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 the shops selling coffee beans. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from around the world. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other things.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller that specialises in international brews loose teas, and a wide selection.

As you enter this quaint West Village shop, the scent of freshly coffee beans fills your nostrils. The shelves are lined with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories and sugar.

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

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

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in a similar fashion as his father did and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's preference for micro-lots or even whole harvests from single farmers--has earned it the praise of knowledgeable 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, floated to remove defects, then dry fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee that is a little the melon and berry.

Sey's dedication extends beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of staff and farmers, and customers. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables in order to ensure that waste is kept out of the landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also does away with gratuity, a move that puts baristas into a position to help sustain their livelihoods and inspire them to focus on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a dedicated staff. Their innovative and honest approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not just in their hometown but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process to find their perfect beans, searching through hundreds of different varieties every year to locate the ones that match their ideals. They then roast them very lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more intense flavor and clarity.

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

The shop is equipped with the La Marzocco modbar, and the cups and plates are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, which is a father-son studio. In a recent interview Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different types of coffee per day and usually has seven or eight different varieties available at any one time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

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

The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology that is quite different from the classic drum-type machines used in many UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in the heated box by high-speed air which keeps the green beans suspended and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was very rich with a velvety mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was present. The coffee began to cool while you sipped, subtle flavours of citrus fruit were detected.

The roasted coffee will be taken to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines to be brewed according your specifications in less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as different blends.

Parlor coffee beans types

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, equipped with a single group espresso machine. It has since morphed into a bustling coffee roastery, with beans that are sold in top cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to sourcing the highest quality beans that have all been through a long journey before arriving at its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about coffee and believe that great coffee should be accessible to everyone," have created a environment that is simple, with chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and low-frills decor.

They roast and make their own blends and single-origins (there were six while I was there) However, they also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Think of it as an artisanal tasting room in which you can smell and taste the ground beans, ranging from chocolaty earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're away from the main roads however, they're is worth a visit.