Cold Brew One

Let's just go ahead and face it. If you're making cold brew at home from scratch, you're addicted to coffee and maybe, well, probably just caffeine as a whole. But that's okay. Let me be of assistance. Why cold brew, right? Why? Cold brew versus iced coffee. Cold brew extracts the coffee very slowly over a long period of time, which limits the amount of acidity and bitterness that is already involved in coffee making. Because with the heat in coffee, that tends to extract a little bit of bitterness and much more acidity. Whereas with cold brew, you got a lower acidity, lower bitterness, and an overall smoother flavor and more importantly, a higher, wow, that was a lot of saliva. My mouth is obviously getting excited for cold brew. Plus not to mention a much higher caffeine content. So you're welcome. Now with good cold brew comes good beans. Obviously that's kind of a given, but Some sites say that older coffee is better, but Now we're going to be doing two different methods here, but they both use the same grind consistency in the same ratio of coffee to water. Now we're going to start by grinding one and a half cups or 80 grams of coffee beans. Now when you're grinding the coffee, keep in mind that you want the grind consistency to be relatively coarse, something Then simply add that coffee to a half gallon container. In this case, I used a half gallon mason jar. They'really great and they're cheap. Now for method n So to these beans, you're going to add six cups or 1400 grams of cold or room temperature water. Either way, you just don't want it to be hot. Ideally filtered. Give that a good stir to make sure that you've hydrated all the grounds, put a lid on it and place it in the fridge for 12 to 24 hours. 24 hours will make a much stronger brew and 12 hours will make a pretty light brew. Now for method n This is essentially the same thing, but this time you're only going to add a third of your water, which has been heated up until it'steaming hot, not quite boiling, but pretty hot. And if you want to be specific, probably somewhere around 205 degrees Fahrenheit, get that a little stir to hydrate the beans and let it sit for one minute, no more, no less. And immediately after that minute, add the remaining four cups of your water and make sure that water is cold because you want to cool this mixture right back down. Yet again, give it a little stir, put a lid on it, place it in the fridge for 12 to 24 hours. Now once that 12 to 24 hours is up, remove it from the fridge and now we got to strain it. Now since I'm giving you two different methods to brew the cold brew, it only seems right to give you two different methods to strain it. Now the first one would be through a fine mesh strainer with cheesecloth laid over it. The downside and drawback of this method is that if you strain it through this and your grinder doesn't get a super consistent grind, then it's going to be a little bit gritty. You're going to get a little bit of grittiness through there, so Now the other method that I've sort of figured out is pouring it through a pour over type coffee situation. So I'm basically just pouring it through the filter of my pour over, aka my Chemex. And this actually filters out all the grounds to get a super smooth, no gritty, literally zero grittiness, no matter how inconsistent your grinder is. Takes a bit longer, but hey, it works. Now you can also get this thing called a coffee sock. It basically brews it and strains it for you. I'll put a link in the description if you want to get it. I personally don't use one, but a lot of people have been DMing me on Instagram about it, so I thought I'd give it a little bit of a shout out. So that is it. Cold brew coffee. I don't really know what else to say. It's coffee. It's iced. It's got a lot of caffeine in it, much more than regular iced coffee. And whichever method you choose, I trust you. I'm just going to wait for this refrigerator. No, it's fine. Please continue. Oh, you're done? Okay. You get the gist. If you don't already follow me on Instagram, be sure to check the link below and follow me, DM me your creations. I love seeing what you're making. And as always, if you enjoy this video or you learned something, leave a