Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you’re a coffee connoisseur You’ll want to check out a coffee bean shop. They offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all across the globe. They also offer unique trinkets and kitchenware.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews as well as a range of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air when you walk into this West Village shop. Open bags of dark-brown beans line the shelves alongside sugar jars, coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

In 1907, the first time it was opened, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an influx of Italian immigrants who opened businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold – a drink that was so well-known that at the time, even the Pope would drink 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 roasts its own beans and offers wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the company, grew up above his family’s bakery located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the business in the same way like his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

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 just around the corner at their new location in 2011 under the name Lofted coffee beans bulk buy (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 him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In the past, Sey bought a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were 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 coffee with hints of berry melon and lemongrass.

Sey’s focus on holistically improving the quality of life for employees, customers and growers extends beyond the store. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts to keep waste out of landfills and turning it into substances that help reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts the baristas in a position to sustain their livelihoods and encourage them to focus on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee brand that was established in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a committed team. Their honesty and ingenuity to providing a unique cafe coffee beans experience earned them a following that was not only in their own town but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, going through hundreds of different varieties every year to find ones that match their ideals. They then roast them very lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more vibrant taste and clarity.

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

The shop is equipped with a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates and bowls are crafted by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and son studio in Horsens. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different coffees a year, and usually has seven or eight coffees available at any given point.

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 roasting and brewed to your specifications in less than one minute. It searches countries far and wide for the highest-grade specialty beans, which are directly sourced, offering customers choice and quality.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology that is quite different from the drum-type machines that are commonly used in the majority of UK cheap coffee beans shops. The beans are blown through a heated box with high-velocity air that is circulated. This keeps the beans suspended and allows for a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with an enveloping mouthfeel, dark chocolate aroma was evident and the coffee began to cool as you sipped the coffee. The subtle scents of citrus fruit were detected.

The coffee is then be whisked into the store’s Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines, and brewed to your preferences in under a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as a variety blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor coffee bean shop near me was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, with a single espresso machine. It has since grown into a burgeoning coffee roastery, with beans that can be found in a variety of great cafes, restaurants, and home brewers all over the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the highest quality beans that have all undergone a long journey before they reach its roasters.

The owners, who self-described as “passionate about their craft and believe that good coffee should be accessible to everyone,” have created a space that is down-to earth and has chalkboards, compost bins, recycled handmade items, and simple decor.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six while I was there) They also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Think of it like an artisanal tasting room in which you can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). It’s a bit off the beaten path, but worth the trip.