So 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 has a nearly-sweet taste. I grind 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 than the metal canning ones) 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 French Press. The only problem I've discovered with this method is that you don't get the smell of brewing coffee that comes when hot water meets ground coffee. The absence of that aroma makes me think that while I adore the taste of this coffee, I may not be a permanent convert. I like the ceremony and scent of making coffee almost as much as I like drinking it and this just doesn't give me that total coffee experience.
Photo by Marisa McClellan
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