avid coffee drinker, you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These shops offer a broad variety of beans that are whole from all over the world. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other products.
Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops offer these in large quantities.
Porto Rico Importing Co.
Veteran coffee shop that specialises in international brews loose teas and a selection.
The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air when you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are stacked with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, along with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories, and sugar.
The first restaurant opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses to satisfy their food requirements. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so renowned in the moment that the Pope would drink it.
Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including beans from all over the world located in 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, the current owner and president of the company, grew up above his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. The business is still run by the shop in the same manner as his father and grandfather.
Sey Coffee
Sey Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster is located on Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This neighborhood, located in Brooklyn's Bushwick district is situated on Grattan Street. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in a fourth-floor loft just 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 praise of knowledgeable New York City coffee aficionados. Last year they made a 6-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. decaf beans coffee were picked at the peak of ripeness, then removed by flotation to eliminate defects and then dried fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend that is a little melons and berries.
Sey's goal of holistically improving the quality of life for staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts to keep waste out of the landfill and converting it into agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts baristas in a position to help sustain their livelihoods and encourage them to concentrate on their art.
La Cabra
La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a dedicated staff. Their honest and creative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience earned them a following, not just in their home town, but globally.
La Carba follows a strict method to select their best beans. They go through hundreds of varieties each year in order to select the beans that best meet their standards. They roast them light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This results in an enhanced taste and clarity.
The East Village store, which was opened in October of last year, has been praised for its high-quality pour overs and baked goods, overseen and managed by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel, and other coffee houses.
The shop employs the La Marzocco modbar and the plates and cups are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, a father and son studio. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees per day and has typically seven or eight coffees available at any time.
The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee
The Roasting Plant A multi-unit retailer of coffee, roasts and brews its coffee on the spot. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than a second. It searches far and far to find the finest specialty beans that are directly sourced that provide customers with a choice and high-quality.
Their on-site roaster is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from classic drum machines used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around the heated box by high-speed air which keeps the green beans in suspension and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate as they travel through the machine.
I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was incredibly rich and velvety with a velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma. As you sipped the coffee, there were subtle citrus fruit flavours.
The roasted coffee will be taken to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines to be brewed according your preferences in less than one minute. Customers can pick from nine single origin selections and a range of blends.
Parlor Coffee
Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single group espresso machine. It has since grown to become a burgeoning roastery, and its beans are available in top cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers across the city. Parlor is committed to sourcing high-quality beans from across the globe each of which has endured a laborious journey before it reaches the roasters.
According to their own words in their own words, they "have a relentless passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be available to everyone." They accomplish that with their down-to-earth area on a residential street. Think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled items, and low-frills deco.
They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, but they also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the general 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 similar to tomato!). It's a little off the beaten path but worth the trip.