Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur then you'll want to check out a coffee bean shop. These shops offer a broad selection of whole beans from all across the globe. They also sell unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee retailer specializing international brews and a variety of loose teas

As you enter this old-fashioned West Village shop, the scent of freshly roasting beans fills your nostrils. The shelves are packed with jars and sacks of dark brown beans, along with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increasing number of Italian immigrants who set up businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so renowned in the present, that even the Pope would drink it.

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

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up 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

Sey coffee beans bristol, a coffee shop and roaster is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This Brooklyn neighborhood, in the Bushwick district, is located on Grattan Street. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders, who are 33 years old, started roasting coffee in the loft on the fourth floor just across the street in the year 2011. The name was Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's focus on purchasing micro-lots, or even whole harvests from single farmers has earned it the praise of discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were harvested when they were ripe and then steamed to eliminate any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a most expensive coffee beans that is fragrant with hints of berry and melon.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall health of growers and staff, as well as its customers. It makes use of composts and biodegradable plastics to keep waste out of the landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, which places baristas in the position to sustain their livelihoods and encourage them to focus on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a dedicated staff. Their honest and innovative approach to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience earned them a following that was not only in their home town, but globally.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They scour through hundreds of beans each year to select the beans that best meet their ideals. They roast them lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This results in clearer and more vibrant taste.

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

The shop utilizes a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father and son studio located in Horsens. In a recent interview, Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees every day and typically has seven or eight coffees available at any given moment.

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 a second. It searches countries far and across the globe for the highest-quality, directly sourced specialty beans providing customers with choice and high-quality.

Their onsite roaster uses fluid bed technology that is a bit different to traditional drum-type machines found in the majority of UK bulk buy coffee beans houses. The beans are blown in an enclosed box that is heated and has high-speed and circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a consistent roasting rate.

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 sipped the coffee, you could detect subtle citrus fruit flavors.

The roasted coffee beans to buy is then transported to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and it is brewed to your requirements within less than a minute. Customers can pick from a variety of single origins and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop equipped with a single group espresso machine. It has since evolved into a burgeoning coffee roastery, with beans that can be found in great cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers in every city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the finest quality beans, which have been through a lengthy journey before arriving at its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about coffee and believe that a good cup of coffee should be available to everyone," have created a space that is down-to earth and has chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and a minimalist interior.

They light roast coffee beans and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six when I was there), but they also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Think of it as an artisanal tasting room in which you can smell and taste the ground beans, from chocolatey to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're off the beaten path and it's worth the trip.