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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are an avid coffee drinker, you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These shops sell a range of whole beans from around the world. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other products.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell coffee beans in bulk at their retail stores.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews, loose teas, and a variety.

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are lined with jars and bags of dark brown beans, along with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who set up businesses to meet their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the renowned Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - - a drink that was so famous at the time that even the Pope drank it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties 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 to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the business was raised above his family's bakery located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in the same manner as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

The shop is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a coffee shop and 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 named it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's preference for buying micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the acclaim of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In the past they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at peak ripeness, floated to get rid of any imperfections and dried fermented for a period of 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry, lemongrass and melon.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall well-being of growers and staff, and customers. It makes use of biodegradable disposables and composts, preventing waste from the landfill and converting it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and feed the soil. It also does away with gratuity, a move that puts baristas into a position to help sustain their livelihoods and encourage them to focus on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty cafe coffee beans brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They began with a small shop and a team of dedicated employees. Their innovative and honest approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a devoted following, not just in their own town, but worldwide.

La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal coffeee beans, going through hundreds of different varieties every year to find ones that match their ideals. Then they roast them in a light manner before dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This results in a brighter taste and clarity.

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

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates and bowls are designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father and son studio located in Horsens. In a recent Q&A session with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different varieties of coffee each year, and usually has seven or eight coffees available at any given point.

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 preferences in less than an hour. It is a search engine for the highest-quality specialty beans that are directly sourced to give customers the option of the choice and quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology that is quite different from traditional drum-type machines found in many UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around in a heated box by high-velocity air, which keeps the green beans suspended and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner as they travel through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was very rich with a velvety mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was evident and the coffee began to cool while you sipped the coffee. The subtle scents of citrus fruit were detected.

The coffee that has been roasted is whisked to the Eversys super-automatic brewing systems and it is brewed to your requirements in under a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origins as well as different blends.

Parlor Coffee

It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop, complete with an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans can be found in top cafes, restaurants and home brewers all over the city. Parlor is committed to sourcing high-quality beans from across the globe, each of which is a long, arduous journey before it reaches the roasters.

According to their own words, they "have a relentless passion for craft and a belief that good coffee should be available to anyone." They achieve that with their down-to-earth street space, which includes compost bins, a chalkboard welcome hand-made up-cycled goods, and a minimalist deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, however they also host cuppings on Sundays that are accessible to the public. Think of it as the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten track but are well worth a trip.