Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover, then you will want to visit a coffee bean shop. These stores provide a large selection of whole beans from all over the world. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other things.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops offer coffee beans in large quantities.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

When you enter this traditional West Village shop, the aroma of freshly roasted beans fills your nose. The shelves are filled with jars, sacks and dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing a surge of Italian immigrants, who set up businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the famous Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage that was so well-known 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 also roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

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

Sey Coffee

Sey coffee gift, a coffee roaster and shop, is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This neighborhood, located in Brooklyn's Bushwick district, is located on Grattan Street. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in a fourth-floor loft located across the street from their new location in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's commitment to buying micro-lots, or even entire harvests, from farmers who are one has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In the past they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were harvested at their peak ripeness and then floated to eliminate 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 to holistically improving the health of employees, customers and growers extends beyond the shop. It makes use of biodegradable disposables and composts, keeping waste out of landfills and converting it to agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also does away with gratuity, a move that puts the baristas in a position to provide their livelihoods and motivate them to focus on their profession.

La Cabra

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

La Carba has a rigorous process to find their perfect beans, scouring through hundreds of different varieties every year to locate the ones that meet their standards. They then roast them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees more clarity and a better taste.

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

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates and bowls are crafted by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and son studio in Horsens. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different coffees per year, and usually has seven or eight coffees available at any given point.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant, a multi-unit coffee retailer, roasts and brews the coffee on site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your preferences in less than seconds. It searches the world for Coffee Bean Shop the highest-quality specialty beans that are directly sourced providing customers with choice and quality.

The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology, which is quite different from traditional drum-type of coffee machines found in many UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around in an enclosed box heated by high-speed air, which keeps the green beans suspended and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner throughout the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with a velvety mouthfeel, dark chocolate from the fragrance was present and the coffee started to cool down as you sipped, subtle flavours of citrus fruit were detected.

The coffee that has been roasted will be taken to the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines and brewed according to your preferences in under a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins and a variety blends.

Parlor Coffee

It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop equipped with an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become an energizing roastery whose coffees are available at top cafes, restaurants and home brewers in the city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the finest quality beans, which have all been through a long journey before reaching its roasters.

In their own words in their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and a belief that good coffee should be available 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 simple deco.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six on the menu when I was there) They also do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room, where you can taste and smell the beans in the ground. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). It's a bit off the beaten path but worth the trip.