Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to check out a coffee bean shop. These stores offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all across the globe. They also offer unique kitchenware and trinkets.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews as well as a range of loose teas

When you step into this old-fashioned West Village shop, the scent of freshly roasting beans fills the air. The shelves are stacked with jars and bags of dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories, and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an influx of Italian immigrants who opened businesses to serve their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the famous Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - - a drink that was that was so popular at the time that even the Pope drank it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including those from around the world located in three locations including Bleecker Street, coffee bean shop Essex Market, and online. The company roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, was raised in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. He continues to run the business in the same way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's decision to buy micro-lots or whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. Last year, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa region. The beans were harvested at their peak ripeness and floated to remove any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. 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 employees and growers as well as its customers. It uses biodegradable disposables and composts, preventing waste from landfills and turning it into agents that lower harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts baristas in a position to support their livelihoods and inspire them to focus on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee brand, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a team of dedicated employees. Their innovative and honest approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not just in their own town and across the globe.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They scour hundreds of beans each year in order to find those that best meet their standards. Then they roast them in a very light style before dialing them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more vibrant taste and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October, with a minimalist and sleek style, and has been praised by coffee lovers for its meticulous 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 employs a La Marzocco modbar and the plates and coffee bean shop cups are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, the son and father studio. In a recent interview Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different types of coffee per day and typically has seven or eight varieties available at any one time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee, roasts and brews coffee on-site. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than one second. It scour countries far and best Coffee far to find the finest, directly sourced specialty beans that offer customers a variety and high-quality.

The roaster they have on site is a fluid bed machine that is distinct from the traditional drum machines found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown inside a heated box with high-velocity, circulating air. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a consistent roasting rate.

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

The coffee is whisked to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing systems and it is brewed to your requirements in just a few minutes. Customers can choose from nine single origins and different blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop equipped with one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans are sold at top restaurants, cafes and home brewers in the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing high-quality beans from all over the world each of which has had to endure a lengthy journey before arriving in the hands of its roasters.

According to their own words the owners "have an unstoppable passion for craft and believe that good coffee should be available to everyone." They achieve this with their earthy area on a residential street. Think compost bins, chalkboards hand-made up-cycled goods, and a minimalist deco.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six on the menu when I was there) Also, they do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the ground beans, from chocolaty to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten path and is worth a visit.