Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover, you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These shops offer a broad variety of beans that are whole from all across the globe. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Some shops offer coffee beans in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air once you walk into this West Village shop. The shelves are stacked with jars and sacks of dark brown beans, 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 increasing number of Italian immigrants who had opened businesses to serve their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so famous at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including those from around the globe, at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. Porto Rico also roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the business, grew up above the bakery of his family on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the shop in the same manner as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from single farmers--has earned it the praise of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were picked at the peak of ripeness, and then floated to eliminate any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend that has hints of fruit and melon.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the quality of life for staff, growers and customers extends beyond The Coffee Bean Shop shop. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables in order to ensure that waste is kept out of the garbage dumps. This helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also nourish the soil. It also prevents gratuities. This lets baristas concentrate on their work and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee brand, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. The company started with a modest store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not only in their home town but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, going through hundreds of different lots every year to locate the ones that meet their standards. They then light roast coffee beans them very lightly, dialing in their 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 excellent pour overs and baked goods, overseen and managed by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel as well as other coffee houses.

The shop uses a La Marzocco Modbar as well as the cups, plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and son studio located in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves about 250 different coffees a year, and typically has seven or eight different varieties available at any given point.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts on-site and brews according to your preferences, with each cup of coffee roasting and brewed according to your requirements in less than an hour. It searches countries far and far for the finest quality specialty beans that are directly sourced providing customers with choice and quality.

The roaster they have on site is a fluid bed machine which is different from classic drum machines used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around a heated container by high-speed air, which keeps the beans suspended and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner throughout the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was smooth and rich with a rich and velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma. And as you sipped the coffee beans unroasted there were subtle citrus fruit flavors.

The roasted coffee is then whisked to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing systems and brewed to your specification in just a few minutes. Customers can choose from nine single origins as well as various blends.

Parlor Coffee

In 2012, the company was established in the back of a barbershop that had one espresso machine in a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans can be found in top restaurants, cafes and home brewers all over the city. Parlor is committed to sourcing the highest rated coffee beans-quality beans all over the world, each of which has endured a laborious journey before it reaches the roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about the craft and believe that great coffee should be accessible to everyone," have created a space that is grounded, with chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled handmade products, and a minimalist interior.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six when I was there), but they also do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the ground beans, from chocolaty to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're off the beaten track but are well worth a trip.

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