Cold pressed coffee

Mugatuu · 01-03-2016 09:15AM #1

Hi,
Has anyone any experience making cold pressed coffee?

Have tried a few different ratios 1.5 & 1.10.
200g of coffee to a litre of water.
100g of coffee to a litre of water.

Originally used Starbucks beans, ground them coarsly, soaked in the water over night and found it was very bitter coffee, then tried Illy beans and found it improved.

Overall still slightly bitter. Any reccomendations for low acid / low pH coffee? Medium roast seems a good option but I've no idea what type beans would be good! Any suggestions?

A type of coffee bean that would give some nice subtle flavours would be good! It recommends using a fairy coarse grind - which I've done, maybe a finer grind would work better?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

OldBean · 01-03-2016 09:31AM

I use a light roast, and usually African coffees.

Generally 60g coffee with quite a coarse grind ( I'd grind coarser than French press) to 1L of water and left overnight.

Usually turns out great.

dball · 01-03-2016 09:39AM

lots on youtube about this, some recommendations on foodtube

Mugatuu · 01-03-2016 10:54AM

OldBean wrote: »

I use a light roast, and usually African coffees.

Generally 60g coffee with quite a coarse grind ( I'd grind coarser than French press) to 1L of water and left overnight.

Usually turns out great.

I asked about using a light roast over a medium roast coffee in a few coffee shops and they said that light roast coffee can tend to keep the acidic properties in the coffee and to go with a medium roast. I'll search out a light and medium roast African coffee and she how I get on! Thanks!

OldBean · 01-03-2016 11:44AM

I like brighter coffee so would be biased, but the difference lies in good acidity and bad acidity.

Where are you based? I would say to try check out coffee from 3FE or Roasted Brown if you can get them locally.

Mugatuu · 01-03-2016 02:04PM

OldBean wrote: »

I like brighter coffee so would be biased, but the difference lies in good acidity and bad acidity.

Where are you based? I would say to try check out coffee from 3FE or Roasted Brown if you can get them locally.

Based in the South East, I'll give 3FE a bell and ask them if they would post down some lighter coffee!

OldBean · 01-03-2016 04:54PM

Arch Cafe in Waterford stock 3FE's coffee if that's near you. I think they have a stockist in Wexford too.

Cold pressed coffee

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