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Loving Cold Brew Coffee
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items If you want to make great cold brew at home, here's a curation of my guides and recommended tools. I've been making cold brew coffee at home for 10 years and counting. If you don't want to make it a home, check out my favorite commercial cold brews f...
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How to Make Cold Brew
Tools
Commercial Cold Brews
Coffee Beans
How to Make Cold Brew
Cold brew coffee can be made by immersion, cold drip, or with rapid brewers that use agitation during immersion. Immersion is the simplest way to get started.
My guide to making cold brew, with over 3000 batches and counting.
Making Cold Brew - Cold Brew Queen
Tools
Some of my favorite cold brew makers and accessories.
Immersion plus filter makes a nice flavorful brew. When your done brewing, just pull the filter out and store your coffee in the jar. This does leave some fine sediment, but the flavor is really good since some of the coffee oils remain in your brew.
Quart size (32oz), includes Mason jar - Rumble Jar
I have had a Bodum cold brew maker for about 8 years and still use it. This is immersion with a French press plunger to strain the grounds. This also leaves some fine sediment, but has good flavor.
BODUM® - Cold Brew
The OG cold brewer. Used by coffee shops.
Toddy® Home Cold Brew System
After immersion, I pour through a paper coffee filter held in a cone filter holder. If you have sediment remaining from any of the other brewers in this list, you can also give it a strain through a paper filter too.
Drippers - Hario USA
Cold brew works best with coarsely ground coffee, and the best way to get that is to buy whole beans and grind it yourself. This is the grinder I use. It has settings from Fine to Coarse so every coffee drinker in the house can grind beans the way th...
Coffee Grinder - Cuisinart
Commercial Cold Brews
No time to brew? I've tried many cold brews over the years. These are a few of my favorites.
I love the concentrate. Dilute 50/50 with water.
Cold Brew Coffee | Stumptown Coffee Roasters
One of the OG commercial cold brews, another favorite.
Chameleon Cold-Brew | Official Online Store
Bizzy has been making cold brew for several years now. Smooth and bold flavors, without smokiness.
Bizzy Cold Brew: Home
Coffee Beans
You can use any coffee bean you like for cold brew. Most commercial cold brews use beans from Central or South America, and medium roast is popular. Whole beans work great because you can grind them yourselves to coarsely ground. Some coffee labeled ...
This is available in many supermarkets, is medium roast, and has a deep bold flavor that is not overly smoky.
Seattle’s Best Coffee
The House Blend is another supermarket favorite for making great cold brew.
Gevalia Coffee
Blue Bottle was early to the cold brew market. They have specific blends for cold brew (try the assortment to find your fave), and also New Orleans style blends, which include chicory. Chicory adds an earthy note to cold brew.
Blue Bottle Coffee | Fresh Roasted Specialty Coffee
Peets is also available in many supermarkets. Alameda breakfast blend has some chocolatey notes, and Big Bang also has chocolate notes and is available in Decaf.
Peet's Coffee