Welcome to Drinks Tube. My name is Mike and I make cold brew coffee for a living and today
I'm gonna teach you guys at home how you can make cold brew coffee for yourselves using
stuff that you've got around the kitchen, how about that? First question you guys are
probably gonna have is cold brew coffee what's that, is it coffee that's cold? That I have
to drink cold? I don't like drinking cold coffee, I like hot coffee. Doesn't matter,
'cos cold brew coffee is nothing about having to drink cold coffee. In principle cold brew
is coffee grind sitting in water that you leave so it can seep out all its beautiful
flavours that you then filter off and are left with a pure coffee concentrate. So those
of you in the UK, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Not those of you in the states,
your wonderful. Those in France, you're even more amazing and in Italy you're untouchable
because I tell you what in this country 77% of us are still drinking instant coffee and
that is unforgivable, I won't have it you hear! The reason cold brew work in this situation
is because you can make a batch that will last you a whole week, stick it in the fridge
and it's dead easy, and it's very good, and it's very versatile. First thing you need
is coffee, now you can by it as beans in any supermarket or any coffee shop or you can
buy in pre-ground. Right, first is first coffee beans. Now, I've already bought 250 grams
which will make a nice good litre of cold brew coffee. Open your beans and in they go,
all the way up to the line definitely needs to be on the coarsest setting. Right now,
remember of course, having pre-ground coffee is just as good you don't have to have a grinder
but I'm a bit of a show off when it comes to this kind of thing; so that's why I use
one! It also gives me an opportunity to take a moment out from the hard rigours of making
cold brew coffee and have a chat and make a connection be a little bit more intimate
with the old crowd out there. So I had a little bit of a journey up today- unbelievable and
I was the best man, true story. Hang on a sec, I'll just finish this and come back to
you. Into the bowl, look at that super coarse. Once you've got your grind out pour yourself
a litre and a half of filtered water. Nice and slowly, don't just dump it in. Because
what we want to do is soak all of that grind. We want to make sure that everything is allowed
to express itself. Strangely attractive isn't it? Get yourself a nice towel over the top
and then you go away and wait for, now this is the important bit wait for at least 20
hours. You want to leave it seeping for as long as possible, so 20 minimum but I like
around the 24 hour mark. And we're back it's 24 hours later, let's have a look, see what
she's looking like. Right now, you might not woah! Woooah! This looks like it's a strong
one. Here we go, let's get rid of that. That is looking amazing and it's smelling amazing
as well. I could almost drink it straight away but I'm not going to 'cos it's full of
grind and I've got to get rid of that before I can drink it. Now you're gonna do it twice
because the first times gonna get rid of all the big stuff, the second time through kitchen
roll is gonna get rid of all the the little stuff leaving you with a lovely clear coffee.
So get your bowl, place your sieve, get your cold brew straight through into the bowl,
pour it all through because there is some really tasty coffee still stuck in there.
Let's get that all out, that's it. Give that a little dingle. Get the kitchen roll, give
your kitchen roll a little bit of a soaking. There we go. Put your kitchen roll just straight
into your sieve. Here is your double filtration process, straight in until it reaches the
top. This is the bit that takes the longest. Once this is all done at the front end, the
back end is wonderful you got it in the fridge- you're free to go, you can make your hot,
you can make your cold, you can do everything you want to do with a coffee. This looks like
it's gonna be a two and a half siever. And we're done! Here it is, all finished. Nice
dirty filter picking up all of the stuff we don't want to drink, leaving the stuff that
we do. And the next thing is to find a good jug or something seal-able that you can stick
into your fridge so you can keep the cold brew for up to two weeks if it's nicely sealed.
That's why I think it's so good. Right, here we go. Pour, pour, pour. There we go. Right,
actually before I put it in the fridge I'm gonna have a taste. Gonna pop the kettle on
and i'm gonna pour just a little smidge into my morning cup. That's all I'm using. Come
on in, let's have a look. There it is, that's all I'm using. There it is, hot water in.
Now the other beautiful thing about a cold brew is because that hot water, this is the
first time it's ever met hot water it hasn't leached all the flavours from the grind from
the beginning and as a result it's not nearly as bitter, a lot of the acids and the oils
haven't been released from the grind and you can drink it without sugar and without milk,
that's what I do. Mmm. Smooth, so smooth and I urge you, I command you to try that at home
because it is that easy and I guarantee that you will never go back to instant once you've
done it. So if you wanna see me making anything else with cold brew or if you've got any questions
let me know in the comments and make sure that you subscribe you Drinks Tube.
Happy Brewing!