Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to go to a luxury coffee beans bean shop (try what she says). These shops offer a broad variety of beans that are whole from all over the world. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other things.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor who specialises in international brews loose teas and a variety.

The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air as you walk into this West Village shop. The sacks of dark brown beans are stacked on the shelves along with sugar jars coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increasing number of Italian immigrants who opened businesses to serve their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the famous Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) which was so popular that even the Pope was a fan.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including beans from all over the world located in three locations including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. The company roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

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

Sey Coffee

It is 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 from their new store in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's focus on purchasing micro-lots, or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the acclaim of the most discerning New York City strong coffee beans aficionados. 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 then floated to eliminate any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend with hints of the melon and berry.

Sey's commitment extends beyond its shop to improve the overall well-being of growers and staff, and customers. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables to keep waste out of landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases as well as nourish the soil. It also does away with gratuity, a move that places baristas in the position to sustain their livelihoods and encourage them to focus on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty-coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a committed staff. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a loyal following not just in their home town and across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, by scouring through hundreds of different varieties a year to find the ones that fit their ideals. They then roast them very lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This results in a brighter taste and clarity.

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

The shop employs a La Marzocco modbar and the cups and plates are made by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, which is a father-son studio. In a recent 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 coffees available at any given point.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts its own coffee and brews on demand, with every cup of coffee being roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than one minute. It searches countries far and across the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans that are directly sourced, offering customers choice and quality.

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

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was a rich cup with velvety mouthfeel. Dark chocolate aroma was evident and the coffee began to cool as you sip delicate citrus flavours fruit were evident.

The coffee that has been roasted will be transferred to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines to be brewed according your specifications in under a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins and different blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, with a single group espresso machine. It has since evolved to become a burgeoning roastery, whose coffee beans can be found in great cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to finding the finest quality beans, which have all been through a long journey before arriving at its roasters.

In their own words according to their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee beans delivery should be available to anyone." They do just that with their down-to-earth street space, which includes compost bins, a chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled products, and low-frills deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, but they also have cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area--you can smell and taste the beans in the ground. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). They're away from the main roads but are it's worth the trip.