Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover You'll want to visit a coffee bean shop. These shops sell a range of whole beans from all over the globe. They also sell unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Some shops offer these in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews, loose teas and a selection.

When you enter this traditional West Village shop, the smell of fresh roasting beans fills the air. The shelves are lined with jars and bags of dark brown beans, with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increasing number of Italian immigrants who set up businesses to serve their culinary requirements. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so popular in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

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

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the company was raised over his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to run the business in the same way as his grandfather and father.

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. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders, who are 33 years old, started roasting coffee in the loft on the fourth floor just around the corner in 2011. The name was Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's focus on purchasing micro-lots, or even whole harvests from single farmers has earned it the praise of the most discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In 2011, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa region. The beans were harvested when they were ripe and then steamed to eliminate any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, melon and lemongrass.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall wellbeing of staff and growers, as well as its customers. It makes use of biodegradable disposables and composts, preventing waste from landfills and turning it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts the baristas in a position to support their livelihoods and encourage them to concentrate on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee brand, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a dedicated team. Their open and creative approach to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience has earned their acclaim not just in their own town, but globally.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They go through hundreds of beans each year in order to find those that best fit their ideals. They then roast them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees an enhanced taste and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October, with a minimalist and sleek design. It's 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 is equipped with a La Marzocco modbar, and the cups and plates are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees per day and usually has seven or eight varieties available at any one time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer which roasts on-site and brews on demand, with every cup of coffee being roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than a minute. It searches far and far for the finest quality specialty beans, which are directly sourced that offer customers a variety and high-quality.

The roaster they have on site is a fluid bed device, which is different from classic drum machines used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around a heated box by high-velocity air, which keeps the beans suspended and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner throughout the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was a rich cup with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate aroma was present and the coffee started to cool down as you sipped the coffee. The subtle scents of citrus fruit were detected.

The coffee is transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and brewed to your specification within less than a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origin selections and a wide range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffeee.Uk Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop equipped with a single group espresso machine. It has since morphed into a flourishing coffee roastery, with beans that are available in top cafes, restaurants, and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to finding the highest-quality beans, that have all undergone a long journey before arriving at its roasters.

According to their own words in their own words, they "have a relentless passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be accessible to anyone." They do just that with their down-to-earth street space, which includes compost bins, autogenmotors.com chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled products, and low-frills deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, however they also host cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the general public. Think of it like a tasting room for breweries. You can smell and taste the ground beans, from chocolaty to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten path however, they're worthwhile to visit.