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Brewing coffee for 24 hours requires serious patience
Do you have the patience to wait 12 to 24 hours for your coffee to brew? If so, you've got to assume you'll end up with a pretty excellent cup of joe. Check this out:
This is the coffee maker that brews with cold water to reduce the acid in coffee by 69.6%, producing rich, flavorful coffee. Independent laboratory tests confirm the hourglass significantly reduces the acidic compounds and tannic acids in coffee that can cause heartburn and create bitter tastes. Cold brewing produces a concentrated coffee extract that retains flavor-enhancing essential oils that are lost when coffee beans are exposed to heat.Sounds interesting if you're that much of a coffee maniac, but I'll just stick to my cup of sludge from the corner bodega, thanks.The hourglass does not require any electricity; simply combine 2 1/4 cups of coarsely ground coffee beans with 3 1/2 cups of water in the brewing chamber and allow the coffee to infuse with the water for 12 to 24 hours. When the infusion process is complete, turn the hourglass over and 16 oz. of extract instantly drains through a reusable stainless steel filter and into the extract chamber. Combine some of the extract with hot water for traditional coffee or cold water for iced coffee. The extract can be kept in the included carafe and stored in a refrigerator for up to two weeks.
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By CroHighFlunky at 12:51 PM ON 08/07/09
In San Francisco, Dangerous Coffee out in the outer Sunset area (4028 Judah) and serves a cold pressed coffee (using coffee that has been roasted more than a day and not suitable for espresso anymore). Has a good lingering sweet taste, with a highly concentrated amount of caffeine (a shot glass=24 oz brewed coffee).
By Maj at 5:35 PM ON 08/07/09
So you 'brew' the coffee using cold water for 24 hours, then you... introduce it to hot water to make coffee. Which causes it to be bitter and acidic.
The point being?
By fgt at 12:10 AM ON 08/08/09
Wait. Let's see now.
Take 2 1/4 cups of beans and add 3 1/2 cups of water. Wait. Makes just 16 oz (2 cups) of coffee.
And three cups of sludge?
By Roaster Rick at 12:28 AM ON 08/08/09
This devise costs around $70 and is very easy to use. Cold filtration coffee has been around for a long time. At our company, Mt. Hood Roasters Coffee Company, we sell the Filtron cold filtraion coffee brewing system which is considerably cheaper at $ 39.95.
The process of cold filtration is very easy to do but there are a couple of things you need to remember.
1. The coffee must be ground to a very course consistency. I wouldn't recommend buying ground coffee in a bag as it will not be course enough.
2. The filtration system creates a coffee syrup. The syrup is added to water or hot milk at a ratio of about 3:1 water:syrup. The instructions say 4 or 5 ounces of water to syrup but that will be very week.
3. The coffee produced has almost no tannens so is very smooth. The taste is a coffee taste but a little different than what one might be used to. I have found that it is good for 1 cup but too rich for multiple cups.
4. This process is ideal for summer iced coffees.
For the coffee fanatics out there...this is one of several items you may want to have in your coffee tool kit. I have had a lot of fun with it as the syrup can be used for brewing "coffee porter beers," added to food recipes, to make liquers, and as a base for bar drinks.
Try it...you will enjoy it.
By swag at 3:42 AM ON 08/08/09
Just imagine how great the coffee would be if it took 23 weeks to brew.
What kind of ridiculous logic are you using here?
By GermanCrazyGoat at 11:47 PM ON 08/09/09
Kinda sketchy huh? Oh well... at least it looks kool =D
By molly at 8:20 PM ON 08/10/09
By NoCoffee4me at 5:27 PM ON 08/14/09
I'm a night owl with a 8-5, and there are some mornings the mntdew does not cut it, i'll usually ice down some esspresso and chug-a-lug. This seems very promising for the non-mocha-muchachos to easily get a fix. Anyone have experience taking shooters of the concetrated concoction?
By Helen at 1:56 AM ON 12/30/09
you know if I read thia article a couple of montha ago, that would give me much food for thought. I don't want to give any advices, but have you ever thought how garmful is coffee for our health? nothing personal! I used to be a great coffee fan myself. but after reading some very impressive article I downloaded by http://rapid4me.com rapidshare search engine, I gave it up. no coffee-no problem! think about it.
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