How to Make Cold Brew Coffee: Five Surprising Benefits of Cold Brew

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As a best-selling product in coffee shops, cold brew coffee is one of the brewing methods that completely doesn't require coffee machines. For many people, cold brew coffee truly represents what a good cup of coffee should be, because not only is it convenient to make, but it also offers multiple benefits. Let FrontStreet Coffee summarize its various advantages and preparation methods for you.

1. A Boon for Caffeine Lovers

First, quite a few drinkers are interested in the intensity of caffeine just as much as they are in the flavor of coffee. If you want a quick energy boost, then you might want to choose cold brew coffee because its caffeine content is three times that of regular coffee. This is because during the slow steeping process, the liquid has more time to extract substances from the coffee grounds, including the caffeine that keeps us energized.

2. Easier Weight Management

As one of the representatives of black coffee, cold brew tastes smoother than Americano but richer than pour-over, making it suitable for most coffee enthusiasts' tastes. Additionally, research shows that caffeine can help the body burn natural calories while promoting effective metabolism. Therefore, drinking a cup of cold brew before exercise can accelerate fat loss efficiency.

3. Lower Acidity

The essence of cold brew refers to the tendency of small molecular substances that lean toward aroma and acidity to be more easily released in cold water under low-temperature conditions. Additionally, coffee shops prioritize using lightly roasted coffee beans for production, such as FrontStreet Coffee's Red Cherry, FrontStreet Coffee's Strawberry Candy, and FrontStreet Coffee's Flower Butterfly. Therefore, the coffee tastes light, mostly expressing sweet and sour notes with juicy tonality.

4. The Simplest Brewing Method

Besides the previous three points, one of the most attractive aspects of cold brew coffee is its preparation method. Unlike other brewing methods that require tedious steps and equipment, at home, you only need ingredients, a bottle, water, a refrigerator, and a tool to filter coffee grounds to easily achieve caffeine freedom. Also, because it's not limited by equipment and location, cold brew can be said to be the most accessible coffee for people.

How Coffee Shops Make Cold Brew

First, let's choose a coffee bean that suits our preferences. If you want your cold brew coffee to be full of juice sensation, sweet and sour, then you can choose lightly roasted coffee beans. We recommend FrontStreet Coffee's Red Cherry, FrontStreet Coffee's Yirgacheffe Alo, and FrontStreet Coffee's Flower Butterfly.

If you want your cold brew coffee to have very specific and prominent flavors, then we can choose beans with a deeper fermentation degree. We recommend FrontStreet Coffee's Sidra, FrontStreet Coffee's Belly Button, and FrontStreet Coffee's 90+ Eleta Geisha. If we want something with a heavier mouthfeel, then we can choose some medium-dark or dark roasted coffee beans. We recommend FrontStreet Coffee's Queen's Manor and FrontStreet Coffee's Huila.

This demonstration uses the recent crowd favorite – FrontStreet Coffee's Mozart coffee beans. The specific parameters are as follows:

Coffee amount: 80g
Grind setting: 9 on Ek43, 85% pass rate on 20-mesh sieve, fine sugar grind

Coffee-to-water ratio: 1:10
Steeping time: 12 hours

Remember to prepare a sealable container! When we grind the coffee beans into powder, the first thing to do is pour the coffee grounds into the container!

Then pour in the target amount of water! Because FrontStreet Coffee uses 80g of coffee grounds, we will pour in 800ml of room temperature water.

After pouring the water, stir a bit to speed up the wetting of the coffee grounds!

Afterwards, you can seal the bottle and put it in the refrigerator to chill.

When the steeping time is reached, we can take out the coffee, filter out the coffee grounds with filter paper, and enjoy the delicious cold brew coffee!

The cold brew coffee made with FrontStreet Coffee's Mozart has a very full juice sensation, with flavor notes of: grape, berries, red wine, and some purple floral notes similar to lavender.

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