Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

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

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

The scent of freshly roasted beans fills the air as you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are packed with jars, sacks and 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 influx of Italian immigrants who established businesses to cater to their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican coffee beans shop she imported and sold - a drink that was so popular in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

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

Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the company was raised on the top floor of the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. The business is still run by the shop in the same way to his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, 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. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders, who are 33 years old, started 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 micro-lots or even whole harvests from a single farmer has been praised by highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In 2011, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at the peak of ripeness, then floated to get rid of any imperfections and then dried fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend with hints of berry, lemongrass and melon.

Sey's dedication extends beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of staff and growers, as well as customers. It uses biodegradable disposables and composts, preventing waste from the landfill and converting it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also does away with gratuity, which places baristas in the position to help sustain their livelihoods and encourage them to concentrate on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee brand, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to providing an outstanding coffee experience has earned them a loyal following not only in their hometown, but worldwide.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, going through hundreds of different lots every year to find ones that meet their standards. They roast them light roast coffee beans, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more vibrant taste and clarity.

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

The shop utilizes the La Marzocco modbar, and the plates and cups are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, which is a father-son studio. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different coffees a year, and usually has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer which roasts on-site and brews on demand, with each cup of coffee being roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than one minute. It searches far and across the globe for the highest-quality specialty coffee beans beans, which are directly sourced that provide customers with a choice and high-quality.

The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology that is quite different from the drum-type machines that are commonly used in the majority of 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 ensures a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was evident and the coffee began to cool down as you sipped the coffee. The subtle scents of citrus fruit were detected.

The roasted amazon coffee beans will be taken to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines to be brewed according your preferences within less than a minute. Customers can choose from a variety of single origins and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single espresso machine. It has since developed to become a burgeoning roastery, whose coffee beans are available in top cafes and restaurants as well as home brewers in every city. Parlor is committed to sourcing the highest-quality beans across the globe each of which has endured a laborious journey before it reaches the hands of its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about their craft and believe that great coffee should be accessible to all," have created a environment that is simple and has chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and low-frills decor.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six while I was there) They also hold cuppings on Sundays, and are open to the public. Think of it like a tasting room for breweries. You can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're away from the main roads but are it's worth the trip.