Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover You'll want to visit the coffee shop. These stores offer a wide range of whole beans from all across the globe. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other things.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Others offer large quantities of cheap Coffee Beans beans at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

When you step into this quaint West Village shop, the scent of freshly roasted beans fills your nose. The shelves are stacked with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories and sugar.

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an large influx of Italian immigrants who established businesses to cater to their culinary requirements. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican most expensive coffee beans she imported and sold - a beverage that was so popular in the moment that 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 provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, was raised in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the business in the same way like his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee roaster and shop located on Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This Brooklyn neighborhood, in the Bushwick district is located on Grattan Street. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders, who are 33 years old, started roasting coffee in the loft on the fourth floor just around the corner 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 acclaim of New York City coffee bean suppliers 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 picked at their peak ripeness and steamed to remove any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend with hints of berry lemongrass and melon.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the wellbeing of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the retail store. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables to keep waste out of the landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This lets baristas concentrate on their craft and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company started with a modest store and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a unique coffee experience earned them a following that was not only in their own town but also around the world.

La Carba follows a strict process to find their perfect beans. They scour through hundreds of beans each year to find those that best match their ideals. Then they roast them in a very light manner, dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more vibrant flavor and clarity.

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

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

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts its own coffee bean shop and brews to order, with every cup of coffee roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than one minute. It scour the globe for the highest-grade specialty beans that are sourced directly offering customers a the option of choice and quality.

The roaster they have on site is a fluid bed device, which is different from the traditional drum machines found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around in an enclosed box heated by high-speed air, which keeps the green beans suspended and allows them to be roasted at a consistent rate when they pass through the machine.

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

The coffee that has been roasted will be whisked into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines and brewed according to your preferences in less than a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origins as well as a variety blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, equipped with a single group espresso machine. It has since grown into a bustling coffee roastery, with beans that are available in top cafes and restaurants as well as home brewers all over the city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the finest quality beans, which have all been through a long journey before reaching its roasters.

In their own words the owners "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a belief that great 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, chalkboards 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 have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the general public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area where you can smell and taste the beans in the ground. They are a mix of earthy and chocolate (one was similar to tomato!). They're off the beaten track, but well worth a trip.