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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are a coffee enthusiast, you must visit a coffee shop. These shops provide a variety of whole beans from around the globe. They also offer unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

The scent of freshly roasting beans fills the air when you walk into this West Village shop. Unopened bags of dark brown beans line the shelves alongside jars of sugar coffee beans gift set-making equipment, tea and other accessories.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx of Italian immigrants, who set up businesses in order to meet their food needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so well-known in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, coffee beans Ground Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

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

Sey Coffee

It is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey coffee beans wholesale suppliers is both a coffee shop and roaster. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in the fourth-floor loft just around the corner from their new shop in 2011 under the name Lofted hasbean coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's commitment to buying micro-lots or whole harvests, from single farmers has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. Last year they made a 6-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at their peak ripeness, floated to eliminate any defects and dried fermented for a period of 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend with hints of berry melon and lemongrass.

Sey's commitment extends beyond its shop to improve the overall well-being of staff and growers, as well as customers. It uses composts and biodegradable products to keep waste from the landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also nourish the 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 company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small shop and a dedicated staff. Their open and creative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience earned them a following not only in their hometown, but globally.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, by scouring through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that fit their ideals. Then, they roast them in a light style, dialing them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more intense flavor and clarity.

The East Village store, which opened in October last year and has been praised by critics for its high-quality 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 establishments.

The shop is equipped with the La Marzocco modbar, and the cups and plates are custom-designed at 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 types of coffee per day and has typically seven or eight coffees available at any time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant, a multi-unit retailer of coffee roasts and brews coffee on-site. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than seconds. It scour countries far and wide for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced that provide customers with a choice and quality.

The on-site roaster employs fluid bed technology that is a bit different to traditional drum-type machines found in the majority of UK coffee houses. The beans are blown inside a heated container with high-speed and circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and ensures a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was velvety and rich with a smooth taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma, and as you sipped the Coffee Beans Ground you could taste subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The coffee is whisked to the store's Eversys brewing machines that are super-automatic and can be you can have your coffee brewed to your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can choose from a variety of single origins and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single espresso machine. It has since morphed to become a burgeoning roastery, whose coffee beans are available in top cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers in every city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the highest-quality beans, which have all been through a long journey before reaching its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about craft and believe that good coffee should be available to everyone," have created a space that is down-to earth, with chalkboards, compost bins, recycled handmade products, and low-frills decor.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins. But they also hold cuppings on Sundays that are open to the general public. Think of it as the tasting room of a brewery. You can smell and taste the ground beans, from chocolatey to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're off the beaten path and well worth a trip.