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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops If you're a coffee connoisseur You'll want to try out a coffee shop. They offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all across the globe. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other things. Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others offer the beans in bulk at their retail locations. Porto Rico Importing Co. Veteran coffee shop that specialises in international brews loose teas and a variety. The aroma of freshly roasted beans fills the air as you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are lined with jars and sacks filled with dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories and sugar. Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an large influx of Italian immigrants who opened businesses to meet their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the renowned Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) – – a drink that was so popular that even the Pope drank 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. Porto Rico also roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn. Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the business was raised on the top floor of the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He runs the business in the same way as his father and grandfather. Sey Coffee It is located on Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a coffee shop and roaster. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 began roasting in a fourth-floor loft just around the corner 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 commitment to buying micro-lots or whole harvests, from single farmers has earned him the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In the past they made a 6-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, then floated to get rid of any imperfections and dried fermented for about 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee that is a little melons and berries. Sey's commitment extends beyond its shop to improve the overall health of growers and staff, as well as its customers. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, keeping waste out of landfills and converting it to substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This lets baristas concentrate on their work and support their livelihoods. 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 honest and creative approach to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience has earned them a following, not just in their own town, but globally. La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, searching through hundreds of different varieties every year to locate the ones that fit their ideals. They then roast them very lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This results in clearer and more vibrant taste. The East Village store opened last October with a sleek minimalist design. It's been praised by international coffee lovers for its meticulous 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 uses the La Marzocco Modbar and the cups, plates and bowls are made 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 A multi-unit coffee retailer, roasts and brews coffee on-site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your requirements in less than a second. It searches the world far for the finest quality, directly sourced specialty beans that offer customers a variety and high-quality. Their on-site roaster is a fluid bed machine, that is distinct from the traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown about in a heated container by high-speed air, which keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner as they move through the machine. I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was rich with smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were present and the coffee started to cool as you sip delicate citrus flavours fruit were evident. coffeee beans Coffeee that has been roasted will be transferred to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines and brewed according your preferences in under a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins as well as several blends. Parlor Coffee Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop using a single espresso machine. It has since developed to become a burgeoning roastery, and its beans can be found in a variety of great cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers in every city. Parlor Coffee is committed to procuring the highest-quality beans, which have been through a lengthy journey before arriving at its roasters. In their own words, they “have an unrelenting love of craft and believe that good coffee should be available to anyone.” They do just this with their earthy streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, chalkboards, handmade up-cycled products and a simple deco. They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins. However, they also have cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting area—you can taste and smell the ground beans. They vary from earthy to chocolaty (one was similar to tomato!). It's a little off the beaten track, but worth the journey.