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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a lover of coffee and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to try out a coffee bean shop. These shops offer a broad variety of beans that are whole from all over the world. They also offer unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that is a specialist in international brews, loose teas, and a wide selection.

The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air once you walk into this West Village shop. The sacks of dark brown beans are displayed on the shelves alongside jars of sugar as well as coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an large influx of Italian immigrants who established establishments to cater to their dietary needs. Albanese named her shop after the popular Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) the beverage was so popular that even the Pope was a fan.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico 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 over his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He continues to operate the shop in a similar way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, coffee bean shop a coffee shop and roaster is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This Brooklyn neighborhood, in the Bushwick district, is located on Grattan Street. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders began roasting coffee in the loft on the fourth floor just around the corner, in 2011. They dubbed it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the praise of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were picked at their peak of 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 coffee with hints of berry melon and lemongrass.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall well-being of employees and growers as well as its customers. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts to keep 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 craft and to earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a committed staff. Their honest and innovative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience earned them a following that was not only in their own town but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process to find their perfect beans, searching through hundreds of different lots each year to identify the ones that meet their standards. They roast them lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more vibrant taste and clarity.

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

The shop utilizes a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups, plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father/son studio in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees per day and has typically seven or eight varieties available at any given time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

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

The roaster they have on site is a fluid bed machine, which is different from traditional drum machines found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown into a heated box with high-velocity air, which is circulated. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was present and the coffee started to cool as you sipped and subtle aromas of citrus fruit were detected.

The coffee that has been roasted will be taken to the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines and brewed according your preferences in under a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origin selections and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop equipped with an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans can be found in top restaurants, cafes and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the highest quality beans that have been through a lengthy journey before reaching its roasters.

In their own words the owners "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a belief that good coffee should be accessible to anyone." They accomplish this by putting their home-like space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled products, and low-frills deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins, but they also have cuppings on Sundays, which are accessible to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area where you can taste and smell the beans in the ground. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). It's a bit off the beaten track, but worth the journey.