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What is Cold Brew Coffee?

Friends often ask FrontStreet Coffee: What is cold brew coffee? Is cold brew coffee delicious? Or they come directly to the store and order a cold brew coffee!

However! Cold brew coffee is actually a very broad term. After all, cold brew coffee includes ice-drip coffee, cold brew coffee, and other coffee extracted with non-hot water. Typically, when people refer to cold brew coffee, they're actually talking about cold brew coffee! So how should you make cold brew coffee?

Characteristics of Cold Brew Coffee

Compared to coffee brewed with hot water, cold brew coffee has a softer acidity, with less bitterness and a smoother mouthfeel. You can experience more of the initial aroma, so floral and fruity notes will be more prominent.

Step 1: Weigh the Coffee Beans

First, choose a coffee bean you'd most like to drink, using a 1:13 coffee-to-water ratio. This means if you have 30g of coffee beans, use 390 c.c. of room temperature water. However, this ratio may vary depending on the grinder, water quality, and coffee beans each person uses. You can make slight adjustments according to your own taste preferences.

Step 2: Grind the Coffee

After weighing, grind the coffee beans. You can use the same grind setting as for your regular pour-over coffee. Of course, you can also grind it finer to increase the extraction of delicate aromas, but you must be very careful, because if ground too fine, there's a risk of over-extraction, which might extract more bitter flavors.

Step 3: Fill Tea Bags with Coffee Grounds

Just buy a pack of tea bags from the supermarket or warehouse store, and fill them with coffee grounds—it's very convenient! However, the only thing to note is that tea bags usually don't seal tightly, so the shop owner will wrap the coffee grounds in two tea bags, with the two bags positioned opposite each other. This ensures that when removing the bag, there won't be any concern about coffee grounds falling out.

Step 4: Add Water and Refrigerate for 12 Hours

We've reached the final step. Just find a suitably sized container, drop the tea bag filled with coffee grounds into the container, add room temperature water, then place the container in the refrigerator for 12-14 hours. After that, you can remove the coffee bag and let it sit for a few more hours to ferment and mature, which enhances aroma and reduces astringency before drinking!

In this step, special attention is needed: when removing the coffee bag, do not squeeze it. Excessive squeezing might squeeze out the bitter flavors from the coffee!

Don't you think making a cup of cold brew coffee isn't actually difficult?

Tips for Adjusting Flavor

After you finish drinking your cold brew coffee, you can also adjust the flavor according to your preferences: "If you feel the flavor isn't strong enough, increase the steeping time or grind the coffee finer. But if it has a bitter taste, reduce the steeping time or grind the coffee coarser!"

Of course, besides the grind size and steeping time, factors like water quality and coffee beans also have a significant impact. Therefore, to adjust to your most preferred flavor, you still need to experiment a bit, but this is already much easier than methods like pour-over, ice-drip, or siphon brewing—all you need is a little patience!

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