How To Make Iced Coffee
Many of us love coffee, but the thought of drinking a hot beverage in
the middle of summer on a humid day sounds miserable. There
is a solution! Iced coffee makes a refreshing treat on a hot
day and tastes wonderful. The best part is that there is more
than one way to make iced coffee.
Keep in mind that for iced coffee, the best flavor typically comes from
darker roasted coffees.
Method One: Using Toddy
The cold water
Toddy is an excellent way of making iced coffee that is rich
in taste and very low in acidity. To brew iced coffee using
the Toddy, please visit the Toddy
How-to page.
Method Two: Chill already Hot Coffee
- The way that may be most familiar to you is to brew using
whatever you use for hot coffee.
- Brew your coffee as you would hot using an auto-drip, French Press,
or any other method. (Keep in mind that adding ice cubes will water
down your coffee. You may want to brew the coffee a little
stronger than usual to preserve the taste.)
- Allow the hot coffee to cool to room temperature for an
hour or so.
- Put the brewed coffee into a pitcher and place it in the
refrigerator.
- Enjoy it by the glass!
Method Three: Cold Water Brewing
- This method can be messy, but will result in a French Press
quality of iced coffee that is delicious!
- Using 1 lb. of coarsely ground coffee. Place the
grounds in a large pitcher.
- Add 9 cups of cold, filtered water to the pitcher.
- Cover the pitcher and place it in the refrigerator for at
least 12 hours.
- After the 12 hour period, you need to remove the coffee
grounds. You can scoop most of them off of the top of the
pitcher where they tend to form.
- To remove the rest of the grounds, pour the coffee mixture
through a thin sieve into another pitcher.
- Rinse the original pitcher.
- Finally, strain the mixture one more time back into the
original pitcher, this time through a coffee filter placed in the
sieve.
The result is a full bodied iced coffee with almost 70% of the coffees
acid removed.
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