While in Long Beach, Washington, I was visiting the Long Beach Coffee Roaster and got had an iced coffee (it was 70 degrees on the WA coast - iced was the way to go). The owner of the shop said that they cold pressed the coffee for their cold coffee drinks. What is cold pressing and how is it done? Can you do it at home. What little I've read on the web said that cold pressing makes a smooth coffee concentrate. The iced coffee I had was very smooth.
I'm guessing that it's made with Cold water in a french Press But I could be wrong Alan
Edit: Came upon this cold press coffee cold press coffee is a brewing process that takes about one pound of coarse ground coffee placed in a closed container and filled with cold water. Wait 12 to 18 hours and drain through a filter into a carafe. why cold press? it's smoother than espresso and usually doesn't have a bitter bite to it that espresso shots can have sometimes. makes a great iced coffee or americano.
cold press coffee cold press coffee is a brewing process that takes about one pound of coarse ground coffee placed in a closed container and filled with cold water. Wait 12 to 18 hours and drain through a filter into a carafe. why cold press? it's smoother than espresso and usually doesn't have a bitter bite to it that espresso shots can have sometimes. makes a great iced coffee or americano.
This is called a Coffee Toddy Maker. It produces a thinck syrupy coffee liquer that is ment to be dilluted in hot water to create a rich cup of coffee. I've never tried it and don't know how to make it iced.
I purchased a home kit (because its more like a system than a machine) and have ceased to hot brew anything that might be iced later on. I love the stuff.
ClayD Senior Member Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Seattle Expertise: I love coffee
Posted Sat Mar 26, 2005, 8:27am Subject: Re: Cold Press - Huh?
Which system did you buy? I was thinking about trying to make some cold press in my french press, then running it through a double cone filter. Based on your experience with the system, do you think this will work very well?
One thing I don't like about most iced coffee is that either it is watery because ice is added to drip the hot coffee or it has that "been sitting in a fridge" taste you get when you make coffee and cool it in the fridge. That's what brought me around to investigating cold pressing.
So I did an experiment, I put 2 cups of coffee grounds in my french press then added 3.25 cups of cold water to the press, stir it until all the coffee grounds were well soaked, then I put the plunger in the french press and pushed it down just enought to get a little water through the top of the screen (like 1/8 inch). I let the coffee soak for 12 hours, then I pressed the coffee and ran the liquer through a cone filter.
Then I put 1/2 cup of the coffee liquer with 1/2 cup of water and ice in a cup and drank. Yummy, just like a strong cup of regular coffee, only cold.
I'd love to compare this approach to the toddy or filtron system results.
By the way, the toddy system says brew with 1 lb coffee to 9 cups water. I weighed my dry coffee grounds to get the same weight to cups of water used in the toddy system. For the coffee I was using 5.5 cups of grounds weighed 0.75 lb.
Oh yeah, pressing this much coffee took a bit of muscle and patients. I had to lift the plunger a little bit a couple times to even keep the plunger moving.
Toddy Love 5 lbs of American Roast 14 qts cold water. last 2-3 days during high sales. you can contact toddy makers she can hook you up with the larg filtter bags. get a 20 qt tub with led and you have a system that rocks.
Given that its hit serious summertime temps here in DC, a young lad's thoughts turn once again to cold process coffee. I've done the toddy-thing, just dropped a lb. of coffee into a vat with 9 cups of cold water, let it sit overnight, and then triple filtered it through the basket of an ADC machine.
Since I seem to collect coffee hardware, however, I started thinking once again about a cold process drip thing I saw in a coffee bar in Japan. I've exhausted my search capabilities on Google and the like, and find no hide nor hair of any references. So, thought I'd go to the experts. I believe the machine was of scandinavian origin. It looked like it belonged in a chemist's lab--a series of glass cylinders attached to a vertical metal rod. The topmost container was a reservoir for cold water with a drip regulator on the bottom. I believe the proprietor said it dripped at a rate of a deciliter every ten hours. Below the reservoir were a coffee holder/filter assembly and, below that, a little jug to catch the drippings, all in glass. I believe the coffee holder/filter was a simple cylinder with a taper/exit hole at the bottom that used circular paper filters. The really odd thing was that, once the machine was set up--filters installed in the bottom of the cylinder and coffee tamped down, a little gold spoon was attached to the top of cylinder on a pivot. Empty, the spoon was balanced so that it was horizontal. When water dripped down from the reservoir, it would land in the spoon, weight down the front end, and the spoon would swing down to gently deposit the droplet of water on top of the tamped coffee. While, like most things Japanese, this is probably overkill, it was still amusing to watch.
Anyone ever seen such a device or have any info on where one might procure such a beast? I've thought about actually just going to a lab supply store and buying some bits to do it, but the parts seem a bit specfiic. Any help appreciated.
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