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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a gourmet coffee beans connoisseur, then you will want to go to the shops selling coffee beans. These shops offer a broad selection of whole beans from all over the world. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware and other products.

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

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

As you enter this traditional West Village shop, the aroma of freshly roasted beans fills your nose. Unopened bags of dark brown beans line the shelves, along with sugar jars coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories.

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing a surge of Italian immigrants, who opened businesses in order to meet their dietary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so well-known in the present, that even the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including beans from all over the world, at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico also roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to run the business in the same manner like his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee shop and roaster located on Grattan Street, in Morgantown. This neighborhood in Brooklyn's Bushwick district is situated on Grattan Street. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in a fourth-floor loft around the corner from their new store in 2011 under the name Lofted Luxury Coffee Beans (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's preference for buying micro-lots, or even entire harvests, from single farmers has earned it the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In 2011, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito Santa region. The beans were carefully picked at peak ripeness, floated to remove defects, then dry fermented for a period of 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend with hints of berry and melon.

Sey's dedication to holistically improving the health of staff, growers and customers extends beyond the shop. It uses composts and biodegradable disposables to ensure that waste is kept out of the landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases as well as nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, which puts baristas in a position to support their livelihoods and motivate them to concentrate on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was established in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a dedicated staff. Their innovative and honest approach to providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a devoted following not just in their home town, but worldwide.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to identify their ideal beans. They go through hundreds of lots each year in order to find beans that meet their ideals. They then roast them very lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This results in an enhanced taste and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek minimalist design, and has been praised by global coffee aficionados for its exacting pour overs and baked goods that are overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop employs a La Marzocco Modbar and the cups plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father and son studio located in Horsens. In a recent Q&A interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different types of coffees each year, and usually has seven or eight different varieties available at any given moment.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer that roasts its own coffee and brews to order, with every cup of coffee being roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than one minute. It searches the globe for the highest-grade specialty beans that are directly sourced providing customers with the option of choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster uses fluid bed technology which is quite different from the drum-type machines that are commonly used in most expensive coffee beans UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around a heated box by high-velocity air, which keeps the green beans in suspension and allows them to be roasted at a consistent rate when they pass through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was very rich with an enveloping mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were present and the coffee started to cool as you sip the coffee. The subtle scents of citrus fruit were evident.

The coffee is then be taken to the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines to be brewed according your preferences within less than a minute. Customers can choose from nine single origin options and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, using a single espresso machine. It has since evolved into a flourishing coffee roastery, whose beans are available in top cafes, restaurants, and home brewers in every city. Parlor Coffee is committed to sourcing the highest quality beans that have been through a lengthy journey before reaching its roasters.

According to their own words, they "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be accessible to anyone." They do just that by creating a simple space on a residential street--think compost bins, chalkboard welcome, handmade up-cycled products and a simple deco.

They roast and make 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 brewery tasting room, where you can smell and taste the ground beans. They vary from earthy to chocolaty (one was almost like tomato!). It's a little away from the main roads, but worth the journey.