alexseanchai | (no subject)

Cold-brew coffee: meh.

I mean, it's perfectly tasty when doctored with milk and honey? (and a squirt of Hershey's dark chocolate syrup.) But so is hot-brew coffee, done the same and then chilled.

And I'll grant that option (1), being able to go to the fridge tomorrow (and Tuesday and Wednesday probably, because there's about three cups left in this batch), grab the mason jar, pour a cup, add the milk and honey (and squirt of chocolate syrup), and drink it straight away, will be much more convenient than option (2), having to put water and coffee filter and coffee grounds in the coffeepot, plug it in, turn it on, wait, forget it's percolating, remember it's been percolating, pour the cup, add milk and honey (and a squirt of chocolate syrup), and stick it in the freezer for forty-five minutes to get it drinkably cool. Four steps before "drink" (six if we separate out the additives), instead of eight (or ten or twelve).

I'll bet the coffee grinder uses less electricity than the coffee percolator, too. Certainly it takes less time plugged in.

So I'm going to keep on with cold-brew. But all y'all who said cold-brew isn't bitter? Lied to me.

(Though it may well be a lot less bitter than hot-brew. I'm not sure I believe this, but it's possible. I have forgotten my point of comparison and I am not going to go fiddle with the coffeepot to get a new one.)

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...yeah, no, you can't make coffee that isn't at all bitter. You can make less bitter, but you can't avoid it altogether because alkaloids are basically what you're prising out of the dang bean. I hadn't quite paid attention to all of the coffee stuff because my caffeine poison of choice is iced tea, or I'd have warned you that it probably would still be bitter.

I would not be at all surprised if you're a "supertaster", though! I think that maybe a lot of people who aren't sensitive genuinely can't taste the bitterness in cold brew.

(I know I am because I have had the silly paper test with the three major ones and made ALL OF the faces, as

synecdochic and

sarahq like doing SCIENCE! on their friends. Apparently Sarah only tastes paper! It is bewildering to me. HOW DO YOU NOT TASTE THE HORROR, etc.)

I don't know about supertaster? But it was really bitter.