Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you’re a fan of coffee then you’ll want to check out a coffee bean coffee bean shop (check out here). These stores provide a large assortment of whole beans from all over the world. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware and other things.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor who concentrates on international brews, loose teas, and a wide selection.

The scent of freshly roasting beans fills the air when you enter this West Village shop. Unopened bags of dark brown beans are displayed on the shelves alongside jars of sugar coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories.

Porto Rico was first opened in 1907 Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses to satisfy their food requirements. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold – a drink that was so popular in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the globe at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

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

Sey Coffee

It is 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 of 33 years, began roasting coffee in an apartment on the fourth floor, just around the corner in 2011. They dubbed it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint’s Budin and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey’s decision to buy micro-lots, or even whole harvests from single farmers has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In 2011, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil’s Espirito Santo region. The beans were carefully picked at peak ripeness and floated to eliminate any defects, then dry fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry lemongrass and melon.

Sey’s mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall health of staff and farmers, and customers. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables in order to keep waste out of the garbage dumps. This helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also nourish the soil. It also removes gratuities. This allows baristas to focus on their craft and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company started with a modest store and a committed staff. Their innovative and honest approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a devoted following, not just in their local area, but worldwide.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, scouring through hundreds of different lots every year to locate the ones that fit their ideals. They roast them light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees clearer and more vibrant taste.

The East Village store, which was opened in October of last year it has been praised for its premium pour-overs, as well as the baked goods that are overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and other coffee establishments.

The shop uses the La Marzocco modbar and the plates and cups are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta coffee beans for sale 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 time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant, a multi-unit retailer of coffee roasts and brews its coffee on the spot. Each cup is roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than seconds. It searches the world far to find the finest specialty beans that are directly sourced, offering customers choice and high-quality.

Their onsite roaster uses fluid bed technology that is a bit different to the classic drum-type machines used in most UK coffee shops. The beans are blown into a heated box with high-velocity, circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and ensures a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was a rich cup with an enveloping mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was present. The speciality coffee beans began to cool as you sip delicate citrus flavours fruit were detected.

The roasted top rated coffee beans will then be transferred to the store’s Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines and brewed according your preferences in less than one minute. Customers can select from a variety of single origins and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop with an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans are found at great cafes, restaurants and home brewers across the city. Parlor is committed to procuring high-quality coffee beans from across the globe, each of which is a long, arduous journey before it reaches the roasters.

According to their own words the owners “have an unstoppable passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be accessible to anyone.” They accomplish that with their down-to-earth streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled items, and low-frills deco.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six on the menu when I was there) Also, they do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area where you can taste and smell the beans as they are roasted. They vary from earthy to chocolaty (one was almost like tomato!). It’s a little off the beaten path, but well worth the trip.