If you pour your regular steaming hot coffee over ice that ice melts adding too much water.
Cold brew iced coffee tattoo.
First you want to take a cold brew maker and fill it with 30 grams of coffee.
What makes cold brew coffee so tasty is time.
Then hit the coffee briefly for 20 to 40 seconds with boiling water to begin the initial extraction.
Cold brew is not iced coffee which is simply hot coffee cooled and diluted with ice cubes.
Pouring day old cold coffee left in the pot over a handful of ice cubes is not iced coffee at least not optimal iced coffee.
Making cold brew isn t as straightforward as simple iced coffee.
Let s get this sorted first.
Since no heat is is involved in the process cold brew is smoother and contrary to popular belief much less acidic.
Iced coffee brewed with cold water can be bland but of course there are problems with hot water too.
Rather it s a coffee concentrate that comes from steeping grounds in cold water.