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ball jar filled with brewing cold brew coffee
I started drinking coffee when I was a pre-teen (quite possibly the reason I never grew beyond 5'2") and over the last 16 years, I have tried just about every coffee brewing method available. I've had several French Presses (still a favorite when I'm making coffee just for myself), both cone and cup style filter machines, the Bialetti stovetop espresso pot and the classic Chemex pour through model (in addition to the plastic cone on the coffee cup set up). I also own a 50-cup party percolator that used to be my grandfather's and several pieces of an ancient aluminum stovetop percolator.

With all this coffee making power at my fingertips, I have never branched out into cold brew territory. However, I am becoming increasingly intrigued* by that particular style since reading this post by Leland over at Eat. He has been on a coffee journey similar to my own, and is loving the cold brew method for his summertime fix of iced coffee. There are a number of different ways to go about cold brewing coffee. He does his without any special equipment, but you can buy a kit to make the brewing process even easier.

*The process of writing this post made me so curious about making my own cold brewed coffee that I leaped off my couch and ran to the kitchen to whip up a batch. I put a full grinders worth of beans in the jar you see above, filled it the rest of the way up with water, gave it a bit of a stir and left it to do it's thing. I'll report back later on how it turned out.

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