Cold Brew Coffee

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With the weather improving, I'm finding I'm drinking a lot more iced tea and coffee - I couldn't see any other threads on the subject.

I've made 'iced' coffee for years using Espresso and Milk, but this is the first year I've tried and made my own cold brew.

At the moment I'm using a 1:4 ratio, and diluting with either water or milk. For larger batches I've just brewed in a large jug and filtered by a V60. However for smaller batches the Aeropress is great for ~200ml of concentrate brewed overnight.

Would like to try cold brew using a decaf blend next week, as it's pretty high in caffeine with it having such a long brew time.


Any other cold brew advocates?
 
I like a good cold brew. Doin't have any on the go at the moment. The fridge is too full and we're not getting the large fridge for another couple of weeks. I use a Bruer for my cold brew. Original model, not the new version. Kickstarter is an interesting environment for coffee geeks like me.

60g of coffee - 550g water 100g ice and about 9 hours. Drink it straight with ice if necessary. Bottled and it keeps for a few days in the fridge.

I have iced espresso in the past, but that's not great tbh. I've done the Kinder jar with coffee and water and then leave sealed for a few hours too then run through a V60. That worked ok and was cheap.

But on kickstarter at the moment is something that looks good for both hot and cold brew. The Cafflano Kompact.

I'm a backer already, but as an owner of their first project - the Cafflano Klassic I feel pretty good about backing this. Saw it at the London Coffee Festival this year too. Looks very interesting indeed. Aeropress style without the likelihood of my tipping the cup over when pressing down. ;)

One of the comments mentions their cold brew method.

You can put ground beans into Cafflano® Kompact and add room temperature or cold water.
Close the airlock cap and leave it for minimum 5 hours. How long you brew beans is the key factor for the taste of coffee, but weight of beans, volume of water and etc. are the factors as well.
You will have to try different recipes to figure out what's the best solution for you.
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I just put 4 spoons of coffee in 500ml jug, put a load of milk in, then a little hot water to help dissolve, then rest with filtered water. Then to serve, pour in to glass, add condense milk, then ice. :D

I have tried with fresh ground coffee before, but prefer ice coffee with instant, seems to make it better imo. I'll keep my beans for proper coffee.
 
Managed to get my ratios a little mixed up later on Friday and ended up a little light headed on a caffeine high - won't be doing that again!


Flibster said:
But on kickstarter at the moment is something that looks good for both hot and cold brew. The Cafflano Kompact.

I'm a backer already, but as an owner of their first project - the Cafflano Klassic I feel pretty good about backing this. Saw it at the London Coffee Festival this year too. Looks very interesting indeed. Aeropress style without the likelihood of my tipping the cup over when pressing down. ;)

One of the comments mentions their cold brew method.
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Looks quite interesting, might be a good alternative to the V60 for work.


Craig321 said:
I just put 4 spoons of coffee in 500ml jug, put a load of milk in, then a little hot water to help dissolve, then rest with filtered water. Then to serve, pour in to glass, add condense milk, then ice. :D

I have tried with fresh ground coffee before, but prefer ice coffee with instant, seems to make it better imo. I'll keep my beans for proper coffee.
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I can imagine iced coffee with milk not too bad using instant, but straight up it doesn't sound appealing. With you on the (sweetened) condensed milk though - a recent discovery of mind but works really well with cold brew or espresso (cafe bombon).
 
I'd never heard of cold brew until a couple of years back, definitely much better than iced coffee.

A friend of mine is very very close (weeks, hopefully) to releasing a cold brew drink. He's the first to do several things with ingredients and production process which results in his beating all his competitors by a large amount during taste tests. He did a "test batch" with 40KG/£400 worth of coffee the other day :eek:.
 
well put my first ever batch on. using a water8:1coffee ratio by volume.
will see how it turns out. can see this being a lot of tweaking to get ratios spot on.
 
first batch failed,
can someone give me an idea of how much coffee (preferably by weight) to put in 2 litres of cold water then leave for 14hours before filtering,
 
One of our vendors has a keg fridge with ice'd nitrogen coffee. It comes out like a guinness..

Interesting taste but I prefer it to go flat before drinking.

Actually I don't mind cold coffee that's just gone cold - especially from french press.
 
At the risk of a holy thread revival...

I am just starting a cold coffee routine - I brewed the first lot for 24 hours, just by putting some rough ground beans in a thermos and adding cold water, I left it on the back of the sink and it was pretty good.

I am now doing two lots with 500ml of water. The first batch brewed for 24 hours via the same method and a second batch brewed for 48 hours to see what difference there is in result.

I am brewing at room temperature currently - Has anyone experimented with different ambient temperatures? I assume that at different temperatures different chemicals are going to infuse but advice would be awesome.
 
i didn't have much success st time, to much effort and wek product, however just ordered a all in one cold brewer which will make life much easier. most places recommend 12-24hrs in the fridge, so 48hrs at room temperature sounds insane. But as i say i'm a n00b who failed last time.
 
Will be interested in this thread, got a Hario Mizudashi for Christmas.


(they seem to have revised it since this video as the coffee basket has an unscrewable bottom for cleaning)
 
I found in the end I preferred brewing directly onto ice (v60 into a jug of ice). Ok, so not technically cold brew, but offers most of the flavour/taste of cold brew but much more convenient to make.
 
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