• Hildegarde@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As others have reccomended here, get a filter thing, or a cold brew maker. It doesn’t make the brew better, but it makes cleanup so much easier. Which is good if you’re making it regularly.

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    1 year ago

    When I make cold brew I tend to use a filter bag, makes cleanup a lot easier. While I would love to go on a tangent about sourcing local specialty coffee & grinding just to your dose to keep your beans fresh, those don’t matter quite as much for cold brew as they do for espresso & pour over. What really matters is if you enjoy the end result, so if there’s anything that you don’t particularly enjoy about your cold brew you can determine the root cause & adjust accordingly.

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      1 year ago

      +1 for a filter bag, it’s made it so much easier. Also don’t forget to dilute it! That’s basically coffee concentrate right there lol

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      1 year ago

      Any recommendations on filters or filter bags? I’ve only got drip coffee filters which certainly won’t do the trick.

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        If you’ve got drip coffee filters, I would just pour the final brew through a drip coffee brewer and into another vessel (provided that you have a large enough brewer). It might take a bit longer than the steel filters, but the resulting cold brew is extremely clean tasting and you won’t have to buy an additional thing to store.

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        1 year ago

        Pretty much any cloth “cold brew bag” will do. There are metal tea infuser style ones that work as well, but personally I prefer the result from a cloth filter over metal

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    1 year ago

    I use a stainless steel filter with a 100 micron mesh. It drops right into the mason jar for steeping. When it’s ready, I pull out the filter, dump the grounds, rinse it out, and start the next batch. I’ve seen filters with more fine or course meshes, but I find the 100 micron to be good for course-ground coffee, like is typically recommended for a french press.

    Personally I do not make concentrate. I use a smaller amount of grounds to make ready-to-drink cold brew. But you can do it either way.

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    My husband swore off store brand coffee after regularly making cold brew, he could really taste the difference

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      1 year ago

      I have the taste buds of a dead cat, and I figured a test run with cheap coffee wouldn’t kill me

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    No specific recommendations since now it’s all about taste but sharing my recipe in case there’s something in there you want to try

    1. Brew ratio I’ve liked is 10:1, water to very coarsely ground beans.
    2. Careful with the bloom as the gasses can push your lid. I usually bloom about 75% of the water I’m the container for about an hour than add the rest.
    3. Leave to brew for at least 24 hours at room temperature. Stir the grounds a couple times over the 24 hours.
    4. Filter the large grounds out in a steel filter.
    5. Filter in a paper filter to clean up. I use v60 and it’s pretty fine sludge at this point so I go through a couple filters at this point.
    6. Top off with cold water to reach the 10x grounds volume and chill overnight.
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        1 year ago

        Assuming you’re using fresh beans, coffee releases c02 when exposed to water. It’s usually the first step in pourover recipes and you can usually see it pretty dramatically.

        Not the best example, but a quick search found this video with a good enough visual: (https://youtu.be/sM3cB0i6ZZU&t=1m50s)

        The bloom for cold brew is just to prevent the gasses popping on your lid if you try to close it too early or overflowing. If you fill the jar with your coffee, then all the way to the top with your water, this blooming phase will spill over water and most likely the crust of all the coffee that hasn’t saturated and sunk to the bottom yet. No good. The hour I have in my recipe is definitely overkill but it’s just an easy (and lazy) easy unit of measurement to call out.

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    Eyy, hannafrids store brand! Love that shit and the price is great! Hello fellow northern New Englander

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        I worked at both back in the day. Always preferred the hannies store brand stuff even though it was more expensive.

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            You could also look for dented cans at market basket a while back and they would charge you 50% off but i think this is gone since youre not technically supposed to eat from dented cans lol

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    Use a dark roast.

    Even if you don’t like dark roasts in hot coffee, cold brew is a lot less bitter.