Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a fan of coffee You'll want to go to a coffee bean shop. These stores offer a wide assortment of whole beans from all over the world. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some coffeee Shops offer these in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller who is a specialist in international brews, loose teas and a variety.

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

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who opened businesses to meet their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the renowned Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) the beverage was that was so well-known at the time that even the Pope was a fan.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including beans from all over the world at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. Porto Rico roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, Coffeee Shops the current president and owner of the company was raised above his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the shop in the same way 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 coffee shop. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 began roasting in a fourth-floor loft across the street 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 reliance on micro-lots -- or even whole harvests from a single farmer has earned it the praise of discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In the past they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were picked at peak ripeness and floated to get rid of any imperfections and then dried fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry melon and lemongrass.

Sey's goal of holistically improving the well-being of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the store. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables to ensure that waste is kept out of the garbage dumps. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This allows baristas to concentrate on their work 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 dedicated team. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience earned them a following not only in their home town but all over the world.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They scour hundreds of beans each year to find the ones that best match their ideals. Then they roast them in a very light manner then dial the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees more clarity and a better taste.

The East Village store opened last October, with a minimalist and sleek style, and has been praised by international coffee lovers for its meticulous pour overs and baked goods that are overseen 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 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 available at any one time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee gift which roasts on-site and brews on demand, with every cup of coffee roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than one minute. It is a search engine for the finest specialty beans that are directly sourced offering customers a the option of choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster uses fluid bed technology that is quite different from traditional drum-type machines found in many UK coffee shops. The beans are blown into an enclosed box that is heated and has high-speed air that is circulated. This keeps the beans in suspension and ensures a consistent roasting rate.

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

The coffee is then be poured into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your specifications in less than a minute. Customers can pick from a selection of nine single origin choices and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop equipped with an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become an energizing roastery whose coffees are sold at top cafes, restaurants and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the finest quality beans, which have all been through a long journey before arriving at its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about craft and believe that great coffee should accessible to everyone," have created a space that is down-to earth and has chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and a minimalist interior.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six at the time I was there), but they also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Imagine it as the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). It's a little off the beaten path, but well worth the trip.