It's The Next Big Thing In Coffee Bean Shop

Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover then you'll want to check out a coffee bean shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from all over the world. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other items.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell large quantities of coffee beans at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

As you enter this old-fashioned West Village shop, the aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air. The shelves are filled with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, along with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories, and sugar.

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

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

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the company was raised over the bakery of his family on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to run the shop in a similar fashion as his father did and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's commitment to buying micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from farmers who are one has earned it the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. The last time Sey was in the market, he purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The beans were picked at peak ripeness and removed by flotation to eliminate defects, then dry fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup that is fragrant with hints of berry and melon.

Sey's focus on holistically improving the wellbeing of employees, customers and growers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It uses biodegradable disposables and composts, keeping waste out of garbage and converting it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also removes gratuities. This allows baristas to concentrate on their work and to earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee brand, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a committed team. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience earned them a following not only in their home town but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, searching through hundreds of different lots every year to locate the ones that fit their ideals. They roast them in a very light style before dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees a brighter taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which was opened in October of last year, has been praised for its excellent pour overs as well as its baked goods, overseen and managed by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel, and other coffee houses.

The shop employs a La Marzocco modbar and the plates and cups are made by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, the son and father studio. In a recent Q&A with Atlanta premium coffee beans Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different types of coffees each year, and typically has seven or eight coffees available at any given time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee, roasts and brews coffee on-site. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than one second. It scour the globe for the highest quality specialty beans that are sourced directly to give customers the option of the choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown into a heated box with high quality coffee beans-velocity air that is circulated. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a constant roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with an enveloping mouthfeel, dark chocolate aroma was present and the coffee started to cool down as you sipped the coffee. The subtle scents of citrus fruit were detected.

The roasted coffee will be whisked into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines and brewed according to your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can choose from a variety of single origins and a variety of blends.

Parlor coffee beans sale (www.Tadalive.com)

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop with a single-group espresso machine, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans can be found in top restaurants, cafes and home brewers in the city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the highest-quality beans, that have gone through a long journey before they reach its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about their craft and believe that a good cup of coffee should accessible to everyone," have created a environment that is simple, with chalkboards, compost bins and up-cycled products, and a minimalist interior.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins. However, they also hold cuppings on Sundays, which are accessible to the public. Think of it like an artisanal tasting room in which you can smell and taste the beans, from chocolatey to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). It's a bit off the beaten track, but it's worth the drive.