Concentrated Iced Coffee

UnknownDonut

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Looking to grab some concentrated iced coffee.


I’m usually more of a hot coffee person, but I tried a free sample of Starbucks Caramel Cold Brew and actually really liked it.


Any recommendations for something that tastes good and doesn’t cost a fortune ?
 
 
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Raymond Lin said:
Just make cold brew at home. This will be fine. Makes about 4 cups..or 2 big mugs.

scoop ground coffee into it, add water, wait 24hrs in the fridge.

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Thanks Raymond,
Any particular ground coffee you think is great ?
so would I just add flavoured syrup to this, or would the cost of buying syrup mean I might as well buy a flavoured concentrated cold brew ?
 
UnknownDonut said:
Thanks Raymond,
Any particular ground coffee you think is great ?
so would I just add flavoured syrup to this, or would the cost of buying syrup mean I might as well buy a flavoured concentrated cold brew ?
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The good thing about cold brew method is that it can "hide" bad coffee, so I almost always use my worse beans in it, so start with your go to supermarket beans or grounds, and go from there. Seeing you are adding sugar and milk, which will mask it even more so it really doesn't make sense spending lots on the coffee.

When you drink it, just pour, add your milk and sugar like you just made a hot coffee. No need to add more water.

But when you fill it with grounds at the start, don't fill it to the brim, leave the top 20% free so it has space to move around.

As for syrup, surely you just need like a tea spoon or so per cup, and a 750ml will last absolutely ages? Plus a bottled syrup has a much longer shelf life in a cupboard vs pre mix concentrated cold brew.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
The good thing about cold brew method is that it can "hide" bad coffee, so I almost always use my worse beans in it, so start with your go to supermarket beans or grounds, and go from there. Seeing you are adding sugar and milk, which will mask it even more so it really doesn't make sense spending lots on the coffee.

When you drink it, just pour, add your milk and sugar like you just made a hot coffee. No need to add more water.

But when you fill it with grounds at the start, don't fill it to the brim, leave the top 20% free so it has space to move around.

As for syrup, surely you just need like a tea spoon or so per cup, and a 750ml will last absolutely ages? Plus a bottled syrup has a much longer shelf life in a cupboard vs pre mix concentrated cold brew.
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That's some great advice, cheers Raymond

I'll give this a go, I'm thinking of taking a litre flask to work, bypass the bitter awful vending machine coffee.
 
UnknownDonut said:
That's some great advice, cheers Raymond

I'll give this a go, I'm thinking of taking a litre flask to work, bypass the bitter awful vending machine coffee.
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There are other cold brew jugs out there if you want bigger capacity. I would work out the size of your flask and then get one that can make at least 2 flasks at 1 time.

After 24hrs, you and pour it all out, put half into your work flask, then the other half into another container or simply a pint glass (cling film on top) and leave that in the fridge for the day after. They keep day a few days no problem.

Then start a new batch in the cold brew jug for day 3/4. If you have a large enough bold brew jug then you only need to make 2 batches per week, as opposed to daily.

 
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I make iced coffee everyday the simple way:

2 teaspoons of instant coffee
1 teaspoon of raw sugar
½ cup of hot water
600ml of cold milk.

It tastes ok.
 
After having a McD iced latte a while back during one of the summer days I have been making them regular at home, pint glass loaded with ice cubes, half full with milk, then a double expresso from the machine and some brown sugar stirred in, add to the pint glass and then top off with more milk, very refreshing and easy to make, drunk through a straw :D
 
I use both the concentrate and my Nespresso pods for ice coffee.

I actually prefer the concentrate (and it's cheaper than Nespresso!)

I like the Vanilla one from Nestle.
 
My wife moved over from USA where getting bottles of ready to go iced coffe/cold brew are large volume and plentiful in the supermarkets. It's not the same over here but it seems to be growing, there's now quite a wide selection of them in Tesco now.

We started off with the Tesco Finest unsweetened cold brew, which is decent. The recipe for quantities works well and gives a good coffee flavour.

We tried the Nescafé espresso concentrate next, but the recipe on the bottle isn't great for a good cup. 150ml of milk to 30ml of concentrate does not yield good coffee results. We ended up doubling it at least.

After looking up the options (I made a spreadsheet to compare) we've more recently been buying the cartons of Grind Espresso Cold Brew. It has a decent quantity of coffee-water, and no added ingredients. The Nescafé one has a couple of additives. The ratio on the recipe works well and tastes good. Works out at lower price per coffee compared to Tesco Finest.

If only we could get 1.5l bottles like they have in the USA. :D Although it would need more room in the fridge.
www.stokbrew.com

STōK Unsweetened Black Cold Brew Coffee

For those who like their Unsweetened Cold Brew black and their dreams in color: no cream, no sugar, Arabica based beans and our low & slow process is pure STōK.
www.stokbrew.com www.stokbrew.com
 
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