How Should Cold Brew Coffee Be Stored and Which Beans Fit?

Cold brew coffee is made by soaking ground coffee in room-temperature water for about 12 hours, then filtering out the grounds. Compared with hot-brewed coffee, the flavor is stronger, the bitterness is lower and the mouthfeel is smoother. Drink it within three to four days, because the fermented taste builds the longer it sits.

Since low-temperature extraction dissolves mainly small molecules such as fruit acids and floral aromas, washed or specially processed beans show up best. Good options include Yirgacheffe Red Cherry with floral, citrus and red berry notes, Costa Rica Mozart with osmanthus and raisin, Colombia Sidra and Panama Butterfly. Use about 50 grams of grounds at a coarse setting.

Cold Brew CoffeeIt is Cold Brew Coffee. Put the ground coffee powder into room-temperature water, soak and extract for 12 hours, then filter out the coffee grounds; the resulting coffee liquid is cold brew coffee. Compared with regular hot-brewed coffee, its coffee flavor is noticeably stronger, it is less bitter, and the mouthfeel becomes smoother.
 
It should be noted that the longer cold brew coffee sits, the stronger its fermented taste becomes, so the flavor you drink each day will also differ. Front Street recommends drinking it within 3-4 days.

  
This kind of coffee sounds quite labor-intensive, but it is actually much simpler to make than imagined. You can understand it this way: put coffee grounds in cold water - place in the refrigerator to soak overnight - filter out the coffee grounds - done. The principle is actually similar to ice drip coffee, except that cold brew coffee is extracted with cold water over a long period, and because it is low-temperature extraction, only small molecules such as fruit acids and floral aromas are dissolved.

Perhaps you may ask, "For making cold brew coffee, what other coffee beans are recommended?"
I would recommend everyone try washed or specially processed beans.
The reason is simple: the resulting cold brew coffee has greater distinctiveness and better sweetness~
 
For example:

1. Front Street Yirgacheffe Red Cherry Coffee

Country: Ethiopia   

Region: Yirgacheffe   

Altitude: 1850-2100m   
Processing Method: Natural     

Variety: Heirloom
Flavor: Floral, citrus, red berries, medium acidity
 

2. Front Street Costa Rica Mozart
Country: Costa Rica  

Region: Tarrazu
Altitude: 1500-1700m      

Variety: Caturra, Catuai
Processing Method: Raisin honey process
Flavor: Osmanthus, raisin, pineapple, berries
 

3. Front Street Colombia Sidra
Region: Colombia    

Farm: Finca La Divisa  

Altitude: 1700m
Variety: Sidra  

Processing Method: Double anaerobic natural
Flavor: Grape, passion fruit, citrus, apricot, nuts
 

4. Front Street Panama Butterfly
Region: Panama Boquete   

Variety: 70% Geisha, Caturra, Catuai
Altitude: 1600-1650    

Processing: Washed process
Flavor: White floral, citrus, orange, tea-like
 

Cold brew coffee is a very easy-to-master brewing method. The Front Street Butterfly cold brew coffee is made based on 50 grams of coffee grounds, with the coffee grounds ground to a coarseness of 85% passing through a No. 20 standard sieve. Put the coffee grounds into a glass bottle, then add 400 milliliters of room-temperature water and 200 grams of hard ice cubes (a total ice-water mixture of 600 grams), with a coffee-to-water ratio of 1:12. Then use a stirring rod to stir the coffee grounds and water evenly, seal, and place in a refrigerated refrigerator.

After placing it in the refrigerator for 12-24 hours, use filter paper to filter out the coffee grounds and obtain a clean coffee liquid. Then use a clean sealed bottle to store the coffee liquid and refrigerate it for about another 4 hours before drinking.

The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.