Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are a coffee lover, you must visit a coffee shop. These shops offer a variety of whole beans from all over the globe. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other products.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others offer coffee beans in bulk coffee beans - look at here - at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

When you enter this old-school West Village shop, the aroma of freshly coffee beans fills your nostrils. The shelves are stacked with jars and sacks of dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories, and sugar.

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

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. The company also roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the business, grew up above the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He continues to run the shop in a similar way to his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

It is located on Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a cafe and a roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders of 33 years, began roasting coffee in an apartment on the fourth floor just around the corner in the year 2011. The name was Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's focus on purchasing micro-lots, or even whole harvests from single farmers--has earned it the respect of the most discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The decaf beans coffee were carefully picked at peak ripeness, removed by flotation to eliminate defects, then dry fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of staff and farmers, as well as customers. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, keeping waste out of garbage and converting it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also prevents gratuities. 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. It began with a tiny shop and a committed team. Their innovative and honest approach to providing a superior coffee experience has earned them a devoted following, not just in their local area but all over the world.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, by scouring through hundreds of different varieties every year to find ones that meet their standards. Then they roast them in a very light manner before dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees an enhanced taste and clarity.

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

The shop uses the La Marzocco modbar, and the plates and cups are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, the son and father studio. In a recent interview, Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees per day and typically has seven or eight different varieties available at any time.

The Roasting Plant expensive coffee beans

The Roasting Plant, a multi-unit coffee retailer roasts and brews its coffee on the spot. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your specifications within less than one second. It scour the globe for the highest quality specialty beans that are sourced directly, giving customers choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster uses fluid bed technology that is quite different from traditional drum-type machines found in the majority of UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in an enclosed box heated by high quality coffee beans-speed air that keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was velvety and rich with a rich and velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma and as you sip the coffee, there were subtle citrus fruit flavors.

The roasted coffee will then be poured into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines, and brewed to your specifications in less than a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origin options and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

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

According to their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a belief that good coffee should be accessible to anyone." They achieve this by putting their home-like streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, a chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled items, and a simple deco.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six when I was there) They also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room, where you can taste and smell the ground beans. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). They're a bit off the beaten path but are worthwhile to visit.