Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee connoisseur then you'll want to try out the shops selling coffee beans. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from around the globe. They also have unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor specializing in international brews and a selection of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air once you walk into this West Village shop. The shelves are filled with jars and bags of dark brown beans, with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories, and sugar.

In 1907, the first time it was opened, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who opened businesses to cater to their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so popular at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

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

Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the company was raised above the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the shop in the same way as his grandfather and father.

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. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders began roasting coffee in an apartment on the fourth floor just across the street in the year 2011. They named 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 entire harvests from single farmers has earned it the praise of New York City coffee enthusiasts. 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 hand-picked at their peak ripeness, floated to eliminate any defects, then dry fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry melon and lemongrass.

Sey's dedication extends beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of staff and growers, and customers. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts to keep waste out of landfills and turning it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also does away with gratuity, which puts baristas in a position to support their livelihoods and inspire them to concentrate on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty-coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It began with a tiny store and a team of dedicated employees. Their innovative and honest method of providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not just in their hometown but all over the world.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They scour hundreds of varieties each year in order to find the ones that best match their ideals. They roast them in a very Light Roast Coffee Beans - Trade-Britanica.Trade, style, dialing the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees an enhanced taste and clarity.

The East Village store, which opened in October last year was praised for its premium pour-overs as well as its baked goods, overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and various coffee beans delivery houses.

The shop employs a La Marzocco Modbar as well as the cups, plates and bowls are made by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and son studio in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different coffees per year, and typically has seven or eight coffees available at any given moment.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee roasts and brews the coffee on site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your requirements in less than a second. It searches the world for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced to give customers the option of the option of choice and quality.

Their roaster on site is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from the traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around a heated box by high-velocity air which keeps the beans suspended and allows them to be roasted at a consistent rate as they travel through the machine.

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

The coffee that has been roasted is transported to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing equipment and the coffee is brewed according to your preferences in just a few minutes. Customers can select from nine single origin selections and a wide range of blends.

Parlor coffee bean suppliers

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single group espresso machine. It has since grown into a flourishing coffee roastery, whose coffeee beans are sold in top cafes, restaurants, and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the highest-quality beans, which have gone through a long journey before arriving at its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as "passionate about the craft and believe that a good cup of coffee should be available to everyone," have created a environment that is simple with chalkboards, compost bins, recycled handmade products, and minimal decor.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins, however they also hold cuppings on Sundays that are accessible to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area where you can smell and taste the beans that are ground. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). It's a little off the beaten track, but it's worth the drive.