Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a lover of strong coffee beans then you'll want to visit a coffee bean shop. These shops sell a range of whole beans from all over the globe. They also offer unique kitchenware and trinkets.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops offer these in large quantities.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

When you step into this old-school West Village shop, the aroma of freshly roasting beans fills your nostrils. Unopened bags of dark brown beans line the shelves alongside sugar jars as well as 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 opened businesses in order to meet their food requirements. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so popular in the moment that the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including those from around the world, at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the business, grew up above his family's bakery located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to operate the shop in the same way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee roaster and shop located on Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This Brooklyn neighborhood, in the 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. They called it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's focus on buying micro-lots, or even entire harvests from single farmers has earned it 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 picked at their peak ripeness and then floated to eliminate any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend with hints of berry melon and lemongrass.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall well-being of employees and growers and customers. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts, keeping waste out of the landfill and converting it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also does away with gratuity, which puts baristas in a position to provide their livelihoods and motivate them to concentrate on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee business that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny shop and a committed team. Their honest and innovative approach to providing an outstanding coffee beans bulk buy experience has earned them a loyal following not only in their own town, but worldwide.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They scour hundreds of lots each year to find those that best fit their ideals. They roast them lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more vibrant flavor and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek minimalist 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 employs a La Marzocco Modbar as well as the cups, plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father/son studio in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different varieties of coffee each year, and typically has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given 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 every cup of coffee being roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than minutes. It scour countries far and wide for the highest-grade, directly sourced specialty coffee beans beans, offering customers choice and quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology that is a bit different to the drum-type machines that are commonly used in most UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in the heated box by high-speed air, which keeps the beans suspended and allows roasting to happen in a steady manner when they pass through the machine.

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 sip the coffee, you could smell subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The coffee is then be transferred to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines and brewed according to your specifications in less than a minute. Customers can pick from a selection of nine single origin choices and a wide range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

In 2012, the company was established in the back of a barbershop, complete with an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans can be found in top restaurants, cafes and home brewers all over the city. Parlor is committed to sourcing high-quality beans from all over the world, each of which has endured a laborious journey before getting into the roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about their craft and believe that good coffee should be accessible to everyone," have created a environment that is simple and has chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled handmade products, and low-frills decor.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six when I was there), but they also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room, where you can smell and taste the beans in the ground. They vary from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). They're a bit off the beaten track, but well worth a trip.