Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a lover of coffee You'll want to visit the shops selling coffee beans. They offer a wide assortment of whole beans from all over the world. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other items.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Some shops sell them in large quantities.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor who concentrates on international brews, loose teas and a selection.

The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air when you walk into this West Village shop. Open bags of dark-brown beans line the shelves, along with sugar jars as well as coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increasing number of Italian immigrants who set up businesses to meet their culinary needs. 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 consumed it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

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

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's focus on buying micro-lots, or even entire harvests from single farmers has earned it the praise of New York City coffee enthusiasts. Last year, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were picked at their peak ripeness and then floated to eliminate any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup that is fragrant with hints of fruit and melon.

Sey's dedication extends beyond its shop to improve the overall health of staff and growers, as well as customers. It uses composts and biodegradable products to keep waste out of the landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts baristas into a position to help sustain their livelihoods and motivate them to concentrate 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 innovative and honest approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not just in their hometown and commercial across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, by scouring through hundreds of different varieties every year to locate the ones that are perfect for their tastes. Then they roast them in a very light style and dial them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This results in a brighter taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which was opened in October of last year, has been praised for its top-quality pour-overs and baked goods that are overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel, and other best coffee beans for espresso houses.

The shop uses a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and-son studio in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different types of coffees each year, and usually has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of allpress coffee beans that roasts its own coffee and brews according to your preferences, with every cup of jamaica blue coffee beans being roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than one minute. It scour countries far and far for the finest quality, directly sourced specialty beans that offer customers a variety and high-quality.

The roaster they have on site is a fluid bed machine which is different from traditional drum machines that are used in UK kopi luwak coffee beans shops. The beans are blown about in a heated box by high-velocity air which keeps the beans suspended and allows them to be roasted at a consistent rate when they pass through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee bean club and it was incredibly rich and velvety with a velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma and as you sipped the coffee, you could smell subtle citrus fruit aromas.

The coffee that has been roasted 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 nine single origin selections and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single group espresso machine. It has since morphed to become a burgeoning roastery, whose beans can be found in great cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers across the city. Parlor is committed to sourcing high-quality beans from around the globe, each of which has endured a laborious journey before arriving in the roasters.

According to their own words in their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and a belief that great coffee should be available to anyone." They accomplish that by creating a simple streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled products, and a minimally-decorated space.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, but they also host 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 is worth a visit.