Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover, you must visit a coffee shop. These stores provide a large range of whole beans from all across the globe. They also offer unique kitchenware and trinkets.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Others offer the beans in bulk at their retail stores.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor specializing in international brews and a variety of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air when you walk into this West Village shop. Unopened bags of dark brown beans are stacked on the shelves along with sugar jars 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 influx of Italian immigrants who established businesses to cater to their culinary requirements. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so renowned in the present, that even 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. Porto Rico also roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the company was raised above his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He runs the business in the same way like his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

The shop is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a cafe and a roaster. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33, started roasting in a fourth-floor loft across the street 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 commitment to buying micro-lots, or even entire harvests from single farmers has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The beans were handpicked at the peak of ripeness, then floated to get rid of any imperfections, then dry fermented for a period of 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's commitment to holistically improving the health of employees, customers and growers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It utilizes composts and biodegradable disposables in order to keep waste from the landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that places baristas in the position to help sustain their livelihoods and encourage them to focus on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a superior coffee beans wholesale suppliers [tst.ezmir.Co.kr] experience has earned them a devoted following not only in their home town but also around the world.

La Carba follows a strict method to select their best beans. They search through hundreds of varieties each year in order to find those that best fit their ideals. They then roast them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This results in an enhanced taste and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October, with a minimalist and sleek style, and has been praised by international 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 is equipped with the La Marzocco modbar and the plates and cups are made by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different coffees per year, and typically has seven or eight different varieties available at any given moment.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

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

Their onsite roaster uses fluid bed technology, which is a bit different to the drum-type machines commonly found in most UK coffee houses. The beans are blown into an enclosed box that is heated and has high-speed, circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and ensures a consistent roasting speed.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was velvety 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 flavors.

The coffee is transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and it is brewed to your requirements in less than a minute. Customers can select from nine single origin selections and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, using a single espresso machine. It has since morphed to become a burgeoning roastery, with beans that are sold in top cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing the highest-quality beans across the globe, each of which has been through a long and difficult journey before getting into the hands of its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about craft and believe that a good cup of coffee beans manchester should be accessible to all," have created a space that is down-to earth and has chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled handmade items, and simple decor.

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. Think of it as an artisanal tasting room in which you can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). It's a bit off the beaten path but well worth the trip.