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expireddubba-low | Staff posted Feb 18, 2026 01:01 AM
32-Oz Starbucks Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate (Madagascar Vanilla)
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Not being sarcastic. Looking for some recommendations
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I've tried a couple of these and they were all bitter as hell. Not tried Starbucks' version, but I'm a skeptic. Would love to hear what the good ones are.
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Not being sarcastic. Looking for some recommendations
Helps if you have a burr grinder** and you need to spend to get one that's worth buying (I recommend Encore Baratza) but you can buy a small amount of beans coarse ground (or buy some beans and take them to Trader Joe's and grind on a fairly coarse setting - not the coarsest but close to that) to see what you think about brewing it at home.
Use about a 1:5 ratio ground beans to water, put in a glass container with a lid, and let steep 15-21 hours on a counter (as long as house is about 70 degrees or cooler). If you can fill it almost full with water so there's little air space; put something on the top so it's not exposed to the air (a tight fitting lid is best, but anything that sits on top will help). You can experiment with different ratios of coffee to water; I like 1:8.
Pour it through a coffee filter - I just put a filter in my Melitta single pour and gradually pour the coffee through (there are other options but this was cheap for me as I had the Melitta already). Store the brew in the refrigerator, mix 1 part brew to 1 part water (adjust to your taste). You can drink with ice, or warm the mixture in the microwave if you want hot coffee.
Store mixture for up to about 2 weeks.
Different coffees brew optimally at different coarsenesses, so over time, you can experiment.
**While you can try with a blade grinder, that doesn't give the best brew because the grind isn't uniformly coarse - there are small little bits mixed in with coarser bits.
*When you try this for the first time, you could use a well-washed 1 quart mason jar (or 2 quart, if you happen to have one of those). But if you keep brewing, you'd probably want a bigger container. An 8 cup glass measuring cup with a lid (Anchor Hocking makes those) is what I use.
Burr grinders:
The Baratza Encore was about $150 2 years ago. But with tariffs, I'm sure it's a lot more expensive now, so at first, you might want to buy beans at a shop that will coarse-grind them for you if you don't have a good burr grinder already. I've had mine for almost 1.5 years and it is fabulous - absolutely no problems. With the Baratza Encore, I grind at about the 30 setting (the grinder goes up to 42).
Do NOT buy a cheap burr grinder - they are garbage. In particular, Bodum's burr grinder (used to be around $100) is garbage. Ground beans ALWAYS get in the internal workings of the casing and jam it up (even when the grinder was new; you had to hit it repeatedly with your hand to try to get the ground coffee to fall out of the bottom of the casing), plus it seems to have a thermal fuse which gets set off after about 15 seconds of grinding on coarse (don't even try fine grinds - the Bodum can't handle them). With the thermal fuse, it will re-set after a couple minutes, but who wants to have to go through that headache to grind a cup of beans? Lots of reviews out there report similar problems with Bodum - their burr grinder quality in the last 4+ years has been garbage. (Some people report better results with older grinders, but not the recent models.)
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brew your own! it's easy.
Helps if you have a burr grinder** and you need to spend to get one that's worth buying (I recommend Encore Baratza) but you can buy a small amount of beans coarse ground (or buy some beans and take them to Trader Joe's and grind on a fairly coarse setting - not the coarsest but close to that) to see what you think about brewing it at home.
Use about a 1:5 ratio ground beans to water, put in a glass container with a lid, and let steep 15-21 hours on a counter (as long as house is about 70 degrees or cooler). If you can fill it almost full with water so there's little air space; put something on the top so it's not exposed to the air (a tight fitting lid is best, but anything that sits on top will help). You can experiment with different ratios of coffee to water; I like 1:8.
Pour it through a coffee filter - I just put a filter in my Melitta single pour and gradually pour the coffee through (there are other options but this was cheap for me as I had the Melitta already). Store the brew in the refrigerator, mix 1 part brew to 1 part water (adjust to your taste). You can drink with ice, or warm the mixture in the microwave if you want hot coffee.
Store mixture for up to about 2 weeks.
Different coffees brew optimally at different coarsenesses, so over time, you can experiment.
**While you can try with a blade grinder, that doesn't give the best brew because the grind isn't uniformly coarse - there are small little bits mixed in with coarser bits.
*When you try this for the first time, you could use a well-washed 1 quart mason jar (or 2 quart, if you happen to have one of those). But if you keep brewing, you'd probably want a bigger container. An 8 cup glass measuring cup with a lid (Anchor Hocking makes those) is what I use.
Burr grinders:
The Baratza Encore was about $150 2 years ago. But with tariffs, I'm sure it's a lot more expensive now, so at first, you might want to buy beans at a shop that will coarse-grind them for you if you don't have a good burr grinder already. I've had mine for almost 1.5 years and it is fabulous - absolutely no problems. With the Baratza Encore, I grind at about the 30 setting (the grinder goes up to 42).
Do NOT buy a cheap burr grinder - they are garbage. In particular, Bodum's burr grinder (used to be around $100) is garbage. Ground beans ALWAYS get in the internal workings of the casing and jam it up (even when the grinder was new; you had to hit it repeatedly with your hand to try to get the ground coffee to fall out of the bottom of the casing), plus it seems to have a thermal fuse which gets set off after about 15 seconds of grinding on coarse (don't even try fine grinds - the Bodum can't handle them). With the thermal fuse, it will re-set after a couple minutes, but who wants to have to go through that headache to grind a cup of beans? Lots of reviews out there report similar problems with Bodum - their burr grinder quality in the last 4+ years has been garbage. (Some people report better results with older grinders, but not the recent models.)
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