Cold Brew Coffee

[Scottland]

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?

 

[Scottland]

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!

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.

Looks quite interesting, might be a good alternative to the V60 for work.

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.

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.

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).

 

[Scottland]

I just use a 1:8 ratio, so 100g coffee to 800g/ml water. How did it fail exactly?

 

[Scottland]

Wouldn't mind trying Nitro, but haven't seen it anywhere yet.

 

[Scottland]

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.