The perfect cold brew for a hot day.
I make this recipe extra-easy by brewing before I go to bed at night in my 4-cup french press and just pressing first thing in the morning. I’ll just go ahead and admit that I buy my coffee pre-ground and it works great. A standard grind is fine, but look for one — or grind yourself — a little on the coarse side of standard. Use a coffee you like, and you may be surprised how much more you like it when you brew this way. I like a strong, small cup, and that’s what this brew yields when served with a generous splash of milk. You can treat it like a concentrate and dilute it with cold filtered water to taste without any loss of quality.
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The Best Cold Brew Coffee
- Total Time: 8 hours 5 mins
- Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients
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- 80 grams scant 1 cup ground coffee
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 1/2 cups cold filtered water
- Ice cubes
- Milk of choice or additional cold filtered water (to taste)
Instructions
- Into a 4-cup french press, liquid measure or jar, pour the ground coffee, brown sugar and cinnamon. Pour in half the water and stir well. Add remaining water and stir again.
- Let sit at room temperature or in the fridge overnight, then press or strain through cheesecloth or a nut milk bag into a clean container.
- To serve, fill glass with ice and pour in coffee and milk to taste. Dilute with cold filtered water if desired.
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 0 mins
- Category: Coffee
French press overnight is my kind of lazy. I love the brown sugar and cinnamon twist, I would never have thought to add cinnamon to cold brew. Serving it as a concentrate makes sense too. Do you dilute it half and half, or do you drink it straight with just a splash of milk?
Same here, love this twist. Personally I drink my cold brew slowly, usually over hours. The ice cubes melt, I add more, they melt, I add more. Last few sips are weak, but the beginning is POWERFUL. I am all for diluting btw.