Brewing Cold Brew Coffee with Extract Brewing Equipment

[Christopher James]

Hello all,

Brand new here and first post! Thanks to all for reading.

Have been extract home-brewing for a couple of years now, but am starting to drink less beer and get more into wine recently. Have seen a lot of folks getting into coldbrew coffee recently. Is it possible to convert home-brew beer equipment into cold brew coffee equipment?

I keg my homebrew in a 5 gallon pony keg and use CO2 to pressurize. Can you use a similar setup for cold brew coffee or do you have to use nitrogen with coffee? If so, do you need a new keg/setup for nitrogen?

Thanks all!

 

[NeilMac]

Personal taste, cold brew is as simple as adding to a french/bodum press and let it sit for six hours and then pour.

 

[deadwolfbones]

You can make cold brew in a mason jar. You don't need homebrew equipment to do it.

If you want to make a huge batch and keg it, yeah, you could do it with a homebrew bucket and a fine-mesh bag a la Wilser. You'd definitely want to keg it (to avoid oxidation) and get a nitro system. Regular carbonation with coffee is weird.