Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a fan of coffee and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to go to a coffee bean shop (ozsever.com.tr). These shops offer a variety of whole beans from around the globe. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware and other items.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops sell the beans in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews and a variety of loose teas

The scent of freshly roasted 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 tea-making equipment, coffee accessories, and sugar.

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 increasing number of Italian immigrants who had opened businesses to cater to their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the well-known Puerto Rican coffee beans to buy she imported (and sold) - a beverage that was so popular at the time that even the Pope was a fan.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, which includes beans from all over the world at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts its own coffeee beans and offers 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 was the owner of Porto Rico. The owner continues to run the business in the same way like his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Sey Coffee, a coffee roaster and shop, is located along Grattan Street, in Morgantown. The neighborhood, which is part of Brooklyn's Bushwick district is situated on Grattan Street. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders of 33 years, began roasting coffee in a loft on the fourth floor, just across the street, in the year 2011. They dubbed it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's reliance on micro-lots -- or even whole harvests from single farmers earned it the acclaim of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year they made a 6-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were harvested when they were ripe and steamed to remove any defects. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup with hints of the melon and berry.

Sey's focus on holistically improving the health of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the shop. It makes use of composts and biodegradable disposables in order to keep waste from landfills. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases as well as nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, a move that puts baristas in a position to help sustain their livelihoods and motivate them to concentrate on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee brand, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. The company started with a modest 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 only in their local area, but worldwide.

La Carba has a rigorous process to find their perfect beans, scouring through hundreds of different lots every year to locate the ones that fit their ideals. They roast them light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more intense flavor and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October, with a minimalist and sleek design, and has been praised worldwide by coffee aficionados for its exacting 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 is equipped with a La Marzocco modbar, and the cups and plates are designed by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, the son and father studio. In a recent interview Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different coffees a yea, and has usually seven or eight coffees available at any given time.

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 roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than one minute. It searches the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans that are sourced directly, giving customers choices and high-quality.

Their onsite roaster uses fluid bed technology that is a bit different to the classic drum-type machines used in the majority of UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around in the heated box by high-speed 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 smooth mouthfeel, dark chocolate aroma was present, and the strong coffee beans began to cool while you sipped delicate citrus flavours fruit were evident.

The roasted coffee beans near me will be whisked into the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines and brewed according to your specifications in under a minute. Customers can select from a selection of nine single origin choices and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop with a single-group espresso machine, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans are sold at top cafes, restaurants and home brewers all over the city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the highest-quality beans, that have been through a lengthy journey before arriving at its roasters.

In their own words the owners "have an unrelenting love of craft and a conviction that good coffee should be accessible to anyone." They accomplish that by creating a simple space on a residential street--think compost bins, a chalkboard welcome, handmade up-cycled products and a simple deco.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six at the time I was there), but they also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting room, where you can taste and smell the ground beans. They vary from earthy to chocolaty (one was almost like tomato!). They're away from the main roads, but it's worth the trip.