Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

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

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller who specializes in international brews, loose teas, and a wide selection.

The scent of freshly roasting beans fills the air as you walk into this West Village shop. The shelves are packed with jars and sacks of dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories and sugar.

Porto Rico was first opened in 1907 Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an influx of Italian immigrants who established businesses to cater to their culinary requirements. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so renowned that at the time, even the Pope would drink it.

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

Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the business was raised on the top floor of the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to run the shop in a similar manner as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee roaster and shop is located on Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This neighborhood in Brooklyn's Bushwick district is located on Grattan Street. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders began roasting coffee in an apartment on the fourth floor, just around the corner, in 2011. They dubbed it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's reliance on micro-lots -- or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the acclaim of discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at peak ripeness, floated to eliminate any defects and then dried fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry lemongrass and melon.

Sey's commitment extends beyond its shop to improve the overall well-being of staff and growers, as well as customers. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables in order to keep waste from the landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases as well as nourish the soil. It also removes gratuities. This allows baristas to concentrate on their work and to earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee business that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They began with a small shop and a dedicated team. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a unique coffee experience has earned them a following that was not only in their hometown but all over the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, searching through hundreds of different lots every year to locate the ones that meet their standards. Then they roast them in a light style, dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more intense flavor and clarity.

The East Village store, which opened in October last year was praised for its top-quality pour-overs, as well as the baked goods that are overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel as well as other coffee houses.

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco modbar, and the cups and plates are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different varieties of coffee each year, and typically has seven or eight coffees available at any given time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

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

The on-site roaster employs fluid bed technology, which is quite different from traditional drum-type machines found in most UK bulk coffee beans houses. The beans are blown about in the heated box by high quality coffee beans-speed air that keeps the green beans suspended and allows them to be roasted at a consistent rate as they travel through the machine.

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

The roasted coffee is then transported to the store's Eversys brewing machines that are super-automatic and can be brewed to your specification in just a few minutes. Customers can choose from a selection of nine single origin choices and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, with a single group espresso machine. It has since evolved into a burgeoning coffee roastery, whose beans are sold in top rated coffee beans cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers all over the city. Parlor is committed to sourcing high-quality beans from across the globe, each of which is a long, arduous journey before getting into the hands of its roasters.

According to their own words the owners "have an unrelenting passion for craft and believe that good coffee should be available to anyone." They achieve that by creating a simple area on a residential street. Think compost bins, a chalkboard welcome, handmade up-cycled products and a simple deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, however they also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting area where you can smell and taste the beans in the ground. They are a mix of earthy and chocolate (one was similar to tomato!). It's a little off the beaten path, but it's worth the drive.