Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee enthusiast, you should go to a coffee shop. These shops offer a broad selection of whole beans from all across the globe. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other products.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

When you enter this traditional West Village shop, the aroma of freshly roasted beans fills your nose. Unopened bags of dark brown beans are displayed on the shelves alongside sugar jars, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.

The first restaurant opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increasing number of Italian immigrants who opened businesses to cater to their culinary requirements. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so famous in the present, that even the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, 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 was raised over his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He continues to run the business in the same fashion as his father did and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

The shop is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both an espresso bar and a coffee roaster. 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 beans unroasted (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's focus on buying micro-lots, or even entire harvests from single farmers has earned it the praise of New York City coffee enthusiasts. The last time Sey was in the market, he purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa region. The beans were carefully picked at the peak of ripeness, then floated to remove defects and dried fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend that has hints of melons and berries.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall health of staff and farmers, as well as its customers. It uses composts and biodegradable disposables to keep waste out of the landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also does away with gratuity, which puts baristas in a position to support their livelihoods as well as encourage them to concentrate on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a dedicated staff. Their open and creative approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a following that was not only in their own town however, but across the globe.

La Carba follows a strict method to select their best beans. They scour through hundreds of varieties every year in order to find those that best match their ideals. They roast them light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This results in more clarity and a better taste.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek minimalist style, and has been praised worldwide by coffee lovers for its meticulous pour overs and baked goods that are overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop uses a La Marzocco modbar, and the plates and cups are designed by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, which is a father-son studio. In a recent interview Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees per day and usually has seven or eight varieties available at any given moment.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts its own coffee and brews to order with each cup of coffee roasting and brewed to your specifications in less than one minute. It searches far and across the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans, which are directly sourced that offer customers a variety and high-quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology which is a bit different to the drum-type machines that are commonly used in most UK coffee houses. The beans are blown inside a heated container with high-speed, circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and ensures a consistent roasting rate.

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

The coffee that has been roasted is whisked to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in just a few minutes. Customers can pick from a variety of single origins and a wide range of blends.

Parlor top rated coffee beans

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single group espresso machine. It has since morphed into a burgeoning coffee roastery, and its beans can be found in a variety of great cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers in every city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the finest quality beans, which have all been through a long journey before arriving at its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about the craft and believe that good coffee should accessible to everyone," have created a environment that is simple and has chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made items, and simple decor.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins. However, they also host cuppings on Sundays, which are accessible to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room where you can smell and taste the beans that are ground. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). It's a little away from the main roads, but worth the journey.