Iced Pour Over (Flash Brew)
As the weather gets hotter, there's nothing better than an iced pour over, or flash brew. Unlike a cold brew, which extracts slowly over long periods of time and tends to highlight sweetness over acidity, a flash brew extracts all the same qualities of a regular pour over in a slightly higher concentration and then cools instantly as it makes contact with ice. The result is bright, juicy, and incredibly refreshing. Here's a simple recipe to get you started.
What you’ll need
- 1x Pour Over Dripper
- 1x Grinder
- 1x Scale
- 1x Gooseneck Kettle
- 20 g of coffee
- 100 g of ice
- 200 g of 93 C/200 F water
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Assemble everything you’ll need from the list above
- Begin heating your water
- Weigh your 20 g of coffee and grind at a medium-fine grind (roughly the coarseness of sea salt)
- Place your paper filter in your dripper on your mug or carafe, and rinse with hot water
- Empty the hot water and place your mug/carafe and dripper on your scale
- Weigh 100 g of ice into your mug/carafe
- Pour your ground coffee into the dripper, and once the water reaches the desired temperature, start your timer and pour 40 g of water over your grinds in a circular pattern, ensuring that you wet all of your grinds
- At 45 seconds, pour more water until the total weight of water reaches 100 g
- Allow the water level to decrease slightly, then refill to the same level twice, pouring 50 g each time, so your total water weight equals 200 g by the end
- By 2 minutes 30 seconds, your coffee should be finished dripping. Remove the dripper and give your mug or carafe a swirl to melt any remaining ice. Combined with the melted ice, you will have a tasty 1:15 ratio iced coffee ready to enjoy!
Variables
As always, please feel free to adjust this recipe to suit your tastes.
- Too bitter? Try grinding coarser, lowering the temperature of your water, or pouring the water faster for a shorter total brew time
- Too weak? Try breaking up the pours into more intervals (as this creates more agitation and extends the total brew time), or try adding more coffee relative to water
- Too sour or strong? Try the opposite!
We hope you enjoy the recipe, stay cool!