What Coffee Beans Make Best Cold Brew Coffee: Methods & Single-Origin Bean Recommendations

Cold brew coffee is an incredibly simple brewing method to master. Simply put, cold brew coffee requires just water and coffee grounds—mix them together, seal the container, and let time work its magic in the refrigerator. You can easily make delicious iced coffee at home.

FrontStreet Coffee's Cold Brew Method

FrontStreet Coffee's cold brew method uses 50 grams of coffee grounds as the base, with a grind size where 85% passes through a standard #20 sieve. Place the coffee grounds in a glass bottle, then add 400ml of room temperature water and 200 grams of hard ice cubes (totaling 600 grams of ice-water mixture), achieving a coffee-to-water ratio of 1:12. Stir thoroughly with a stirring rod to mix the coffee grounds and water evenly, then seal and place in the refrigerator.

After 12-24 hours in the refrigerator, filter out the coffee grounds using filter paper to obtain clean coffee liquid. Then transfer the coffee liquid to a clean, sealed bottle and refrigerate for an additional 4 hours before serving.

Recommended Coffee Beans for Cold Brew

Since cold brew coffee extracts flavor through cold water immersion, the coffee grounds themselves have very poor degassing properties. Therefore, we recommend using coffee beans that are further from their roast date (past the degassing period). Generally, coffee beans 15-20 days after roasting are optimal for making cold brew coffee.

FrontStreet Coffee recommends several different flavor profiles of coffee beans for your selection:

① Fresh Floral and Fruity

FrontStreet Coffee recommends the Panama Geisha coffee beans from our selection. For those seeking premium quality, choose FrontStreet Coffee's Finca Lerida Green Label and Blue Label series. For better value, FrontStreet Coffee's Panama Mariposa (a washed coffee containing 70% Geisha) is an excellent choice. When used for cold brew, these beans showcase clean, fresh floral notes, citrus, and oolong tea flavors.

② Citrus and Berry

Ethiopian coffee beans have always been renowned for their excellent citrus and berry fruit notes. If you enjoy sweet fruit flavors, try making cold brew with FrontStreet Coffee's Buku 5.0 coffee beans or FrontStreet Coffee's Natural Red Cherry Project coffee beans. Both are among the highest quality Ethiopian coffees, producing cold brew with very sweet berry notes, layered complexity, and honey flavors.

③ Subtle Honey Aroma

Special anaerobic processed coffee beans offer pleasing and distinctive coffee flavors. If you enjoy sweet floral and fruit aromas with particularly unique berry sweetness, consider FrontStreet Coffee's Colombia Flower Moon Night, FrontStreet Coffee's Colombia Rose Valley, or FrontStreet Coffee's Costa Rica Mozart coffee beans.

FrontStreet Coffee's Colombia Flower Moon Night is an anaerobic natural processed coffee bean from the El Obispo farm. When used for cold brew, it displays flavors of strawberry jam, chocolate liqueur, and cream, with a very rich and comfortable mouthfeel.

FrontStreet Coffee's Colombia Rose Valley is a double anaerobic enzyme processed coffee bean from the La Granja estate. When used for cold brew, it reveals flavors of rose, peach, and honey.

FrontStreet Coffee's Costa Rica Mozart is one of the Musicians Series from the Hacienda La Candela estate, processed using anaerobic honey methods. When used for cold brew, it presents flavors of raisin, fermented wine notes, and osmanthus.

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