Coffee Geek Cold Brew
This is an oldie but a goodie from coffeegeek.com .
There's a lot of potential variation to this recipe, but we've outlined the original steps below. Feel free to experiment.
For a good read, and an explanation behind the whole recipe (with a stack of interesting comments), see the original post on Coffee Geek.
This recipe produces more of a concentrate that is pressed over ice, and then finished off with milk (if you desire).
Recipe overview
Recipe details:
Inverted
1:30
Metal Filter
Coffee:
30g
Medium
Your choice, but the sweeter the better!
Water:
95°C / 203°F
150mL
Equipment:
- Add your coffee to an inverted AeroPress. For a cold brew with the Aeropress, go 1.5x-2x the volume of ground coffee you'd normally use for a hot brew. In this example, we're using 30g of coffee for 150g (ml) of water. That's a ratio of 20g per 100ml.
- Add all of your water (150ml) to the AeroPress.
- Stir the slurry quite vigorously for the first 30 seconds or so. Then continue doing one or two stirs every 5-10 seconds letting the coffee steep and extract for up to 60 seconds.
- Add the filter after about a minute (or more) of steep time. How much steep time? Depends on your coffee and your taste. Experiment!
- As the coffee continues to steep for another 30 seconds or so, add your ice to your glass to fill it up.
- Flip your AeroPress and slowy plunge.
- Once you've finished plunging, keep a bit of the airspace between coffee and the plunger - this way, you keep the bloom out of the cup, which can lead to more bitters.
- Add some milk - this is optional, but the sweetness milk can really gives a boost to the cup.
- Stir the brewed coffee until you start seeing condensation on the glass, and serve.
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Recipe overview
Recipe details:
Inverted
1:30
Metal Filter
Coffee:
30g
Medium
Your choice, but the sweeter the better!
Water:
95°C / 203°F
150mL