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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops If you're an avid coffee drinker, you should visit a coffee shop. These stores offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all over the world. They also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other products. Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Others sell large quantities of coffee beans at their retail stores. Porto Rico Importing Co. Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews as well as a range of loose teas The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air as you enter this West Village shop. Open sacks of dark-brown beans line the shelves, along with jars of sugar coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories. Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increasing number of Italian immigrants who opened businesses to cater to their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the famous Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) – a beverage so popular that even the Pope consumed it. Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. The company also roasts their own beans and offers wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn. Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. He continues to operate the shop in the same way as his father and grandfather. Sey Coffee Sey Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster, is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This Brooklyn neighborhood, in the Bushwick district is located on Grattan Street. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33, started roasting in a fourth-floor loft located across the street at their new location in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler). Sey's decision to buy micro-lots or whole harvests, from single farmers has earned it the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. The last time Sey was in the market, he purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The beans were harvested when they were ripe and then floated to eliminate any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a blend that is fragrant with hints of the melon and berry. Sey's commitment to holistically improving the well-being of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the walls of the shop. It utilizes composts and biodegradable disposables in order to ensure that waste is kept out of landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also nourish the soil. It also does away with gratuity, a move that puts baristas into a position to help sustain their livelihoods and inspire them to concentrate on their art. La Cabra La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was established in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a team of dedicated employees. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing a unique coffee experience has earned their acclaim not just in their hometown however, but across the globe. La Carba follows a strict method to select their best beans. Coffeee scour hundreds of varieties every year to find beans that meet their ideals. They roast them lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees more clarity and a better taste. The East Village store, which was opened in October of last year was praised for its premium pour-overs as well as its baked goods, overseen and managed by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and various coffee houses. The shop employs the La Marzocco Modbar as well as 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 per day, and has usually seven or eight different varieties available at any time. The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts its own coffee and brews to order with every cup of coffee being roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than a minute. It searches countries far and across the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans that are directly sourced providing customers with 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 many UK coffee shops. The beans are blown into a heated box with high-velocity and circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a consistent roasting rate. I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was very rich with a velvety mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was present and the coffee started to cool while you sipped, subtle flavours of citrus fruit were detected. The roasted coffee will be whisked into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origins as well as several blends. Parlor Coffee Founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop equipped with a single-group espresso machine, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans can be found in top restaurants, cafes and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the highest-quality beans, which have all undergone a long journey before they reach its roasters. The owners, who are self-described as “passionate about their craft and believe that a good cup of coffee should be accessible to all,” have created a space that is grounded and has chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and low-frills decor. They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six when I was there) They also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room for breweries. You can smell and taste the ground beans, from chocolaty to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten track and is worth a visit.