Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a fan of coffee and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to go to a coffee shop. They offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all over the world. They also have unique kitchenware and trinkets.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller who specialises in international brews loose teas and a selection.

When you step into this old-school West Village shop, the aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air. The shelves are filled with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, along with tea-making equipment, coffee 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 opened businesses to satisfy their food needs. Albanese named her shop after the renowned Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) which was that was so popular at the time that even the Pope drank it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including beans from all over the world, at 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, the current owner and president of the company was raised above his family's bakery located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to operate the shop in the same manner as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

It is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a roaster and Coffeee coffee shop. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders started roasting coffee in the loft on the fourth floor just across the street in the year 2011. The name was Lofted coffee bean company. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's preference for buying micro-lots, or even whole harvests, from single farmers has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. 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 the peak of ripeness, and then floated to eliminate any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup with hints of berry lemongrass and melon.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall well-being of staff and growers, and customers. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts, keeping waste out of garbage and converting it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts baristas in a position to provide their livelihoods and encourage them to focus on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty-coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a committed team. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience earned them a following not only in their hometown, but globally.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to find their perfect beans. They scour hundreds of varieties each year in order to find those that best meet their standards. They then roast them very lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees clearer and more vibrant taste.

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

The shop utilizes the La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates and bowls are made by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and-son studio located in Horsens. In a recent interview Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees a yea and has typically seven or eight varieties on offer at any given moment.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer which roasts on-site and brews to order, with each cup of coffee roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than an hour. It searches far and far to find the finest specialty coffee beans beans that are directly sourced providing customers with choice and high-quality.

Their roaster on site is a fluid bed device, which is different from the traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around a heated container by high-speed air, which keeps the green beans suspended and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was a rich cup with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate aroma was present, and the coffee began to cool while you sipped delicate citrus flavours fruit were detected.

The roasted coffee is then whisked to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and brewed to your specification in less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as various blends.

Parlor Coffee

Founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop equipped with a single-group espresso machine, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans are sold at top restaurants, cafes and home brewers across the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing top-quality beans from around the globe, each of which is a long, arduous journey before arriving in the hands of its roasters.

In their own words in their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a belief that good coffee should be available to anyone." They accomplish this with their earthy space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboard welcome, handmade up-cycled products and a minimalist deco.

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