Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're an avid coffee drinker, you should go to a coffee shop. These stores offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all across the globe. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other things.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

When you enter this quaint West Village shop, the smell of fresh roasting beans fills the air. The shelves are packed with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, along with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing a surge of Italian immigrants, who established businesses to meet their food needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so renowned in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including those from around the world in three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico also roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the company was raised above the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to run the business in the same fashion as his father did and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's decision to buy micro-lots, and even whole harvests from single farmers has earned it the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. Last year they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were harvested at their peak ripeness and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup that is fragrant with hints of fruit and melon.

Sey's focus on holistically improving the wellbeing of growers, staff and customers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, keeping waste out of landfills and turning it into agents that lower harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also does away with gratuity, which puts baristas in a position to support their livelihoods and encourage them to focus on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing an exceptional Amazon coffee Beans experience has earned them a following, not just in their home town but all over the world.

La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, scouring through hundreds of different lots every year to locate the ones that match their ideals. They then roast them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees more clarity and a better taste.

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

The shop employs the La Marzocco modbar and the cups and plates are made by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, which is a father-son studio. In a recent Q&A with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different coffees per year, and usually has seven or eight different varieties available at any given time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

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

Their roaster on site is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from the traditional drum machines found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around an enclosed box heated by high-speed air which keeps the green beans in suspension and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate throughout the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was incredibly rich and velvety with a velvety flavor. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma. And as you sipped the coffee, you could smell subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The roasted coffee will be whisked into the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your preferences in under a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origins as well as a variety blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop that had an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans are found at great restaurants, cafes and home brewers all over the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the finest quality beans, which have been through a lengthy journey before arriving at its roasters.

According to their own words, they "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee should be accessible to everyone." They achieve that by creating a simple streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, chalkboard welcome hand-made up-cycled goods, and a minimally-decorated space.

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