Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a lover of coffee You'll want to visit a coffee bean shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from around the world. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other things.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others offer large quantities of 500g coffee beans beans at their retail stores.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews and a variety of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. Open sacks of dark-brown beans are stacked on the shelves along with sugar jars as well as coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

Porto Rico was first opened in 1907 Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increasing number of Italian immigrants who set up businesses to serve their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) the beverage was that was so well-known at the time that even the Pope took a sip.

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. The company also roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the company was raised on the top floor of the bakery of his family on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. The business is still run by the shop in a similar fashion as his father did and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

It is located on Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a cafe and a roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders of 33 years, began roasting coffee in the loft on the fourth floor, just across the street, in the year 2011. They dubbed it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's decision to buy micro-lots, or even whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the praise of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In 2011, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at peak ripeness and removed by flotation to eliminate defects, then dry fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup that is fragrant with hints of melons and berries.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall well-being of staff and farmers, and customers. It utilizes 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 eliminates gratuity, which puts baristas into a position to support their livelihoods as well as encourage them to concentrate on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small shop and a dedicated staff. Their innovative and honest approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a loyal following not just in their home town, but worldwide.

La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, going through hundreds of different lots a year to find the ones that match their ideals. They roast them light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees a brighter taste and clarity.

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

The shop utilizes a La Marzocco modbar, and the plates and cups are custom-designed at Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, a father and son studio. In a recent interview Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees every day and usually has seven or eight different varieties available at any time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts on-site and brews to order, with every cup of coffee roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than an hour. It searches the world for the highest-quality specialty beans that are sourced directly, giving customers choices and high-quality.

The roaster they have on site is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from traditional drum machines that are used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around the heated box by high-speed air which keeps the green beans in suspension and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner when they pass through the machine.

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

The coffee that has been roasted is transported to the store's Eversys brewing machines that are Premium Super Crema Espresso Kaffeebohnen 1kg Coffee-automatic and can be the coffee is brewed according to your preferences within less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins and different blends.

Parlor Coffee

In 2012, the company was established in the back of a barbershop, complete with one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans can be found in top cafes, restaurants and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor is committed to sourcing the highest-quality beans around the globe, each of which has been through a long and difficult journey before arriving in the roasters.

According to their own words in their own words, they "have an unstoppable passion for craft and believe that good coffee should be accessible to everyone." They do just that with their down-to-earth space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboards 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 that are accessible to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room where you can taste and smell the beans as they are roasted. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). They're away from the main roads and worthwhile to visit.