How to Make Cold Brew Coffee at Home: A Super Simple Method for Delicious Cold Brew Coffee

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In hot weather, iced coffee becomes the first choice for many people. There are many ways to make iced coffee, such as iced pour-over coffee, iced drip coffee, iced Americano, and iced latte served in coffee shops. But what should you do if you want to drink delicious and rich iced coffee at home? Today, I'll teach you an ultra-simple way to make refreshing and rich cold brew coffee at home.

What is Cold Brew Coffee?

Cold brew coffee is also a type of coffee extracted with ice-cold water. Like iced drip coffee, it has a long production cycle and is very time-consuming. However, unlike iced drip coffee, which uses ice water droplets to extract coffee flavor, cold brew coffee uses ice water immersion to extract coffee flavor.

Since low-temperature immersion doesn't easily extract large molecular flavor compounds (bitter, rich flavors), if you use medium-dark roast coffee beans to make cold brew, the final product might lack a rich mouthfeel. Therefore, FrontStreet Coffee recommends using beans with prominent flavors or medium-light to medium roast beans with sweet and sour characteristics for making cold brew coffee.

For example, FrontStreet Coffee's "Ethiopia Sidamo Guji Coffee Bean" retains the coffee's unique and rich mixed berry acidity through medium-light roasting. When made into cold brew coffee, it presents the full sweet and sourness of compound berry juice, the fermented aroma of gentle fruit wine, and the aftertaste of black tea.

Another example is FrontStreet Coffee's "Honduras Sherry Coffee Bean," where barrel fermentation processing combined with medium roasting preserves the coffee's wine aroma while stimulating more caramel fragrance. When made into cold brew coffee, it presents the aroma of sherry wine, the sweet fragrance of vanilla cream, a smooth mouthfeel, and a lingering finish of nutty chocolate.

Long-term extraction at low temperatures can fully release the sweet and sour flavors from coffee beans while controlling the release of bitter compounds. Compared to high-temperature pour-over coffee, cold brew coffee presents fuller flavors and a cleaner mouthfeel.

How to Simply Make Delicious Cold Brew Coffee at Home?

Making cold brew coffee is very simple, and you don't need to be too particular about the tools. All you need is a clean, sealable container to make it.

The grind size for cold brew coffee can be the same as pour-over coffee (fine sugar granule size). If you don't have a grinder at home, you can go to a coffee shop and ask the owner to grind it for you, or ask the coffee bean seller to grind it for you. Currently, all coffee beans sold by FrontStreet Coffee are shipped within 5 days after roasting, defaulting to whole beans, with packaging ensuring 100% freshness. Friends in need can also add a note for "cold brew grind" when placing an order.

When making cold brew coffee, you can choose 40 grams of coffee powder with 520 milliliters of room temperature/ice water for drinking, with a coffee-to-water ratio of 1:13. Then stir well to ensure full contact between coffee powder and water, seal the bottle, and place it in the refrigerator's cooling compartment for 8 to 12 hours of low-temperature extraction.

When time is up, take it out and filter the coffee liquid through a coffee dripper with filter paper or a high-density mesh filter, and the cold brew coffee is ready. The process is simple, requires minimal technical skills, has a high tolerance for error, and can easily produce delicious iced coffee.

Can Cold Brew Coffee Be Extracted at Room Temperature? How Long Can It Be Stored?

Cold brew coffee is not recommended for room temperature extraction. Cold brew extraction should be done in the refrigerator's cooling compartment. After extraction and filtering, the coffee liquid can be refrigerated for up to 72 hours.

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