The 10 Most Terrifying Things About Coffee Bean Shop

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 bean shop. These stores provide a large variety of beans that are whole from all across the globe. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

The scent of freshly roasted beans fills the air as you enter this West Village shop. Open bags of dark-brown beans are displayed on the shelves alongside sugar jars, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

Porto Rico was first opened in 1907 Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx of Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses to cater to their food needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so renowned at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, which includes those from around the world, at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico also roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the business was raised over the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He continues to operate the shop in the same way to his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

It is located on Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a coffee shop and roaster. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 began roasting in a fourth-floor loft around the corner from their new store in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's preference for micro-lots or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the acclaim of knowledgeable New York City coffee aficionados. In the past they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were picked when they were ripe and steamed to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup with hints of berry, melon and lemongrass.

Sey's focus on holistically improving the quality of life for staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the store. It uses biodegradable disposables and composts, keeping waste out of landfills and turning it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also prevents gratuities. This lets baristas focus on their craft and help sustain their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a dedicated team. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a loyal following not just in their hometown and across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, searching through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that are perfect for their tastes. Then they roast them in a light style then dial the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees clearer and more vibrant taste.

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

The shop employs a La Marzocco modbar, and the cups and plates are custom-designed at Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. In a recent Q&A session with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves about 250 different coffees per year, and usually has seven or eight different varieties available at any given moment.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant, a multi-unit coffee beans manchester retailer, roasts and brews the coffee on site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your specifications in less than a second. It searches countries far and far for the finest quality specialty beans that are directly sourced, offering customers choice and high-quality.

The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology, which is quite different from the classic drum-type machines used in most UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around a heated box by high-velocity air which keeps the beans suspended and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with velvety mouthfeel. Dark chocolate scent was present. The coffee began to cool as you sip and subtle aromas of citrus fruit were detected.

The coffee is then be poured into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines and brewed according to your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins and several blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single group espresso machine. It has since evolved into a bustling coffee roastery, whose coffee beans can be found in great cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers in every city. Parlor Coffee is committed to sourcing the highest-quality beans, which have gone through a long journey before arriving at its roasters.

In their own words the owners "have a relentless passion for craft and a belief that good coffee should be accessible to anyone." They achieve this by putting their home-like street space, which includes compost bins, chalkboards, handmade up-cycled products and a minimally-decorated space.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins. But they also host cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Imagine it as a 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!). They're a bit off the beaten track and is worth a visit.