Five Brooklyn coffee beans to buy Bean Shops

If you're an avid coffee drinker, then you should visit a organic coffee beans shop. These shops sell a range of whole beans from around the world. They also sell unique kitchenware and trinkets.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air when you walk into this West Village shop. The sacks of dark brown beans line the shelves, along with sugar jars, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

Porto Rico was first opened in 1907 Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who set up businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican coffee beans bristol she imported (and sold) - a beverage that was so popular at the time that even the Pope consumed it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. The company roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the business was raised above the bakery of his family on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the shop 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 coffee shop and roaster. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33, started roasting in a fourth-floor loft just around the corner from their new shop in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the respect of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The beans were harvested at their peak of ripeness and then floated to eliminate 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 commitment extends beyond its shop to improve the overall health of staff and growers, as well as its customers. It uses composts and biodegradable disposables in order to keep waste from landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This allows baristas to concentrate on their craft and support their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee brand, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. The company started with a modest store and a dedicated staff. Their open and creative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience earned their acclaim not just in their own town, but globally.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, searching through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that meet their standards. They then roast them very lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more vibrant taste and clarity.

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

The shop utilizes a 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 a yea and usually has seven or eight coffees available at any given moment.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts its own coffee and brews to order with each cup of coffee roasting and brewed to your specifications in less than an hour. It searches the world for the highest-quality specialty beans that are sourced directly offering customers a choices and high-quality.

The roaster they have on site is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from The Coffee Bean Shop traditional drum machines that are used in UK coffee bean company shops. The decaf beans coffee are blown inside a heated box with high-velocity, circulating air. This keeps the beans suspended and ensures a consistent roasting speed.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was a rich cup with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was present, and the coffee began to cool while you sipped delicate citrus flavours fruit were detected.

The coffee that has been roasted will be poured into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines to be brewed according your preferences in under a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as different blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop, complete with an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans are sold at top restaurants, cafes and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to finding the highest quality beans that have all been through a long journey before they reach its roasters.

In their own words the owners "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee should be accessible to everyone." They achieve that by creating a simple space on a residential street--think compost bins, a chalkboard welcome hand-made up-cycled goods, 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 have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Imagine it as the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the ground beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're a bit away from the tourist trail however, they're well worth a trip.