Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are an avid coffee drinker, you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These stores provide a large assortment of whole beans from all over the world. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops sell these in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews, as well as a variety of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air once you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are filled with jars, sacks and dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories and sugar.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who had opened businesses to serve their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) the beverage was so famous at the time that even the Pope drank it.

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 also roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the business was raised above his family's bakery located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. The business is still run by the shop in the same manner as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a coffee shop and roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders, who are 33 years old, started roasting coffee in an apartment on the fourth floor just across the street, in 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 praise 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 harvested at their peak of ripeness and steamed to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend with hints of berry melon and lemongrass.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall health of staff and growers, as well as its customers. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts, keeping waste out of garbage and converting it into agents that reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts baristas in a position to provide their livelihoods as well as encourage them to focus on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a committed team. Their honest and creative approach to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience has earned their acclaim not just in their hometown however, but across the globe.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They go through hundreds of varieties each year in order to find those that best meet their standards. They then roast them very lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more intense flavor and clarity.

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

The shop is equipped with the La Marzocco modbar and the cups and plates are custom-designed at Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different coffees a year, and typically has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given moment.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts on-site and brews to order, with each cup of coffee roasting and brewed according to your preferences in less than a minute. It searches the world for Coffeee.uk the finest specialty beans that are sourced directly offering customers a choices and high-quality.

Their onsite roaster is a fluid bed device, that is distinct from the traditional drum machines found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around in the heated box by high-speed air that 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 smooth and rich with a velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma, and as you sipped the coffee, you could taste subtle citrus fruit aromas.

The coffee is whisked to the Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in just a few minutes. Customers can select from nine single origin options and a wide range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, with a single group espresso machine. It has since evolved into a flourishing Premium 250g Arabica Coffee Beans: Freshly Roasted Medium Roast roastery, whose beans can be found in a variety of great cafes and restaurants as well as home brewers across the city. Parlor is committed to sourcing top-quality beans from around the globe each of which has endured a laborious journey before it reaches the roasters.

According to their own words the owners "have a relentless passion for craft and a conviction that good coffee should be available to everyone." They do just this by putting their home-like space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboard welcome hand-made up-cycled goods, and a minimally-decorated space.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six on the menu when I was there) Also, they hold cuppings on Sundays, and are open to the public. Imagine it as an artisanal tasting room in which you can smell and taste the beans, from chocolaty to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). It's a bit off the beaten track, but worth the journey.