Why does hot coffee that goes cold taste bad, but iced coffee or cold brew taste fine?
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I hope this comment can stay up. To add onto the reply about aromatics: you can preserve them and easily make delicious iced coffee quickly at home by brewing your coffee regularly, stirring it (a little aeration really helps coffee taste better according to blind taste tests), pouring it into a good mason jar all the way up and lidding it tightly (scary I know), putting that jar into an ice + water bucket so it’s covered completely, putting that whole bucket arrangement into the freezer for ~15 minutes, you end up with coffee that is ice cold; uses your trusted recipe; and tastes the same but cold. I work in an award winning espresso bar and this is the way we do it when we want to make a special batch.
Otherwise using more ground coffee and brewing directly over ice (about half of the normal water by weight) is standard but you really gotta fine tune the grind settings and amounts of water and beans (by weight). It’s easier small scale to not change your recipe and use the double ice sarcophagus method.
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