Iced Coffee

Coffee by the tablespoon

So, most of you probably already know how to do this, and you've probably been doing it forever. But, I just (fairly) recently learned about it. And I'm just now getting around to blogging about it because I don't care about you or your morning happiness. Kidding! I'm just a slacker about taking pictures at 7 am. I'm always tired and grumpy.

Anyway. I owe my sweet friend Michelle all the credit for this post. She sent me this great email about how to do it, and it was hilarious and the perfect representation of what our friendship is like. I should just paste that email here. Oh wait, I deleted it. Okay, then.

What you need

1) Get some delightful whole bean coffee*.
2) Either get your coffee place to grind the beans for you or do it yourself. Either way, extra coarse. We have a fancy pants grinder that I either got from my Mom for Christmas or that I got as a wedding gift. I can never remember.
3) Put that coffee into your french press**. I've found that I like to make it a little stronger than I do with hot coffee. Maybe start with your normal ratio and increase if you want to.
4) Add cold water. Filtered if you care. Tap water if you don't. Mix well.
5) Cover the french press with some kind of lid or aluminum foil. You can use the top of the french press "unpressed", but that's too big for my fridge.
6) Refrigerate for at least 6 hours. I just do it when I get home for the night and drink it in the morning.
7) Wake up. Press it!
8) Pour it over ice, and flavor however you want. I pour it into a giant travel cup and sometimes add a little vanilla almond milk. Sometimes I drink it black and just nurse it for the first part of my day. If you like to sweeten, I'd say go with some kind of liquid sweetener, since sugar won't dissolve.

*We've been into Counter Culture Coffee and our local Cups Coffee. A has a coffee bean roaster but we've been too busy to give it any real love lately.
**Reportedly you can do a similar process with a mason jar and some kind of strainer. That makes sense in theory but I've never tried it. If you do try it, let me know. It seems like that's some next level homemaker stuff.