How to Brew the Best Coffee At Home

Oh, iced coffee. 

No one treats you right, do they? Internet videos have bastardized your name. Mega coffee houses have turned you into caffeinated milkshakes (one large black cocoa crème with cream and sugar, please). And every time an unschooled coffee shop employee pours hot coffee over ice, I can feel your pain.

Luckily there’s a new batch of cold-brew coffee diehards who are restoring what a great iced coffee should taste like: mellow, smooth, and far too flavorful on its own to warrant cocoa crème. One purveyor of cold-brew concentrate, Chameleon Cold-Brew, creates its product the old-school way, by saturating 100 percent organic Fair Trade Arabic ground coffee beans in cold water for 16 hours. The drained coffee that pours after the process contains none of the overpowering acidity of brews made with hot water, if you’re looking to taste a real cold-brew for little hassle. If you're interested in witnessing the process in action, all you need is Chameleon's advice for cold brewing at home, a bag of beans, bottled water, and a $35 toddy kit.

Try this cold-brew concentrate method and we’ll forgive you for all those times you turned to the sub-par stuff.

The Best Iced Coffee You’ve Ever Tasted

What you’ll need:

3/4 lb coffee beans
7 cups (1 ¾ quarts) bottled drinking water
Ice
Milk (optional)
Toddy maker

How to make it: 
1. Using a coffee grinder or food processor, grind the coffee beans, working in batches if necessary.

2. Insert the rubber stopper into the outside bottom of the plastic brewing container. Dampen the circular filter and insert it snugly into the inside bottom of the container. On a flat surface, fill the container with 1 cup of water. Add half of the ground coffee beans to the water. Slowly pour 3 more cups of water over the grounds. Add the remaining ground coffee. Allow the mixture to meld, about 5 minutes, and then slowly add the remaining water. Lightly press the top layer of grounds into the water with the back of a spoon to make sure they’re wet. 

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3. Place the brewing container in your refrigerator, uncovered, to “brew” for 12 to 18 hours.

4. Remove the brewing container from the fridge, place the glass decanter in the sink, pull the rubber stopper, fit the brewing container over the decanter, and allow the coffee concentrate to flow into the decanter. When the flow stops, dispose of the coffee grounds. The coffee concentrate will stay fresh in your refrigerator for 2 weeks. *Note, this recipe produces about 28 servings if each serving is 2 ounces.

Remember that you will need to dilute the serving of coffee concentrate with milk or water (we recommend one part concentrate to three parts additional liquid). Drinking cold-brew coffee concentrate straight is a stupid man’s game.

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