Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a fan of coffee then you'll want to visit a coffee shop. These stores offer a wide assortment of whole beans from all over the world. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other products.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others offer the beans in bulk at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

As you enter this quaint West Village shop, the aroma of freshly roasted beans fills your nose. Open bags of dark-brown beans line the shelves alongside jars of sugar as well as coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

Porto Rico was first opened in 1907 Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an large influx of Italian immigrants who established 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 popular at the time that even the Pope drank it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico also roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, was raised in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He runs the business in the same manner as his grandfather and father.

Sey Coffee

It is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a cafe coffee beans and a roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders, who are 33 years old, started roasting coffee in an apartment on the fourth floor, just around the corner in 2011. They named it 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 respect of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. The last time Sey was in the market, he purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were harvested at the peak of ripeness, and then steamed to eliminate any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup that is fragrant with hints of melons and berries.

Sey's commitment extends beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of staff and growers, and customers. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts, keeping waste out of landfills and converting it to substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts baristas into a position to sustain their livelihoods and inspire them to concentrate on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee beans online company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. They began with a small shop and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a unique coffee experience earned their acclaim not just in their home town but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, searching through hundreds of different varieties a year to find the ones that fit their ideals. They then roast them very lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more intense flavor and clarity.

The East Village store, which opened in the month of October last year it has been praised for its top-quality pour-overs as well as its baked goods, overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and various coffee establishments.

The shop employs the La Marzocco modbar and the cups and plates are made by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. In a recent interview Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees per day and typically has seven or eight coffees available at any given time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee beans sale which roasts on-site and brews to order, with every cup of coffee roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than minutes. It searches countries far and across the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans, which are directly sourced that provide customers with a choice and high-quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology that is quite different from traditional drum-type machines found in the majority of UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around in a heated container by high-speed air which keeps the green beans in suspension and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner as they travel through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was rich and velvety with a smooth taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma. And as you sip the coffee, you could smell subtle citrus fruit aromas.

The coffee is then be transferred to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines to be brewed according your specifications in under a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origins as well as different 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 a burgeoning roastery whose beans are available at top restaurants, cafes and home brewers in the city. Parlor is committed to procuring high-quality coffee beans from all over the world Each one has endured a laborious journey before arriving in the hands of its roasters.

In their own words according to their own words, they "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a belief that good coffee should be accessible to everyone." They achieve this by putting their home-like space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled items, and a minimally-decorated space.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six when I was there) However, they also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Think of it as a brewery tasting room--you can smell and taste the ground beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're a bit away from the tourist trail but are is worth a visit.