Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are an avid coffee drinker, you should visit a coffee shop. They offer a wide assortment of whole beans from all across the globe. They also sell unique kitchenware and trinkets.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee gift set retailer specializing international brews and a variety of loose teas

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

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

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

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

Sey Coffee

It is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey coffee bean shop is both a roaster and coffee shop. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 began roasting in a fourth-floor loft across the street 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 focus on buying micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from farmers who are one has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. Last year they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 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 after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend that is a little melons and berries.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the quality of life for staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the shop. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts, preventing waste from landfills and converting it to agents that lower harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity, which puts the baristas in a position to provide their livelihoods and inspire them to focus on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a committed team. Their open and creative approach to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience earned them a following not only in their own town but all over the world.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, going through hundreds of different varieties a year to find the ones that meet their standards. They then roast them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This results in a brighter taste and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek, minimalist style, and has been praised worldwide by coffee enthusiasts for its scrumptious pour-overs and baked goods, which are 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 plates and cups are designed by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different varieties of coffee each year, and usually has seven or eight coffees available at any given point.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant, a multi-unit retailer of coffee, roasts and brews the coffee on site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your specifications in less than seconds. It searches countries far and far to find the finest, directly sourced specialty beans providing customers with choice and high-quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology, which is a bit different to the classic drum-type machines used in many UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around a heated container by high-speed air that keeps the green beans in suspension and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner as they travel through the machine.

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

The coffee is whisked to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and you can have your coffee brewed to your specifications in under a minute. Customers can select from a selection of nine single origin choices and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

In 2012, the company was established in the back of a barbershop, Coffee Shop complete with one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become an energizing roastery whose coffees can be found in top restaurants, cafes and home brewers in the city. Parlor is committed to sourcing the highest-quality beans across the globe Each one has been through a long and difficult journey before it reaches the hands of its roasters.

In their own words according to their own words, they "have an unstoppable passion for craft and believe that good coffee should be available to anyone." They achieve this by putting their home-like street space, which includes compost bins, a chalkboard welcome, handmade up-cycled products and a minimalist deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins. However, they also hold cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room for breweries. You can smell and taste the beans, from chocolaty to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're off the beaten track and well worth a trip.