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I was reading my Real Simple magazine the other day and found out why the iced coffee I've been making tastes like actual crap.
Apparently the trick is to cold brew it. Simply chilling hot coffee will give you a bitter, acidic taste. But cold brewing gives you a milder, smoother iced coffee. Here's how:
Mix about two cups of ground coffee with four cups of room temperature water. Real Simple suggests course to medium ground coffee, but I just used the regular ground Folgers from the grocery.
Let the mix sit in a glass container over night. Here's what mine looked like in the morning:
After about 12 hours pour the mix through a mesh strainer lined with a coffee filter. The mix should produce about three cups of cold-brewed coffee.
The coffee should stay fresh in the fridge for up to two weeks. And don't throw away those grounds! I'll have a blog post later this week about uses for them. Cheers!
Since the coffee is pretty concentrated, I suggest adding cream or milk. I have about two parts coffee to one part cream in the picture below. I also made ice cubes with some of the left over brew. The chance of me finishing a drink in one sitting has greatly decreased since having kids.
The coffee should stay fresh in the fridge for up to two weeks. And don't throw away those grounds! I'll have a blog post later this week about uses for them. Cheers!
