Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #560 - Cold Brew Coffee

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Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #560 - Cold Brew Coffee

Hi Mom, It's time to cold brew some coffee. This is something I have been meaning to do for some time. I need to get some espresso bean tomorrow. to cold brew.

This comes via Cory Doctorow via @crashwong Alyssa Wong). Thanks to those fine people for this re-posted content.

That's it for today. Going to bed early tonight.

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http://boingboing.net/2013/07/20/cheap-easy-no-mess-cold-brew.html

CHEAP, EASY, NO-MESS COLD-BREW COFFEE

patrickroppisdead:

mostlysignssomeportents:

 Last summer, while teaching the Clarion workshop, I came up with a great, no-mess way to make cold-brew coffee. This is the best-tasting coffee you’re likely to drink this summer.

I bought a $10 “nut-milk” bag and a plastic pitcher. Every night before bed, I ground up about 15 Aeropress scoops’ (570 ml) worth of espresso roast coffee — the $20 Krups grinder is fine for this, though I wouldn’t use it with an actual espresso machine — leaving the beans coarse. I filled the bag with the grind, put it in the bottom of the empty pitcher like a huge tea-bag, and topped up the pitcher with tap water (distilled water would have been better — fewer dissolved solids means that it’ll absorb more of the coffee solids, but that’s not a huge difference). I wedged the top of the bag between the lid and the pitcher and stuck it in the fridge overnight.

In the morning, I took the bag out of the pitcher and gave it a good squeeze to get the liquor out of the mush inside. Add water to the pitcher to fill to the brim and voila, amazing cold-brew. You can dilute it 1:1 or even further.

Cleanup was easy: invert the bag over a trashcan or garbage disposal, rinse off the bag, and you’re ready to go.

This produced very, very good coffee concentrate, with only a little grit settled into the bottom 3mm of the pitcher (easy to avoid). It may just be the cheapest and easiest cold-brewing method I’ve yet tried.

Can attest: extremely good coffee concentrate. 

Yo, Cory’s cold brew coffee is the best. And it will wake you the hell up.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.