Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur, then you will want to visit the shops selling coffee beans. These stores offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all over the world. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other things.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell coffee beans in bulk; wayranks.com, at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller who specializes in international brews, loose teas, and a variety.

When you enter this old-school West Village shop, the scent of freshly coffee beans fills your nostrils. Open bags of dark-brown beans are stacked on the shelves along with sugar jars, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing an influx of Italian immigrants, who had opened businesses in order to meet their food requirements. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so renowned that at the time, even the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including decaf beans coffee from all over the world in three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. The company roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in a similar 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 the fourth-floor loft located across the street from their new shop in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's reliance on micro-lots -- or even whole harvests from single farmers has been praised by the most discerning New York City coffee beans bulk aficionados. Last year they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were picked at the peak of ripeness, and floated to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cafe coffee beans with hints of berry, lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall health of staff and farmers, as well as customers. It utilizes composts and biodegradable products to keep waste out of landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases and helps nourish the soil. It also reduces gratuity. This lets baristas concentrate on their work and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee business that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small store and a dedicated team. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience has earned them a following not only in their own town but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, scouring through hundreds of different varieties each year to identify the ones that match their ideals. They then roast them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This results in clearer and more vibrant taste.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek minimalist design, and has been praised by global coffee aficionados for its exacting pour overs and baked goods, which are overseen 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 and plates are made by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, a father and 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 time.

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 being roasted and brewed according to your requirements in less than a minute. It searches the globe for the highest quality specialty coffee beans beans that are directly sourced to give customers the option of the choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from the traditional drum machines found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in a heated box by high-velocity air that keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate as they move through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was velvety and rich with a velvety flavor. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma and as you sip the luxury coffee beans you could detect subtle citrus fruit flavors.

The roasted coffee is then transported to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and brewed to your specification in just a few minutes. Customers can pick from nine single origin selections and a wide range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, equipped with a single group espresso machine. It has since grown to become a burgeoning roastery, with beans that can be found in great cafes restaurants, cafes, and home brewers in every city. Parlor is committed to sourcing top-quality beans from all over the world Each one has had to endure a lengthy journey before reaching the hands of its roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about craft and believe that great coffee should accessible to everyone," have created a place that is a bit more grounded with chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled handmade items, and simple decor.

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six when I was there) However, they also hold cuppings on Sundays, and are open to the public. Think of it as a brewery tasting room--you can smell and taste the ground beans, ranging from chocolaty earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten track and well worth a trip.