ULTIMATE FLASH BREW RECIPE: My Approach to Iced Coffee

Cold brew doesn't suck if you like it. I just abhor it. Regardless, give this a try if keen to shake things up a bit!
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0:00- Cold Brew Sucks (to me)
1:34- Typical Approach
6:40- My Approach
11:28- Tasty Taste and Hugo Sighting
12:06- Recipe TLDW

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[LanceHedrick]

LISTEN! Cold Brew doesn't suck if you like it! I just really, really can't stand it. Sorry if I ruffled feathers! It's fine to enjoy musty coffee filtered through sweaty socks with no perceived acidity or really anything that makes coffee interesting. ha! Ok. That's enough trolling. Love you all- cold brew or iced coffee. Hugs and kisses.

[BennyBanano]

Just made it in written form for myself, might as well share :)

Ingredients:

20g coffee, ground at around 20/40 on a Wilfa Svart Uniform grinder

300g water (240g at 93C° for brewing, 60g for ice)

Steps:

Bloom 20g coffee with 60g water for 1 minute.

Pour water up to 150g, wait for 45 seconds.

At 1:45, pour up to 240g water.

Give a gentle swirl to flatten the bed.

Let it drain completely.

Add 60g of ice to the brewed coffee, stir until cooled to 5-10°C.

Pour the cooled coffee over a cup of ice.

Enjoy!

[Garrett__H]

I purposefully turned the volume up when I started this video. The faces my wife made during the cold brew intro were hilarious. She loves her cold brew. Great video and informative. I had been doing the 60/40, but will for sure try this. Thanks, Lance!

[matthewjustinrupp]

I’ve been doing the traditional flash brew method for years and always had that worry that you addressed but my brain tends to overcomplicate things. This seems super simple and absolutely logical, I’m going to try this right now. Thanks, man!

[outsidegamut]

Just brew entirely with clean hot water and place the carafe into an ice bath afterwards. Use a milk frother to speed up the cooling process. It works perfectly. Why dilute your coffee with water that sat in your freezer when you can use ice only for the heat transfer?

[ToddParker]

I like cold brew. I also like the Japanese ice coffee. I also like a slow drip tower method. I am basically an iced coffee junkie, so I will try this because I think it is a good idea :)

[brentc]

I use the hyper chiller as others have mentioned. I have even set my orea v3 directly on top of the chiller and brewed directly into it. It then acts a lot like the chilled frozen ball extraction stuff. Another nice video Lance. Especially the mention of ice quality mattering too.

[nadav_david]

I just use whiskey stones and a chilled vessel to cool my regular pour over recipe, works amazing and you get a we extracted chilled cup, it does require more planning though

[mr.ricochet]

One of my first drinks in the specialty coffee space was a cold brew and I was surprised at how "boring" the cup was. After I started brewing myself I came to the same conclusion, ofc it tastes bland at such a low extraction. Thank you for testing the variables for us, now that my hunch is backed by the Lance-science I'm gonna do it for sure.

[sniffsnob]

My current simple recipe is the flash ice drip. But replacing ice with frozen whiskey stone/steel. Those definitely doesn’t dissolve and it cool your coffee really really fast.

[Pekzr]

I have done in a similar way, but I like to put the whole decanter in cold water for a few minutes and add the ice. That way can get it down to about room temp before you add the ice and you get less dilution.

[Teh_O_Ice]

The chemist in me is thinking " why not simply put the whole jug in an ice bath during or just after brewing it normally?"

[anthonym]

I mean I really like cold brew, but I'm super stoked to try out this recipe and brew method. Seems like no matter what you do with coffee that there isn't 1 "right" way to brew a certain coffee or a "wrong" way. I've got a feeling I'll be coming back to this video quite a few times until I memorize this recipe.

[xipalips]

Flash brew is my standard cup of coffee even in winter! I pour mine into a thermos, sip a little for myself to start the day (and so the rest of the brew will fit + ice) and then take it to work. I find my hot coffee does not hold well in those conditions where I need it to last another 4 to 5 hours, and I don't have the time in the morning to wait for it to chill to drinkable temperatures and then consume it on top of that.

[bren.r]

I’ve been using a V60 brewed directly into a hyper chiller every morning and it’s worked great for me.

[bobbrown]

Honestly I add like 30ml of hot water to instant coffee and add rest cold tap water. I chug it down, not the best thing in the world but it’s cold and has caffeine.

[liamstanwell]

Something ive experimented with recently is doing a little bloom with boiling water, sort of a 2:1 water to coffee, and then after 60 seconds dumping in my cold filtered water and letting it brew in the fridge for 12 hours. Brings that beautiful crunchy acidity that regular cold brew lacks

[juliendaoust]

Ideas to try!
1-Aeropress receive my let you increase the extraction?!
2-Stainless steel cube for Alchool drink my down the temp. without dilute the drink?!
3-bring the temp down with liquid nitrogen 😅
Awesome video Lance keep going men!

[ToxicManfly]

I use frozen stainless steel "ice cubes" to make iced coffee. It works well. I get "iced coffee" without it being watered down at all.

I have 3 steps:
1. Brew coffee normally
2. Put coffee in cocktail shaker with some SS ice cubes and shake it up to cool it down. 4-8 cubes works depending on the amount of coffee. This is roughly equivalent to the stirring step you did in the video.
3. Put some new SS cubes in a glass/mug and pour the cocktail shaker contents in


This results in a super cold and refreshing "iced" coffee with no additional water added in. Same exact ratio as your preferred hot brew.

[ShaunSpruch]

I use the Cold Wave flash chiller. Brew usual filter coffee however I like, and then flash chill, no dilution at all. really amazing!