Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a fan of coffee then you'll want to try out a coffee bean shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from all over the globe. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other products.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor Coffeee who is a specialist in international brews, loose teas, and a variety.

When you step into this old-fashioned West Village shop, the smell of fresh roasting beans fills the air. Unopened bags of dark brown beans line the shelves, along with sugar jars coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories.

In 1907, the first time it was opened, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who established businesses to satisfy their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the popular Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage so famous at the time that even the Pope drank it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, which includes those from around the globe in 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 was the owner of Porto Rico. The business is still run by the shop in the same way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster located on 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 a loft on the fourth floor, just across the street in 2011. They dubbed it Lofted coffee bean near me. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the praise of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year they made a 6-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were handpicked at peak ripeness and floated to remove defects and then dried fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, melon and lemongrass.

Sey's focus on holistically improving the wellbeing of employees, customers and growers extends beyond the retail store. It makes use of composts and biodegradable products to ensure that waste is kept out of the garbage dumps. This helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, which puts the baristas in a position to help sustain their livelihoods and motivate them to concentrate on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a loyal following not only in their own town and across the globe.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to find their perfect beans. They scour through hundreds of varieties each year to find those that best meet their ideals. Then, they roast them in a light style, dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a greater clarity and a more vibrant taste.

The East Village store, which opened in October last year it has been praised for its premium 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 establishments.

The shop utilizes a La Marzocco modbar and the cups and plates are custom-designed at Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. In a recent Q&A 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 coffees available at any given moment.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee roasts and brews coffee on-site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your requirements in less than a second. It searches far and across the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans, which are directly sourced providing customers with choice and quality.

The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology which is a bit different to the classic drum-type machines used in most UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around a heated box by high-velocity air, which keeps the green beans suspended and allows them to be roasted at a consistent rate 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 and as you sipped the coffee you could smell subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The roasted coffee will be whisked into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines and brewed according your preferences in under a minute. Customers can select from a selection of nine single origin choices and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop with an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans are sold at top restaurants, cafes and home brewers all over the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the highest-quality beans, which have all been through a long journey before reaching its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about the craft and believe that good coffee should be accessible to all," have created a place that is a bit more grounded and filled with chalkboards. There are compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and minimal decor.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six when I was there) Also, they have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area where you can taste and smell the beans in the ground. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). They're away from the tourist trail, but it's worth the trip.