Organic cold brew coffee is the coffee you should drink regularly if you’re a cuppa joe in the morning type of person… and if you care about your health.
Regular coffee is one of the most tainted sourced ingredients in our daily lives. And while organic coffee can be a tad more expensive, what is your health worth?
If you experience brain fog or less sharp short-term memory, it’s worth the switch to organic cold brew coffee.
These are just a few organic cold brew coffee benefits:
☕️ You can make and drink cold brew coffee faster than you can wait for hot coffee to brew (and wait for it to cool).
☕️ Cold brew also has health benefits. It’s less acidic than regular hot coffee or espresso (from the cold brewing process. Of course… I’m telling you all this because I’ll show and describe to you how you can make your own below in case you’ve never done before.).
☕️ And because of less acidic benefit, you may not need to eat your first meal first before your first cup. Many of us wake up groggy and we want our coffee, but first need a soft pillow food that’s not the easiest when you’re not quite ready yet for eating because you eat later (prolonging fasting from the night before) or aren’t yet hungry.
☕️ If coffee tears up your stomach or gives you heartburn, then cold brew coffee could be a good option if you don’t wanna give it all up. Or if you want a lighter cup of coffee in your day, this could be the way to go!
☕️ Cold brew coffee is great for hot weather days as your coffee is served cold after being refrigerated.
For the past 2 years, I switched to only cold brew coffee that is starting to catch on. You can find a small section in your grocery store that offers cold brew selections. But I think you can make it easily at home, and it can be a mindful, relaxing activity.
If you knew me, you know I like to zhugh up any food or beverages (probably from my catering background), so I’ll share how I do that too!
What you need for basic cold brew coffee:
-Ground coffee
-Mesh catcher (with a lip or rim)
-Coffee filters
-Spoon
-Water
-Deep bowl at least 6” high/deep OR pitcher with a large opening almost or just slightly larger than the mesh catcher diameter is ideal (but as long as most the mesh catcher sits inside the pitcher, it’ll work).
If you use a pitcher, you won’t need another pitcher to pour your finished coffee into as your cold brew coffee can go straight into the pitcher and fridge.
Setup:
Bowl: Find or buy a right-size mesh catcher that works comfortably for your cold brew coffee prep setup, where the coffee filter fits in easily.
Rest the mesh catcher to then rest on top of the bowl.
Set the coffee filter to sit in the catcher as flat or parallel to the table surface as best it can, so you don’t have coffee and water in the filter dripping or tipping over. Then you have your bowl setup.
Or…
Pitcher: You can put your filter/catcher ontop of a wider-opening pitcher. If you use a pitcher, you want most of the bottom half of the catcher to sit inside the pitcher so your coffee brewing doesn’t spill over in the sides.
So then you have your setup from one of the options above. Good job!
Next, you can bring on the coffee. I like to make cold brew coffee in the morning to get a good whiff of the coffee grounds, and as a relaxing mindful activity.
You can even pull out your setup the night before if you just want to make a cup in the morning. Mind you, the fresh-made coffee will be warmer than if you refrigerated but that’s actually better for you in the morning when you’re getting your day started. Your stomach prefers room temperature liquids.
In choosing the coffee type, use ground coffee. It’s better to use a mix of superfine ground coffee and a coarser ground coffee so the grounds don’t filter through the filter. They’re grounded 😉
Coffee Choices:
I’m a Vata who prefers variety for coffee choices. I like to mix it up (maybe that’s you too?) and that helps for satiating preferences, seasonal cravings, and help restore imbalances.
I might use a bag of finely grounded coffee, and a coarser ground coffee. Any ground coffee will work but some work better than others.
I didn’t grow up drinking coffee, and maybe you did and you like the one you grew up with, so you can go with that or try a new one.
BTW, they say people like to use the same clean linen laundry detergent they grew up with, but I think that’s just certain people as we have so many options these days. Who’s they anyway? I actually like the evolving, improved formulas that have light citrusy or no fragrances. To each her own!
I re-use those finished coffee containers and bags for my green recycling house projects. I may send some out idea vibes on how I repurpose grocery plastic containers in the future as I don’t like waste 😊
Anyway, where was I?
Back to coffee-talk ☕️ … next, to start making cold brew coffee pour your ground coffee mix (about 1/2 cup to ¾ cup total coffee grounds total) in the filter (that’s already sitting in the catcher and bowl/pitcher).
A good tip is, mix the ground coffees up in your filter with a spoon before you pour in water to possibly prevent fine ground coffee from filtering through your filter like I mentioned above.
Once you have selected the ground coffee and setup: Continue reading “Organic Cold Brew Coffee Benefits”