Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a lover of coffee, then you will want to try out a coffee bean shop. These stores provide a large variety of beans that are whole from all over the world. They also sell exclusive trinkets, kitchenware and other products.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews and a variety of loose teas

The scent of freshly roasted beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. Open bags of dark roast coffee beans-brown beans line the shelves alongside sugar jars, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.

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

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, which includes those from around the world in three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. Porto Rico also roasts its own beans and offers 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. He continues to operate 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 an espresso bar and a coffee roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders of 33 years, began roasting coffee in an apartment on the fourth floor just across the street, in the year 2011. They dubbed it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's preference for buying micro-lots, or even entire harvests from single farmers has earned it the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. The last time Sey was in the market, he purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa region. The beans were harvested when they were ripe and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend that is fragrant with hints of melons and berries.

Sey's commitment to holistically improving the wellbeing of staff, growers and customers extends beyond the store. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts, preventing waste from landfills and turning it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also reduces gratuity. This allows baristas to concentrate on their work and to earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee business that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a dedicated team. Their honest and innovative approach to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience earned them a following that was not only in their hometown but all over the world.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They scour hundreds of varieties each year in order to select the beans that best meet their ideals. They then roast them very lightly, dialing in their desired flavor coffee Beans unroasted profile. This gives the coffees more vibrant flavor and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October, with a minimalist and sleek design, and has been praised worldwide by coffee aficionados for its exacting pour overs and baked goods overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop utilizes a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates and bowls are made by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and son studio in Horsens. 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 typically has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given point.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant A multi-unit coffee retailer roasts and brews coffee on site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your specifications within less than an hour. It searches far and across the globe for the highest-quality coffee beans, directly sourced specialty beans that offer customers a variety and quality.

Their onsite roaster is a fluid bed machine, which is different from the classic drum machines used in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown through an enclosed box that is heated and has high-speed, circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a constant roasting speed.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was velvety and rich with a velvety flavor. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma. As you sipped the coffee you could taste subtle citrus fruit flavors.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing systems and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in under a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origins as well as different blends.

Parlor unroasted coffee beans

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop equipped with a single group espresso machine. It has since morphed into a burgeoning coffee roastery, and its beans can be found in great cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the highest-quality beans, that have all undergone a long journey before reaching its roasters.

In their own words in their own words, they "have a relentless passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee should be available to everyone." They achieve that by creating a simple space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled items, and low-frills deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins, but they also have cuppings on Sundays that are accessible to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room for breweries. You can smell and taste the ground beans, from chocolatey to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). It's a little off the beaten path, but worth the trip.