Cold Brew vs. Iced Coffee: What’s the Difference

i'll take an iced coffee you mean a cold brew or a nice coffee what's the difference [Music] hey guys welcome to coffee shop vibes welcome to east biari coffee house this is the youtube show that helps you enhance your specialty coffee shop experience i'm mike my wife and i we fell in love with coffee fell in love with going to coffee shops and that led us to start east bre coffee two years ago at the start of the pandemic we actually opened east piari coffee house uh it became one of america's top rated coffee houses so that's been awesome and it's been an awesome journey for us each day we meet new people we explore we're always innovative in the world of coffee we've actually tried coffees now from roasted in every state in america and we're always innovating with our drinks again this is coffee shop vibes and today i'm going to share with you cold brew versus iced coffee we'll first start by talking about what specifically is cold brew and how to make it all right so cold brew people come in the shop all the time and say i'll take an iced coffee and i'll be like you mean cold brew yes i also work part time as a barista we should clarify that for people who don't know anyway but there is a massive difference we do not serve iced coffee here uh and i'll tell you why when we talk about what iced coffee is a lot of specialty coffee shops do and some some will actually serve both all right so what we do with cold brew um is cold brew here it is okay it is a coffee uh that is steeped there's many ways you can make coffee many contractions or you know whatever processes pieces of equipment that will brew something using ground coffee right cold brew is when you take finely ground coffee and let it steep it comes out to this now there are a few characteristics about it and i'm going to talk a little bit more about the process of how you make cold brew after i fill this up so there it is famous cold brew you typically see um them pour kind of the the cream in it and has that nice soothing flow through it anyway cold brew very rich highly caffeinated more caffeine in cold brew than there is in a cup of coffee just so you know because it's steeped so how we make coffee at the cold brew the coffee house is we use this yes i think this is 10 gallon bucket that can make up to like nine gallons of cold brew or such um anyway making about five or six pound batches five or six gallon batches excuse me which uses about five or six pounds of coffee the ratio is almost one to one i like to net out one gallon of cold brew for every pound of coffee so it's a much more concentrated coffee this has a bucket inside suspends it in um it will actually sit in this for we like to do it for 18 hours everybody has their own you know own time frame but at least 12 to 24 hours you let finally or finally you let very coarse ground coffee sit in water the water can be room temperature it can sit out in a room uh it's just steeping same as you would steep if you have a tea bag now that produces a very very very kind of smooth drink because it's not brewed under heat where coffee is being brewed around 195 to 200 degrees um when the when the hot water hits the coffee to extract the flavor this it just steeps like a tea would steep and it comes out to be a nice smoother crisper cup you know different blends will have a different flavor profile i feel the flavor profile file is brought out a little bit more with cold brew you know we actually designed a cold brew um we designed coffee or designed a coffee blend with cobra in mine so we thought about what blends would make the best or what coffees would make the best cold brew and that's how we came up with what we call our allegheny cold brew blend here at the coffee house which we do sell by the way anyway long story short you can make cold brew with any coffee uh if the coffee is more acidic or has kind of more um more like a grapefruit flavor to it it's going to take a lot of the acidity out because that's the nature of steeping a coffee this is going to be super smooth has a little crisp bite at the end of it um that's how most of them are each one's going to bring out different flavor profile it is going to be a lot different not a lot but it's going to be noticeably different from what it would taste like as a coffee because the extraction method is different so what is iced coffee well iced coffee is served at a lot of specialty coffee houses i don't know why i feel that it's much more popular to serve cold brew but it is and it's very simple well i know why because a lot of these coffee houses have very expensive coffees cold brew it actually costs more to make cold brew they like the flavor profile of their coffee so what they'll do is flash chill as they say the coffee but it's very simple and temperature does matter when it comes to brewing coffees two or three degrees one way probably not but we're talking about 197 degrees is what we brew coffee at uh compared to cold brewed what best case 65 degrees right that's a big gap and that really matters as long as how much contact it is with the water so anyway when you're getting coffee to coffee shop it's probably going to be brewed right around 197 degrees and as soon as that coffee comes out uh some specialty coffee shops will take lots of ice we'll take their freshly brewed coffee whether it's a chemex or or uh brewer whatever it may be and simply pour it over of course that causes the ice to melt there you have it iced coffee now the reason we don't like iced coffee here again personal taste right is because it causes a lot of ice to melt so it kind of waters down your coffee depending on how fast you sip this chug this and it's i'm thirsty so different characteristics again you can taste more acidity in the iced coffee um but again it's a longer process to make cold brew some some places just simply will serve you a glass of iced coffee you can put the cream in this and it can have that aesthetic feel as well but two differences this is cold brew this is iced coffee now again recapping cold brew it's made by steeping like tea it takes anywhere between 12 and 24 hours it's made with very coarse coffee the flavor profile of this should be smooth and crisp it's going to have a much less acidity and i forgot to mention this one of the kickers about cold brew is because it's brewed by steeping it actually has a shelf life cold brew can easily last a week we don't like to serve past a few days at the coffee house but it'll still taste fresh even up to a week and you can if you want it hot but you just have a jug of cold brew well you can even put it in the microwave or warm it up somehow and uh it will taste good much longer shelf life iced coffee of course this is going to get watered down hot coffee in general will have a shelf life of about two to four hours maximum probably two hours and it's really going to start to change its flavor profile so you want to drink this pretty quickly again it's going to be ice down or water down a little bit if it melts and which it will but it will have more of the characteristics of the coffee just a little bit of a chill to it so iced coffee versus cold brew that's the difference again make sure you know what your coffee shop is serving a lot of coffee shops especially coffee shops now serve cold brews some only serve iced coffee some serve both and there is a difference all right guys hey thank you for watching if you ever have any questions about coffee don't hesitate to reach out uh we love to talk coffee love to share the world especially coffee especially coffee shops especially coffee with you so feel free to post your questions send us an email anyway guys take care we'll see you soon in another edition of coffee shop vibes

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Keywords: cold brew, cold brew coffee, iced coffee, specialty coffee, coffeeshop, barista

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Length: 8min 6sec (486 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 22 2022