Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee beans online connoisseur and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to try out the shops selling coffee beans. These shops sell a range of whole beans from all over the world. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other products.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell the beans in Bulk buy coffee Beans at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

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

The scent of freshly roasted beans fills the air as you enter this West Village shop. Open bags of dark-brown beans line the shelves alongside jars of sugar as well as coffee-making equipment and tea accessories.

The first restaurant opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an increase in Italian immigrants who set up businesses to serve their culinary requirements. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so famous that at the time, even the Pope would drink it.

Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including those from around the globe at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market, and online. The company also 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. He still runs the shop in the same fashion as his father did and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

It is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a roaster and coffee shop. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33, started 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 reliance on micro-lots -- or even whole harvests from single farmers been praised by discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai, a Brazilian coffee from the Espirito-Santo region. The beans were handpicked at their peak ripeness, floated to remove defects and dried fermented for a period of 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a coffee that is a little berry and melon.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall wellbeing of staff and farmers, as well as its customers. It utilizes composts and biodegradable products to keep waste from the garbage dumps. This helps to reduce greenhouse gases as well as nourish the soil. It also reduces gratuity. This allows baristas to focus on their craft and earn a living.

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 team of dedicated employees.tried the Sumatran coffee and it was delicious with a an enveloping mouthfeel, dark chocolate scent was present and the coffee started to cool down as you sipped, subtle flavours of citrus fruit were evident.

The coffee that has been roasted is whisked to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing machines and brewed to your specification in under a minute. Customers can pick from a variety of single origins and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 in a barbershop with a single group espresso machine. It has since evolved into a flourishing coffee roastery, and its beans are sold in top cafes, restaurants, and home brewers all over the city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the highest-quality beans, that have gone through a long journey before they reach its roasters.

According to their own words according to their own words, they "have an unstoppable passion for craft and believe that good coffee beans near me should be available to anyone." They do just that by creating a simple street space, which includes compost bins, a chalkboard welcome handmade up-cycled products, and a minimalist deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins, however they also hold cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Think of it as a brewery tasting room--you can smell and taste the ground beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten track and well worth a trip.