Step-by-Step Guide: How to Make Cold Brew Coffee

It's Here! The Highly Anticipated Cold Brew Coffee Method!

Cold brew coffee — loved for its naturally sweet, gently fermented flavor, yet often skipped because of its premium price tag. Now you can make it at home! The method is astonishingly simple. Straight to the step-by-step visual guide!

Step 1: Prepare Your Container

First, get a cold brew bottle. Don't have one? No worries — any airtight container will do. No airtight container either? Still fine: use any glass and cover it with plastic wrap!

Step 2: Select and Grind Your Coffee Beans

Pick a single origin you like and grind it. (For this batch, FrontStreet Coffee used 50g of the Costa Rican Mozart, ground on an EK43s at a cold brew setting of 9 marks. Adjust for your own grinder and how your beans are behaving that day!)

Step 3: Combine Coffee and Water

Pour the ground coffee into the built-in filter of your cold brew maker and add room-temperature purified water. (We're using a 1:12 ratio — 50g of coffee to 600ml of water. Adjust to taste. Make sure the water level fully immerses all the grounds.)

Step 4: Cold Brew for 8 Hours

Tighten the lid and refrigerate for 8 hours. (Important: refrigerate — do not freeze!)

Step 5: Filter the Cold Brew

After 8 hours, take it out of the refrigerator and filter it for a cleaner taste.

Step 6: Final Filtering and Serving

One more pass through a paper filter and it's ready to drink! Add ice for an even better cup~

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FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Cold brew amplifies floral and fruit notes while taming woody and roast flavors, so light-to-medium roasts work best. These FrontStreet Coffee beans are made for the fridge:

FrontStreet Strawberry Candy Gesha Blend — Panama Gesha for delicate rose and orange, Costa Rica honey process for grape, dried blueberry, and strawberry-gummy sweetness. As cold brew it's sweet-tart and lively — and if you let it rest and settle a little longer, it takes on a wine-like character.

FrontStreet Natural Guji Huakui — Because the beans dry inside the fruit, they absorb abundant sweet aromatics. Cold brewed, this natural Ethiopian shows magnolia, creamy strawberry, dried mango, guava, and black tea in one layered, fragrant glass — a must if you love floral iced coffee.

FrontStreet Kenya "Cherry Tomato" — For maximum juice: cherry tomato, snow pear, black plum, and dried plum turn vivid under cold extraction, low in bitterness with full acidity. From Thika at 1,550–1,750 meters on SL28 and SL34, processed with the local K72 double-wash fermentation and roasted medium-light — wonderful over ice.

FrontStreet Yirgacheffe Guodingding Cooperative — The budget-friendly all-rounder: washed Yirgacheffe's clean, bright sweet-tart acidity works in pour-over, siphon, French press, and cold brew alike. Cold brewed, it delivers sweet berry notes, layered flavors, and honeyed depth — the natural first choice for home brewers.