Roasting for immersion Cold Brew

lukemc

Hey guys. I’ve been approached to roast for someone who wants to take nitro cold brew to farmers markets.

I’m led to believe that lighter roasts (think filter style) don’t work well as cold brew due and that you require a slightly darker roasted (think normal espresso not supermarket espresso roast) and a “punchier blend” to really get much out of it.

What are your thoughts?

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Koffee_Kosmo

The roast depth that is best in my cold brew trials is to roast beyond past 1st crack and go to a roast depth just before second crack KK

lukemc

Thanks KK that’s what I was thinking as well. More than filter less than traditional espresso for milk based. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

askthecoffeeguy

I've done a lot of roasts for cold brew and it depends what outcome you're trying to achieve sometimes a filter roast can bring out lovely fruit flavours but it needs to be gve right bean suited to this profile also i prefer to age my coffee so that the oils are just starting to come to the surface, as it's the oils that you're trying to capture in the cold brew, and yes, a darker than usual roast can help to achieve this !

lukemc

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Brett_H

askthe coffeeguy wrote:

I've done a lot of roasts for cold brew and it depends what outcome you're trying to achieve sometimes a filter roast can bring out lovely fruit flavours but it needs to be gve right bean suited to this profile also i prefer to age my coffee so that the oils are just starting to come to the surface, as it's the oils that you're trying to capture in the cold brew, and yes, a darker than usual roast can help to achieve this !

Well said mate!! I completely agree with this. When I've had a cold-brew that is all citrus and berries I can't help but lusting after something that actually tastes like coffee 😃

Brett_H

Lol

askthecoffeeguy

Brett H wrote:

Lol

so accurate and we'll put!