Sauces & Drinks · American

Cold Brew Coffee

Name: Cold Brew Coffee
Total time: 960 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 1 cup coffee (whole beans, ground coarse — like raw sugar); 4 cup water (cold, filtered if the tap tastes like the tap); ½ cup milk (or water, to cut the concentrate at serving)

3 ingredients · 960 minutes · 2 servings

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38kcal2.1g protein2g fat2.9g carbs~$2.21/ serving*

VegetarianPescatarianNo porkNo alcohol · check

Contains: dairy

Ingredients

Servings:

1 cup	coffee (whole beans, ground coarse — like raw sugar)
4 cup	water (cold, filtered if the tap tastes like the tap)
½ cup	milk (or water, to cut the concentrate at serving)
1 tbsp	syrup (simple or maple, to sweeten)optional
¼ tsp	vanilla extract (a drop in the glass)optional

Method

mix3 min
grounds + cold water, stirred until no dry pockets
in any large jar — the coarse grind is the entire technique: cold water extracts slowly and gently (that's where the low-acid smoothness comes from), and a fine grind turns the same 16 hours into bitter over-extraction plus a filtration nightmare
infuse900 min
refrigerated, lidded, 14-18 hours
the wait IS the recipe — cold extraction trades heat for time, pulling the sweet and chocolatey compounds while leaving most of the acids and bitterness in the grounds; taste at 14 hours, and know that 'stronger' past 18 mostly means 'woodier'
prep8 min
strained twice: coarse sieve, then a fine pass
first through the fine-mesh sieve to catch the grounds, then again through a coffee filter, cheesecloth, or a clean thin towel — the second pass captures the silt that makes lazy cold brew taste muddy; the reward is concentrate that pours like dark silk and keeps two weeks refrigerated
mix1 min
in the glass: 1 part concentrate, 1 part milk or water, ice
diluted to taste — the concentrate is deliberately too strong to drink straight, which is what makes one jar a week of coffee; over ice with milk it is the drink the whole category of $6 cans is imitating