It's Toddy season people! It's warming up and I only want cold brewed coffee from here on out! Toddy is a trademarked cold brewing system but is synonymous with any sort of cold brewed coffee. No longer do we just throw ice cubes in our otherwise warm coffee! Grodie! Who wants watered down coffee!? Cold brewing refers to steeping your grinds in room temp or cold water for an extended period of time. This process of slowly extracting flavor from the beans produces a different chemical profile than conventional brewing methods. The result seems a bit sweeter due to lower acidity and much more concentrated. This brew will definitely kick you into high gear! Last year around the holidays I was gifted this amazing Toddy maker by Corina Guillory of The Coffee Sock Co. I'm so excited to finally use it!
I've known Corina for many moons, she being a long time customer of the market I used to run. Her company makes reusable, organic cotton coffee filters, tea bags and cold pressed coffee kits...genius! She hand sews all of the bags!
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HERE is a list of her products. Corina is incredibly sweet and crafty and I am so proud of her! You can purchase her products or find out where to buy them HERE.
So...now we know what Toddy is but how do we brew it!? It's easy folks. The Coffee Sock Co. Cold Brewer comes with simple instructions to help you out.
Here's what you do:
1. Grind your beans COARSE. Muy importante. Like so:
2. Keep your Coffee Sock folded over your jar and fill with the grinds. Corina suggests 2 cups of grinds per 7 cups of liquid. So fill that bad boy with roughly 2 cups grinds.
3. Pour water over grinds to make them bloom. Simply wet (not soak) them for about a minute. You will see the grinds rise and break apart a bit...like a muffin rising.
4. Add 7 cups of cold water to your grinds. You will see the water seeping out like so:
5. Tie up your Sock. I wrapped the string around LOOSELY and then placed the ring around it. You don't want to wrap the Sock too tightly.
6. Place in fridge for roughly 12 hours.
7. Pull out sock and enjoy!
These Socks are reusable. Just rinse out, dry and use over and over again!
