Five Brooklyn Coffee bean Company Bean Shops

If you're a lover of coffee and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to go to a coffee bean shop. These shops provide a variety of whole beans from around the globe. They also sell unique kitchenware and trinkets.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops sell them in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews and a variety of loose teas

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

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who set up businesses to meet their food requirements. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - - a drink that was so popular that even the Pope consumed it.

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

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

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster, is located along 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 started roasting coffee in an apartment on the coffee bean shop fourth floor just around the corner 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 buying micro-lots, or even whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the praise of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In the past they made a 6-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were picked at the peak of ripeness, and steamed to remove any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee bean near me with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall well-being of staff and farmers, and customers. It uses biodegradable disposables and composts to keep waste out of the landfill and converting it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity, which puts the baristas in a position to help sustain their livelihoods and encourage them to focus on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a dedicated team. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering a truly exceptional organic coffee beans experience has earned their acclaim not just in their hometown, but globally.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, scouring through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that are perfect for their tastes. They roast them lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more vibrant flavor and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek and minimalist design. It's been praised by international coffee lovers for its precise pour-overs and baked goods supervised by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco modbar and the cups and plates are custom-designed at Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, a father and son 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 usually has seven or eight varieties on offer at any time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant A multi-unit coffee retailer, roasts and brews its coffee on the spot. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your specifications in less than seconds. It is a search engine for the finest specialty beans that are directly sourced providing customers with choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster is a fluid bed machine which is different from the traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around in an enclosed box heated by high-speed air, which keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner throughout the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was 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 flavours.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and you can have your coffee brewed to your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can select from nine single origins as well as different blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, using a single espresso machine. It has since morphed into a bustling coffee roastery, whose beans are sold in top cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor is committed to procuring high-quality coffee beans from across the globe each of which has been through a long and difficult journey before getting into the hands of its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about coffee and believe that a good cup of coffee should be available to everyone," have created a environment that is simple and has chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled handmade products, and low-frills decor.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, but they also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Think of it as a tasting room for breweries. You can smell and taste the beans, from chocolatey to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). It's a little off the beaten track, but it's worth the drive.