Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are an avid coffee drinker, then you should visit a coffee shop. These stores provide a large selection of whole beans from all over the world. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other products.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews and a variety of loose teas

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

Porto Rico was first opened in 1907 Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who had opened businesses to cater to their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the famous Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage that was so popular at the time that even the Pope took a sip.

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

Peter Longo, current owner and president, was raised in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the shop in the same way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from single farmers--has earned it the acclaim of knowledgeable New York City coffee aficionados. The last time Sey was in the market, he purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were picked at peak ripeness and floated to eliminate any defects and then dried fermented for 36 hours prior to being dried on the farm. The result is a blend with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's dedication extends beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of growers and staff, as well as customers. It uses composts and biodegradable products to ensure that waste is kept out of the garbage dumps. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also removes gratuities. This lets baristas focus on their craft and help sustain their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a dedicated staff. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not just in their home town but all over the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, going through hundreds of different varieties every year to locate the ones that are perfect for their tastes. They then roast them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a greater clarity and a more vibrant taste.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek and minimalist style, and 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 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 Q&A 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 point.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee, roasts and brews its coffee on the spot. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your preferences in less than an hour. It is a search engine for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced, giving customers the option of choice and quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology that is a bit different to the drum-type machines commonly found in most UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in the heated box by high-speed air that keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows them to be roasted at a consistent rate as they travel through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran unroasted coffee beans wholesale and it was rich and velvety with a velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma. And as you sip the coffee you could smell subtle citrus fruit aromas.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing systems and it is brewed to your requirements in less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as several blends.

Parlor Coffee

In 2012, the company was established in the back of a barbershop, complete with an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a rapidly growing roastery whose beans are sold at top restaurants, cafes and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to finding the highest-quality beans, which have all been through a long journey before reaching its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about craft and believe that good coffee should be available to everyone," have created a space that is grounded, with chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled handmade 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 accessible to the public. Think of it as a brewery tasting room--you can smell and taste the ground beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're a bit away from the main roads but are it's worth the trip.