Cold brew usually tastes like piss imo
Can’t stand cold coffee.
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I like the stone street cold brew.
I make cold brew by letting cold water soak over cold grounds in my fridge using my stainless carafe as the “cold brew machine”
I grind my beans to where it’s coarse for the French Press and after 12-18 hours of letting the grounds soak in the carafe in my fridge I pour it into my fp, while halfway straining the grounds with the carafe lid. After that I use the French Press to strain whatever grounds are left in the cold brew.
Fucking incredible and matched store purchased cold brew in flavor. Poured into a clear glass there’s about as much grinds left over as using a regular electric drip.
Cold brew pitchers are dope though.
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agree cold brew could use more presence, best I’ve ever had was from a Yama slow-drip cold brew maker. we used to have 6 in a nice row at the side of the shop i used to work at–can NOT be beat as a showpiece, and the quality matches. we used an ice/water slurry in the top, then the coffee goes in the middle cylinder with a sandstone filter below it. coffee just a bit coarser than auto-drip grind, total brew time ~16hrs. LOVELY stuff, that we bottled and was crazy popular, diluted perfectly when poured over ice.
that being said, what i’ve learned from cannabis would make me modify it a bit (for example, a needle valve vs. the ball valve it comes with for drip control, a lot of open spaces for volatiles to escape, the coil for ‘aeration’ seems unnecessary to me now, etc.)
i have the mini version at home, and i straight up do not use it enough.
i like the potential in cold brew, much like in cannabis it can preserve flavors and aromatics that are lost in hot brews–though the converse is true too, cold brews won’t extract certain flavors vs. a hot brew.
it’s allll in the variables baby <3
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DID YOU KNOW:
Mr. Coffee was the first company to develop and sell an auto-drip coffeemaker?
I’d thought it just a toss-off, obvious choice for a brand name but turns out theyre the OG.
Not a big fan of auto-drips in general but when it comes down to it, coffee is coffee and i only have so much time. great in a pinch and to keep my crews quick-stepping in their tasks
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I’ve noticed you can taste the flavor of the coffee more on hot brew vs cold brew. I.e. if your coffee is called “Blueberry Cream Pie” for example, hot brew brings out that blueberry taste. Cold brew is more bitter and less flavorful imo.
Nitro cold brew is same way, very bitter.
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yeah im not sold on nitro brews, that’s a bell/whistle i could care less about. pretty gimmicky, i guess some people like it but much like carbonation it affects flavor in a way i don’t like.
I agree cold brew flavors can be more muted than hot brews, i think it has to do with the higher brewing temps extracting more of those flavors, as well as the fact that anything hot tastes ‘more’ than the same thing tasted cold–this goes into the dynamics of tasting itself, which is a cool rabbit hole on its own.
good way to test is to take a cold crew, heat it to hot coffee temp, then taste side by side with the cold version. it’s a trip how different that experience can be
then, there’s doing a pourover with your receiving vessel full of ice–so, a hot brew, made in-line into a cold crew. ENTIRELY different experience. god its such a fun sandbox to play in
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Gonna experiment with that on many different qualities of coffee.
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So do I. I Use a paperless funnel and I Put all my grounds down the sink…
No issues yet, 6 years in lol
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I had no clue. No wonder why my grandma liked the name so much. She had a lot of GE stuff too but that made sense to me because I looked up why was GE so popular at one point and it turns out if you lived through the 1980’s you went through the period where Neutron Jack was in control GE.
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I have been thinking of composting my coffee grounds instead of trashing them heard it can make good compost
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So I think nothing beats this so far.
It’s hands down best coffee I ever tried.
Their new bags look different.
There we go
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i recently upgraded to one of these and holy shit was it worth the money https://www.seattlecoffeegear.com/rocket-espresso-mozzafiato-timer-evoluzione-r-espresso-machine
Cold brew is the true way to make coffee. More rounded flavor, lower acidity, and the batch is always ready to pour. All you need is a pitcher and cheese cloth. Yeah it has a lower yield but so does hash rosin. If anyone has a recipe for espresso that involves lab equipment please share!
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Try downhome general store in north dakota
Part of me wanted to see caffeine crystals in a coffee terpsauce. Still a fun read.
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Make a thread please (= I wanna see it.!!!
This seems like a nice little machine for a drip.
I had an idea of using 1"×2" triclamp to make an espresso cartridge and use a rotary high pressure water pump and have the water sent to the rotary pump by peristaltic or direct inline to an r.o. water system.
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OH yeha and the all electric cheap ass aliexpress or Amazon hook to wall instant hot water heaters that have either ⅜ or ¼ npt connections…
Mini Electric Hot Water Heater, 3KW Tankless Instant Warm Water Heater with LCD Display Adjustable Temperature from 95℉-113℉ for Home Kitchen Washing Faucet 110V (Red)… Amazon.com
Alternatively you could have a whole house water filter with carbon 0.5 um filtration hooked to the inlet and outlet of the instant hot water heater.
I have ideas I just don’t have the patience to try them… More like money.
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i have similar ideas, and similarly low amounts of time and money to enact them.
if it were me, i’d have an RO system hooked up to an insulated vessel to fill it with water, then a water circuit coming out and back into that same vessel with one of those in-line heaters, hooked up to a thermostat/PID–this would be a way to heat up your source water super quickly (vs.immersion heaters in most boilers, which take awhile to heat up) but still have the advantage of a reservoir of set-temp-stable water (to the .1 degree!). that would prevent me from worrying about water temp stability during the brew, vs. an in-line heater going straight into the brewing process, which i think would be tricky to dial in or keep stable. possible of course, just have to match ones heat input with flowrate perfectly.
then, for actual brewing, a gear pump hooked up to a VFD. that way i could control the pressure curve going through the coffee manually, and just watch a gauge and timer.i like positive displacement for that job, a prv in the right place would make me feel better too haha
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ah yes one of those 
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