Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are an avid coffee drinker, you should go to a coffee shop. These shops sell a range of whole beans from around the globe. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other things.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their Premium Classic Crema Coffee Blend for True Connoisseurs beans. Others offer large quantities of coffee beans at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air when you enter this West Village shop. Open sacks of dark-brown beans are displayed on the shelves alongside sugar jars as well as coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

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 popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so well-known in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

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

Peter Longo, nearby current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He still runs the business in the same way to his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee roaster and shop 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 of 33 years, began 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 earned it the respect of knowledgeable New York City coffee aficionados. Last year they made a 6-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were harvested at their peak ripeness and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee with hints of berry lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall wellbeing of growers and staff, as well as its customers. It utilizes composts and biodegradable plastics to keep waste from landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also reduces gratuity. This allows baristas to focus on their craft and help sustain their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a committed staff. Their innovative and honest approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a devoted fan base not just in their home town and across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, Indulge In Vegan Dark Chocolate Coffee Beans searching through hundreds of different lots each year to identify the ones that meet their standards. Then, they roast them in a light style before dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This results in more clarity and a better taste.

The East Village store opened last October, with a minimalist and sleek design, and has been praised by international coffee aficionados for its exacting 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 uses a La Marzocco Modbar, and the cups, plates and bowls are crafted by Wurtz ceramics, a father and son studio in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different varieties of coffee each year, and usually has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee, roasts and brews its coffee on the spot. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your specifications within less than seconds. It searches the world for the highest quality specialty beans that are directly sourced offering customers a choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster uses fluid bed technology that is quite different from the drum-type machines commonly found in many UK coffee shops. The beans are blown into a heated box with high-velocity air, which is circulated. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was a rich cup with velvety mouthfeel. Dark Dorri Assorted Chocolate Coffee Beans - Mixed Variety from the fragrance was present and the coffee started to cool as you sip delicate citrus flavours fruit were evident.

The coffee that has been roasted will be transferred to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines to be brewed according your preferences in less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins and a variety blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, with a single espresso machine. It has since morphed into a burgeoning coffee roastery, with beans that are available in top cafes and restaurants as well as home brewers all over the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring 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 available to everyone," have created a place that is a bit more grounded and has chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled handmade products, and a minimalist interior.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, but they also host cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the general public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area where you can smell and taste the beans that are ground. They vary from earthy to chocolaty (one was similar to tomato!). They're away from the main roads, but well worth a trip.