Three Cold Brew Recipes
By Tyler Workman
With the success of our Iced Coffee recipes, we've decided to roll out three Cold Brew recipes for the best Cold Brew at-home!
One of the questions we get often is: "What's the difference between Iced Coffee and Cold Brew?" The simple and short answer is that Iced Coffee is brewed hot (either at a concentrate, or a ready to drink ratio) then chilled after the brewing and served over ice. Cold Brew on the other hand is brewed with room temperature or cold water (either at a concentrate or a ready to drink ratio) for a much longer period of time.
With the long brew time of Cold Brew coffee and room temperature or cold water, it results in a much different flavor and with different characteristics than coffee that is brewed hot. For example, Cold Brew will typically taste much less acidic than coffee brewed with hot water, it will taste richer as opposed to coffee which was brewed hot, and it will taste much smoother than coffee that was brewed hot.
Cold Brew popularity has grown significantly in the U.S. over the past 10 years and has proven itself by being a smooth, rich, delicious way to enjoy cold coffee. We enjoy our cold brew with a splash of half and half and a touch of agave for decadent coffee drink that tastes like coffee ice cream.
Below are three of our favorite recipes for our KAHA Cold Brew Blend:
- 3 oz (85 g) of KAHA Cold Brew medium ground coffee (drip coffee consistency)
- 16 oz (473 ml) of cold or room temperature filtered or bottled water.
- Add your ground cold brew coffee to the mason jar.
- Pour your 16 oz (473 ml) of water to the mason jar.
- Using a spoon stir the water and coffee grind together to saturate grinds.
- Steep/Brew the coffee for 8 hrs at room temperature or refrigerated.
- Use a separate container, and some sort of paper coffee filter. It could be:
- Drip coffee filter basket with filter on top of a coffee pot
- Clever Dripper with filter on top of large jar or mug
- Chemex coffee maker with filter
- Any type of coffee filter over any type of vessel or container
- Pour the mixture of coffee grinds and water from the mason jar into the paper filter and over your dispensing vessel, carafe, etc. You may need to do in a couple of batches.
- Let drain completely.
- Yields about 12 oz of cold brew concentrate (1:6 ratio)
- Dilute to 1 part coffee, 2 parts water or milk, or to taste.

- 12 oz (340 g) of KAHA Cold Brew coarse ground coffee (French Press consistency)
- 8 cups (1.9 L) of cold or room temperature filtered or bottled water
- Place your Toddy paper filter bag into the brewing container and leave open.
- Pour your coarse ground coffee into the the paper filter bag
- Pour 8 cups of water into the paper filter bag over the coffee grinds. Gently use a spoon or spatula to ensure all coffee grinds are saturated.
- Tightly twist the top of the bag to close it.
- Steep/Brew the coffee for 12-24 hrs at room temperature or refrigerated
- Remove the stopper and let your coffee concentrate drain into the glass decanter.
- Remove and discard the paper filter and coffee grounds.
- Dilute to 1 part coffee, 2 parts water or milk, or to taste.

- 4 oz (113 g) of KAHA Cold Brew coarse ground coffee (French Press consistency)
- 24 oz (680 ml) of cold or room temperature filtered or bottled water.
- Add your coarsely ground cold brew coffee to the brewing container.
- Put on the OXO rain maker screen to the brewing container.
- Pour 24 oz (680 ml) of cold or room temperature filtered or bottled water into the rain maker screen to even disperse water over the coffee grinds.
- Steep/Brew the coffee for 12-24 hrs at room temperature or refrigerated.
- Place the brew container on top of the glass carafe to drain.
- Yields 12 oz of cold brew concentrate.
- Dilute to 1 part coffee, 2 parts water or milk, or to taste.
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