Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a fan of coffee, then you will want to go to a coffee bean coffeee shop. These stores offer a wide range of whole beans from all across the globe. They also offer unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee retailer specializing international brews as well as a range of loose teas

The scent of freshly roasting beans fills the air as you enter this West Village coffeee shop near me. The shelves are stacked with jars and sacks of dark brown beans, along 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 experiencing an influx of Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses to satisfy their food needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so well-known that at the time, even the Pope would drink it.

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

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the business was raised on the top floor of his family's bakery located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the shop in the same way like his father 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. Co-founders Tobin Polk and espresso Lance Schnorenberg, both 33, started roasting in a fourth-floor loft around the corner 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 single farmers has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In the past they made a 6-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were hand-picked at their peak ripeness, floated to remove defects and then dried fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry melon and lemongrass.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the quality of life for staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the store. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts to keep waste out of the landfill and converting it into agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and feed the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, which puts baristas in a position to help sustain their livelihoods and inspire them to concentrate on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee business that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a committed team. Their honest and innovative approach to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience has earned them a following not only in their own town however, but across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, going through hundreds of different varieties every year to locate the ones that fit their ideals. They roast them in a very light manner before dialing them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This results in clearer and more vibrant taste.

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

The shop is equipped with the La Marzocco modbar, and the cups and plates are made by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, a father and son studio. In a recent interview, Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees a yea and typically has seven or eight coffees available at any time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee which roasts on-site and brews according to your preferences, with every cup of coffee being roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than minutes. It scour countries far and far for the finest quality specialty beans that are directly sourced that provide customers with a choice and high-quality.

Their on-site roaster is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from traditional drum machines found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown inside a heated box with high-velocity, circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was rich and velvety with a velvety flavor. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma, and as you sipped the coffee, you could detect subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The roasted coffee will be taken to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines to be brewed according your preferences in under a minute. Customers can select from nine single origin options and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop with a single-group espresso machine, Parlor Coffee has become an energizing roastery whose coffees are found at great cafes, restaurants and home brewers in the city. Parlor is committed to procuring high-quality coffee beans from across the globe Each one is a long, arduous journey before getting into the roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about coffee and believe that great coffee should be accessible to everyone," have created a place that is a bit more grounded with chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and minimal decor.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins. But they also have cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area--you can taste and smell the ground beans. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). It's a bit off the beaten track, but well worth the trip.