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 go to a coffee bean shop. These shops offer a broad 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 the beans in bulk at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran organic coffee beans seller that concentrates on international brews, loose teas, and a variety.

When you walk into this traditional West Village shop, the aroma of freshly coffee beans fills your nostrils. The Coffee Bean Shop (Bbs.Ts3Sv.Com) shelves are stacked with jars and sacks of dark brown beans, with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories, and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing a surge of Italian immigrants, who established businesses to cater to their food requirements. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican coffee beans price she imported and sold - a drink that was so popular that at the time, even the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including beans from all over the world in three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. The company also 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 company, grew up above the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He still runs the business in the same manner as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's decision to buy micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the respect of New York City unroasted coffee beans wholesale enthusiasts. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa region. The beans were picked when they were ripe and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's goal of holistically improving the health of employees, customers and growers extends beyond the shop. It makes use of biodegradable disposables and composts, preventing waste from landfills and turning it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and feed the soil. It also prevents gratuities. This allows baristas to concentrate on their craft and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a dedicated team. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a unique coffee experience earned their acclaim not just in their hometown but all over the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, scouring through hundreds of different lots every year to find ones that fit their ideals. They roast them lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This results in a brighter taste and clarity.

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

The shop uses the La Marzocco Modbar as well as the cups, plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father and son studio in Horsens. In a recent interview Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees a yea, and has usually seven or eight varieties on offer at any one 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 one second. It scour countries far and wide for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced that offer customers a variety and quality.

The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology that is quite different from the drum-type machines commonly found in the majority of UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in a heated container by high-speed air which keeps the green beans in suspension and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate when they pass through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was smooth and rich with a velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma and as you sip the coffee you could smell subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The coffee that has been roasted is whisked to the Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in less than a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origins and various blends.

Parlor Coffee

Founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop equipped with a single-group espresso machine, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans can be found in top restaurants, cafes and home brewers in the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing high-quality beans from across the globe Each one has been through a long and difficult journey before reaching the hands of its roasters.

According to their own words in their own words, they "have a relentless passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee should be available to everyone." They do just that with their down-to-earth area on a residential street. Think compost bins, a chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled items, and low-frills deco.

They roast and create their own blends and 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 area where you can smell and taste the beans that are ground. They are a mix of earthy and chocolate (one was almost like tomato!). They're away from the tourist trail but are is worth a visit.