2nd Cold Brew!

I had said I'll do another cold brew on the 3rd Feb night but it didn't happen. *sorry* i got carried away by personal matters... :p To be honest, I almost abandoned the project after doing some further reading on cold brew. Apparently there was this other "Japanese" method that was better for making ice coffee. You basically just do drip coffee directly over ice so the coffee cools down instantly. The coffee is supposed to be as good as the cold brew method I've tried and best of all, it's fresh. I got sucked into the point that cold brewed coffee would oxidise and become stale after a few days. So, it won't be good and it made me not want to try it. BUT, I regained my senses and got back to the root reason why I wanted to do cold brew was that I wanted to make good coffee once over and keep it for a few days so I could make breakfast affairs more efficient. Yeap, so I'm back to the business of trying out cold brew:

(*clap*clap* this time i put more effort to take picture to document my process ^_^ )

Step 1: Grinding and pouring 2-Aeropress-spoons of finely ground coffee into my 3-cup Bodum french press.

Step 2: Pour room temperature water into the container. Note: I thought my last try was diluted and wanted to add less water to the grounds but somehow as I started to seriously measure 4:1 ratio, the water turns out to be more than the last time!! And since what's done cannot be undone, I just left it as is...

Step 3: Stirring the mixture after 10minutes to "agitate" it.

Step 4: Sealing the container and leave it for 24 hours!!

tick-tock-tick-tock...

        After 24 hours...

Step 5: Remove seal and press to separate grounds from the coffee.

Step 6: Since I have no drip cups and filters, I decided to use the Aeropress as filter. ... yeap.

Step 7: Waiting for the coffee to drip through. *yawnz* It was taking damn long... zzz

It took so long to drip (like an hour or so!) that I gave up the last bit! Poured those still in the Aeropress back into the Bodum and continued doing whatever else I need to... ha. impatient me.

Alrighty. Here's what I have- cold coffee. Somehow I couldn't resist heating some of it in the microwave. This time I did 15+5seconds (15s - coffee wasn't warm enough so i did another 5s. however, it still wasn't hot and i didn't want to warm it longer than that due to bad experience with burnt smell the last time) and there wasn't a burnt smell. /hmmm. Strange. Coffee was lukewarm but tasted fine. No strong aromas (like the last time) but its taste was very similar (but definitely not the same) to the hot version. Not bad!

Took another sample and added hot water to it. 1:1 ratio. Well... there was a certain new taste I can't describe. Didn't taste as much like the hot version as the microwaved one. Maybe its just the taste of water. 

Lastly, I'm keeping 50ml of the concentrate in the fridge so I can try heating up tomorrow to see if it's good! I hope it is. It's really a good way to speed up coffee making in the mornings, especially when I need to rush somewhere. Will update you the results and draw a conclusion tomorrow!!