How To Use French Press Cold Brew

Don t push down your french press plunger just yet and place your french press in a cold dark place for 12 15 hours we use our refrigerator.

How to use french press cold brew. Place the french press plunger on top and store in the fridge for 12 hours. Add 3 cups of room temperature water. Pour 3 cups of cold water over the grounds. Voila cold brew is yours. About 3 4 cup of coarsely ground coffee 28 oz.

Stir the coffee grounds. Add 4 oz of coarse ground coffee to the bottom of the french press. Slowly pour over 1 liter of filtered water roughly 4 cups. If you re using a glass french press use a wooden spoon so you don t crack the glass. As always filtered water aids with better extraction but if there s any brew method you can get away with using tap water it s cold brew.

How to make cold brew coffee in a french press cold brew recipe. Then push down your plunger and pour over ice. The correct coffee to water ratio for cold brewing is between 1 5 or 1 4 depending on how strong you like it. Get your beans ready. Roughly ground up your coffee beans.

Of course you can adjust this ratio to make your cold brew weaker or stronger. How to cold brew. 115 g of coarse ground coffee to the bottom of the french press. Let sit for 14 16 hours at room temperature. I always make my cold brew coffee with 4 cups water to 1 2 cup roughly ground coffee beans.

Pour 3 cups of cold or room temp water over the grounds gently. Make sure all of the grounds are fully immersed by giving the slurry a thorough stir. To use a french press to make your coffee you can follow these steps. For this tutorial we will use 90 grams a little less than a cup of coarsely ground coffee which is a slightly scaled down ratio of toddy s cold brew recipe because you re making your cold brew using a french press you ll need a coarser grind than. I realized then i could use my beloved french press to not only brew hot coffee but also cold brew.