Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur then you'll want to go to a coffee bean shop. These shops offer a variety of whole beans from all over the globe. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other products.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller that specialises in international brews loose teas, and a variety.

The scent of freshly roasting beans fills the air when you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are lined with jars and sacks of dark brown beans, with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories, and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing an influx of Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses to meet their dietary needs. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage so famous at the time that even the Pope took a sip.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including those from around the globe located in three locations including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. The company roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the company was raised above the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of 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 along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This neighborhood, located in Brooklyn's Bushwick district is situated on Grattan Street. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders, who are 33 years old, started roasting coffee in a loft on the fourth floor, just across the street, in the year 2011. The name was Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's preference for micro-lots or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the acclaim of discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The beans were harvested at the peak of ripeness, and steamed to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend that is a little melons and berries.

Sey's focus on holistically improving the wellbeing of growers, staff and customers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It utilizes composts and biodegradable disposables in order to ensure that waste is kept out of landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also reduces gratuity. This lets baristas concentrate on their craft and support their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small shop and a committed team. Their open and creative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience earned them a following that was not only in their own town, but globally.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They go through hundreds of varieties every year in order to find those that best meet their standards. Then, they roast them in a light manner, dialing them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more vibrant taste and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek, minimalist design. It has been praised by coffee lovers for its meticulous pour-overs and baked goods overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop uses the La Marzocco modbar and the cups and plates are made by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, which is a father-son studio. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different types of coffee per day and usually has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given moment.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts on-site and brews to order with each cup of coffee being roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than a minute. It scour the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans that are directly sourced offering customers a choices and high-quality.

Their roaster on site is an automatic fluid bed machine that is distinct from the classic drum machines used in UK coffee gift set shops. The beans are blown about in a heated container by high-speed air, which keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner when they pass through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was velvety and rich with a velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma and as you sipped the coffee, there were subtle citrus fruit aromas.

The roasted coffee will be transferred to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines to be brewed according your preferences in less than one minute. Customers can pick from a selection of nine single origin choices and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop that had an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans can be found in top restaurants, Coffee Bean Shop cafes and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to finding the highest quality beans that have all undergone a long journey before they reach its roasters.

According to their own words the owners "have an unstoppable passion for craft and believe that good coffee should be accessible to anyone." They do just this with their earthy streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, chalkboard welcome 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, however they also have cuppings on Sundays, which are accessible to the public. Imagine it as a tasting area--you can taste and smell the ground beans. They vary from earthy to chocolaty (one was almost like tomato!). It's a little off the beaten path but worth the journey.