Results of the cold brew coffee experiment

Published: August 25, 2007, 8:11 am

Tags: cold brew coffee, coldbrewcoffee, gold mesh coffee filter, iced coffee

Filed under: Coffee, How ToSo I've done two days of cold brew coffee now, and I am here to say that I love the coffee it produces. It is so smooth and nearly sweet tasting. I grind a up a full grinder of beans, trying to keep the grinding time as brief as possible (the finer the grind, the harder it is to strain out the grounds from the mix). I dump the grounds into a wide mouth quart jar and fill it up the rest of the way with filtered water (you could use straight tap water if yours tastes good). I stir to combine, put a lid on the jar (I use these nifty plastic ones as they are much more leak-proof) and let it sit overnight. The next morning when I get up, I strain it through a regular sieve and then through a reusable gold mesh coffee filter. There's still a little bit of fine coffee grind at the bottom that I could get rid of if I used a paper filter, but it seems good enough to me without taking that extra step. It's definitely no worse than when you make coffee with a

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