Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are an avid coffee drinker, then you should go to a coffee shop. These stores provide a large 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 them in large quantities.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor specializing in international brews and a selection of loose teas

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

The first restaurant opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an large influx of Italian immigrants who opened establishments to cater to their dietary requirements. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so renowned that at the time, even the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. The company also roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, was raised in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to operate the shop in the same way to his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a 500g coffee beans shop and roaster, is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This neighborhood, located in Brooklyn's Bushwick district is situated on Grattan Street. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders of 33 years, began roasting coffee in the 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 commitment to buying micro-lots, and even whole harvests from single farmers has earned him the respect 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 their peak of ripeness and steamed to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend with hints of melons and berries.

Sey's focus on holistically improving the quality of life for staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the store. It uses biodegradable disposables and composts, keeping waste out of the landfill and converting it into agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also reduces gratuity. This allows baristas to focus on their craft and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a dedicated team. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing an exceptional coffee experience earned them a following that was not only in their own town however, but across the globe.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They search through hundreds of beans each year in order to select the beans that best match their ideals. They roast them light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This results in a brighter taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which opened in October last year was praised for its excellent pour overs and baked goods, which are overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and various coffee establishments.

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco modbar, and the cups and plates are made by 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 coffees every day and has typically seven or eight varieties on offer at any one time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

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

The on-site roaster employs fluid bed technology which is a bit different to traditional drum-type machines found in most UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in the heated box by high-speed air that keeps the green beans in suspension and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner throughout the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was incredibly rich and velvety with a smooth taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma. As you sipped the coffee, you could detect subtle citrus fruit aromas.

The roasted organic coffee beans will be poured into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your preferences in under a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as different blends.

Parlor 500g coffee beans

Founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop, complete with an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans are available at top restaurants, cafes and home brewers in the city. Parlor is committed to procuring high-quality coffee beans from all over the world Each one is a long, arduous journey before getting into the roasters.

According to their own words in their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be accessible to everyone." They achieve this with their earthy street space, which includes compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled items, and a minimalist deco.

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there), but they also hold cuppings on Sundays, and are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room where you can smell and taste the beans in the ground. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). They're away from the main roads however, they're is worth a visit.