Description
A simple step-by-step tutorial on How to Make Cold Brew Coffee in your own home – no fancy equipment necessary!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup whole coffee beans (medium to dark roast)
- 8 cups filtered water
Instructions
- Grind the Beans: Use a coffee grinder to roughly grind up your coffee beans.
- Mix: Place the coffee beans and water in a large, clean jar. Secure a lid on top and give it a good shake to mix everything up.
- Refrigerate: Let it sit in the refrigerator for 24-48 hours. Option to let it chill longer for a stronger cold brew.
- Strain: Put a mesh sieve or strainer on top of another large jar or bowl and place a piece of cheese cloth on top of that. Pour the cold brew mixture through the cheesecloth and strainer. Repeat this process a couple times, if needed to remove any coffee bean grounds.
- Serve/Store: Serve immediately or store in refrigerator for several weeks.
Notes
- How to Coarsely Grind Coffee Beans: I simply place mine in my coffee grinder and pulse a few times. Don’t get too hung up on how they look – as long as they are somewhere between whole beans and finely ground you will be just fine!
- Small Batch: Your can cut down the ratio to 1/2 cup roughly ground beans and 4 cups of water.
- What Works for You: You will also figure out what ratio works best for you (everyone has their own personal preference) – but this is a very “typical” ratio. From here determine if you like your cold brew stronger or weaker. To make it stronger, allow it to brew longer, use more grounds/less water, use a stronger type of bean. To make it weaker, use more water/less grounds.
- Can you heat it up? Yes! Just because you are brewing it in cold water doesn’t mean you cannot heat it up later. The acidity level will remain the same! To heat up, simply place in a small saucepan or teapot and warm up to the desired temperature.
- Can you use decaf beans? Yes! You can definitely use decaf coffee beans instead of regular.
- Can you use finely ground coffee beans? In short, yes, you can use finely ground coffee beans BUT you may run into an issue with filtering out all the grounds during the straining process. Keeping the beans more coarsely ground will help prevent that.
- Caffeine: Here is a great article on whether cold brew has the same amount of caffeine as regular coffee.
- Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate: simply make a stronger batch with 1 cup roughly ground coffee beans (medium to dark roast) and only 4 cups filtered water.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 0
- Sugar: 0 g
- Sodium: 0.6 mg
- Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 0 g
- Protein: 0 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg