Cold-Brewed Coffee

"A friend just gave me this recipe and I made it up as an alternative for our workday morning coffee. Although it's recommended for iced coffee, it works equally well for hot coffee -- and it's EXTREMELY easy to put together in the morning, since you don't have to fuss with equipment or with cleaning. My husband's view (he's the coffee drinker in the family) was that it made very good hot coffee, but GREAT iced coffee."
 
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Ready In:
12hrs 5mins
Ingredients:
2
Serves:
2
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ingredients

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directions

  • Stir together the coffee grounds and water.
  • Cover and let sit overnight.
  • Strain through cheesecloth or a fine mesh strainer. Strain 2-3 times to remove grounds and silt.
  • This creates a concentrate; to dilute to appropriate proportions, add one part water to one part coffee (i.e., use 1/2 cup coffee concentrate and 1/2 cup water). Add water or coffee concentrate to adjust to your personal tastes.
  • For hot coffee, put it in the microwave for 1-2 minutes.
  • For iced coffee, refrigerate and serve over ice.

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Reviews

  1. Followed instructions exactly, very simple! But it turned out a bit too weak for my liking. I'll try it again with less water dilution.
     
  2. Thanks for posting this! I love making this at home without having to buy a Toddy container. I'm always shocked when people haven't tried cold-brew yet, yum!
     
  3. This recipe made a fantastic glass of iced coffee!! We prefer stronger coffee...and this works very well! Thank you!
     
  4. Wow! This is unbelievably good! I think I found the new way I'm going to be making coffee from now on. No bitterness at all, very smooth. I haven't tried it hot yet but iced is delicious!
     
  5. Cold brewed coffee is wonderful! By cold brewing, about 1/3 of the caffeine is eliminated, and 2/3 of the acids. It makes preparing a cup off coffee (hot or cold) as simple as instant, with fresh brewed flavor. I have been cold-brewing for a long time, and know folks who have done so for over 30 years. HOWEVER, while it can be done this way, it is really messy and time consuming to get the coffee filtered. I find it much easier to use one of the cold brewing systems available for about $35. Two that I know of are Toddy Coffee, and Filtron. You can search the net for cold brew coffee and find what is available out there. You can also get coffee recipes there! Excellent idea to post this, KLH!
     
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