Sous Vide Cold Brew Coffee
Cold brew coffee in a fraction of the time with this easy sous vide cold brew coffee recipe. This easy to follow guide will have you sipping a delicious coffee in no time.
Ingredients
Cold brew:
- 1 cup coarse ground coffee
- 8 cups filtered water
Serving:
- half + half or coffee cream to taste
- sugar to taste
Instructions
Make the cold brew:
- Prepare your sous vide water bath to a temperature of 150f.
- Meanwhile, combine 1 cup coarse ground coffee with 8 cups filtered water in a mason jar.
- Close the mason jars and seal the lids finger-tight.
- Use kitchen tongs or jar lifters to lower the jars into the prepared water bath.
- Cook the coffee sous vide at 150f for 2 hours.
- Once complete, remove the jars from the water bath and allow them to cool to room temperature before straining. Use a Chemex coffee brewer, a french press, or a fine-mesh sieve lined with a coffee filter or flour sack towel.
- Rinse the mason jar (s) and pour the strained cold brew coffee back into the jar (s) for storage in the fridge.
Make a coffee:
- Mix 1 part water and 2 parts coffee with a handful of ice in a cup and top off with cream.
Notes
Batch
A single batch of this sous vide cold brew will make ~1 litre of concentrate. This recipe can be infinitely scaled. Just keep the ratio the same - 8 parts water : 1 part ground coffee- 4 cups water : 1/2 cup ground coffee
- 8 cups water : 1 cup ground coffee
- 16 cups water : 2 cups ground coffee
Storage:
Once brewed and strained, your sous vide cold brew coffee can be kept in a mason jar, or other airtight container in the fridge for up to 7 days.