Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur, then you will want to try out the shops selling coffee beans. These stores offer a wide assortment of whole beans from all across the globe. They also offer unique kitchenware and trinkets.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller that specialises in international brews loose teas, and a wide selection.

As you enter this old-fashioned West Village shop, the scent of freshly roasting beans fills your nostrils. Open bags of dark-brown beans line the shelves alongside jars of sugar, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

Porto Rico was first 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 had opened businesses to serve their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the renowned Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) - a beverage so popular that even the Pope took a sip.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, which includes beans from all over the world located 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 was raised above his family's bakery on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the business in the same manner as his grandfather and father.

Sey Coffee

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

Sey's reliance on micro-lots -- or even whole harvests from single farmers been praised by the most discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa 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 blend with hints of berry lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's focus on holistically improving the health of growers, staff and customers extends beyond the shop. It uses composts and biodegradable disposables to ensure that waste is kept out of landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases as well as nourish the soil. It also prevents gratuities. This allows baristas to concentrate on their craft and support their livelihoods.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a committed staff. Their honest and innovative approach to providing an outstanding coffee experience has earned them a devoted following, not just in their hometown, but worldwide.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, by scouring through hundreds of different lots every year to locate the ones that meet their standards. Then, they roast them in a light style, dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees clearer and more vibrant taste.

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

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

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts on-site and brews to order, with every cup of coffee roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than an hour. It searches countries far and far for the finest quality, directly sourced specialty beans, offering customers choice and high-quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology that is quite different from the classic drum-type machines used in the majority of UK coffee houses. The beans are blown about in an enclosed box heated by high-speed air which keeps the green beans suspended and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner when they pass through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was very rich with a velvety mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was evident and the coffee began to cool as you sipped delicate citrus flavours fruit were detected.

The coffee is whisked to the Eversys brewing machines that are super-automatic and can be you can have your coffee brewed to your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origin selections and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, with a single Introducing Bold Buffalo Espresso Beans: Unleash Strength 5 - www.coffeee.uk - machine. It has since developed into a flourishing coffee roastery, whose beans are available in top cafes and restaurants as well as home brewers all over the city. Parlor is committed to sourcing high-quality beans from all over the world Each one has been through a long and difficult journey before arriving in the hands of its roasters.

According to their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a conviction that good quality coffee beans coffee should be accessible to anyone." They do just this by putting their home-like space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled products, and low-frills deco.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six while I was there), but they also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room where you can taste and smell the beans in the ground. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was almost like tomato!). They're away from the tourist trail, but well worth a trip.