Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur then you'll want to check out a coffee bean shop. These stores provide a large selection of whole beans from all over the world. They also sell exclusive trinkets, kitchenware, and other products.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews as well as a range of loose teas

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

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

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, which includes beans from all over the world in three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. Porto Rico 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, grew up above the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He continues to run the shop in the same fashion as his father did and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

It is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a coffee shop and roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and coffee bean shop their co-founders of 33 years, 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 preference for buying micro-lots, or even whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. Last year they made a 6-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were picked when they were ripe and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend with hints of fruit and melon.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the health of growers, staff and customers extends beyond the retail store. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, keeping waste out of garbage and converting it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also prevents gratuities. This lets baristas focus on their craft and support their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty-coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a committed staff. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing a unique coffee experience has earned them a following not only in their hometown but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, going through hundreds of different varieties every year to find ones that fit their ideals. Then, they roast them in a light style then dial 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 the month of October last year was praised for its high-quality pour overs as well as its baked goods, overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and other coffee establishments.

The shop uses a La Marzocco Modbar as well as the cups, plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father/son studio in Horsens. In a recent Q&A with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different varieties of coffee each year, and usually has seven or eight varieties available at any given moment.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant 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 seconds. It searches the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans that are directly sourced to give customers the option of the option of choice and quality.

Their roaster on site is a fluid bed device, that is distinct from the traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown through an enclosed box that is heated and has high-speed air that is circulated. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a constant roasting speed.

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

The roasted coffee will be taken to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your specifications in under a minute. Customers can select from nine single origins as well as different blends.

Parlor Coffee

In 2012, the company was established in the back of a barbershop, complete with a single-group espresso machine, Parlor Coffee has become a rapidly growing roastery whose beans are available at top cafes, restaurants and home brewers across the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing the highest-quality beans around the globe Each one has been through a long and difficult journey before it reaches the hands of its roasters.

In their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and a conviction that good coffee should be available to everyone." They do just that with their down-to-earth street space, which includes compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled products, coffee bean shop and a simple deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, but they also hold cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting area where you can smell and taste the beans that are ground. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). They're off the beaten track, but it's worth the trip.