Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a lover of coffee, then you will want to try out a coffee bean shop. These shops offer a variety of whole beans from all over the globe. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware and other items.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others offer coffee beans in bulk at their retail stores.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

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

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing a surge of Italian immigrants, who established businesses to cater to their dietary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous 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 kinds of beans, including those from around the world, at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. Porto Rico roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. He continues to run the business in the same way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee roaster and shop is located on Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This neighborhood in Brooklyn's Bushwick district is situated on Grattan Street. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in a fourth-floor loft around the corner from their new store 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 whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the acclaim of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In the past, Sey bought 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 then floated to eliminate any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee that has hints of berry and melon.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of staff and growers, as well as customers. It utilizes composts and biodegradable plastics to ensure that waste is kept out of the landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also removes gratuities. This lets baristas concentrate on their craft and to earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They began with a small shop and a committed team. Their innovative and honest approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a loyal following, not just in their local area and across the globe.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to find their perfect beans. They go through hundreds of beans each year to select the beans that best fit their ideals. Then they roast them in a very light style before dialing the roast to create their desired flavor coffee bean shop profile. This gives the coffees a more vibrant taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which opened in October last year it has been praised for its top-quality pour-overs as well as its baked goods, overseen and managed by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel as well as other coffee establishments.

The shop is equipped with the La Marzocco modbar, and the cups and plates are designed by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, a father and son studio. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee coffeee shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different varieties of coffee each year, and usually has seven or eight different varieties available at any given moment.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts its own coffee and brews on demand, with every cup of coffee roasting and brewed to your specifications in less than one minute. It scour the globe for the highest quality specialty beans that are directly sourced, giving customers the option of choice and quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology, which is quite different from the classic drum-type machines used in the majority of UK coffee shops. The beans are blown in a heated container with high-speed air, which is circulated. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a constant roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was a rich cup with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate from the fragrance was present, and the coffee began to cool as you sip, subtle flavours of citrus fruit were evident.

The roasted coffee will be transferred to the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your specifications in less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origin options and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop using a single espresso machine. It has since evolved to become a burgeoning roastery, and its beans can be found in a variety of great cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to finding the highest-quality beans, that have gone through a long journey before reaching its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about craft and believe that a good cup of coffee should be available to everyone," have created a space that is down-to earth and filled with chalkboards. There are compost bins, up-cycled hand-made items, and simple decor.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, however they also host cuppings on Sundays that are accessible to the public. Imagine it as an artisanal tasting room in which you can smell and taste the beans, from chocolatey to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten track but are it's worth the trip.