Cold brew coffee

Coffee

Hey, it’s summer.

And surprise! It’s hot! Well, it’s not that hot *today* but it was stupidly hot last week, and we have another bout of 40°C weather coming up early next week.

What to do when it’s already 30°C at 7am and getting a bit too warm for coffee?

Never fear coffee addicts, there’s always cold brew.


Coffee

Cold brew coffee is when coffee grounds are steeped in cold/room temperature water. The ground coffee is mixed with cold water, left alone for about 12 hours, and then strained. That’s it, basically. Not only is it super easy – as long as you’re prepared – it’s also delicious.

So why cold brew? It’s not just so you can drink coffee cold. Brewing this way results in a very smooth, rounded coffee with much less acidity. IT IS DELICIOUS.

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The coffee can be brewed in almost anything. I use a French Press, with a ratio of 1/3 cup of ground coffee to 1.5 cups of cold water. It gets left out on the bench overnight, and then strained into a bottle after 12+ hours of steeping. The coffee then goes into the fridge, where apparently it can last for up to two weeks, although mine always gets drunk way way way before then.

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It’s meant to be a concentrate, but I don’t find that it needs diluting – I just add a generous amount of ice and off I go.

It’s going to be hot on Tuesday, but there’s enough time to prep some coffee. Go forth and cold brew.