Make Iced Pour Over Coffee At Home
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Iced Pour Over Coffee is a refreshing and easy way to enjoy flavourful pour over coffee as a cool refreshing drink. By brewing your coffee with hot water you're able to extract a lot more flavours and nuances from your coffee beans and serving over ice allows you to enjoy this at the a refreshing cool temperature.
Making Iced pour over coffee can be done with a Hario V60 dripper ( a super common and inexpensive way to start making pour over coffee ). And doesn't require any additional expensive tools. You can easily make iced pour over coffee using a Hario V60 dripper, one of the most popular brewers available. If you're just getting started, you can buy Hario V60 Dripper here.
What is an Iced Pour Over Coffee?
Simply put and Iced Pour Over Coffee is coffee Brewed hot, served over ice but balanced to have the coffee to water ratio unaffected by the additional ice.
Iced Pour Over Coffee Ratio
Pour over coffee usually sits at a coffee to water ratio of 1:15 to 1:17. Because we're using ice in our final beverage we need to calculate how much water to use, to do this accurately you first have to think about how much coffee you're making.
For 1 cup of coffee a 20g dose of beans times by a 1:15 ratio = 300g Total Brew Weight.
To work out how much ice we need we then divide the total brewed coffee weight (300g) by 2, this gives us 150g of hot water, 150g of ice and 20g of ground coffee to make coffee for 1 person.
This is our workings out but feel free to play around using more or less water and more or less Ice, just make sure your overall ratio stays within the ballpark of 1:15 to 1:17.
Grind Size for Iced Pour Over Coffee
Grind size remains super important for making this style of coffee, when making a normal pour over coffee your grind size is the main variable that alters the speed of which your coffee will flow from the coffee dripper (aka 'coffee flow rate' ). But the key difference whilst making iced pour over coffee is that you're using a lot less water to brew with, to counteract this, using a finer grind size will aid in slowing down your coffee flow rate and increase the contact time of your coffee grounds and brew water.
This results in a balanced tasting pour over coffee with a stronger tasting thicker body, the moment your coffee starts to taste weak and watery you want to first adjust your coffee grind size to a finer setting.
Which Coffee Dripper To Use?
As we previously mentioned, extending the contact time between the coffee and water helps create a bolder and stronger tasting cup of coffee. While there are some techniques you can use whilst brewing to extend this contact time you can also opt for a slow pouring coffee dripper or even better you can control the exact time your coffee brews for.
Enter the Hario V60 Switch Dripper, this dripper is available in both glass or ceramic and Hario has absolutely cooked when it comes to designing and manufacturing this coffee brewer. Essential the Hario V60 Switch features a regular V60 dripper that is inserted into a silicone base with a valve, this valve mechanically opens and closes to stop or allow your brewed coffee to completly pass through. Giving you full control over your coffee to water contact time and overall brew time.
Best Coffee Filter To Make Iced Pour Over Coffee
Just how we want to use a slow dripper and finer grind size when brewing iced pour over coffee it's also in our best interest to use a medium or slow flowing coffee filter.
You can find a list of the slowest pouring coffee filters here but if you're looking for something that is more of a medium flow rate and is suitable to be used for normal pour over coffees as well as iced pour over recipes I recommend checking out the Cafec Abaca Filter Papers and the Cafec T-90 Medium Roast Profile Filters.
Iced Pour Over Coffee Recipe
- 20g Filter Roasted Coffee Beans
- Water: 150g
- Ice: 150g
- Coffee Grinder
- Hario V60 Dripper
- Coffee Filter
- Coffee Scale
- Glass or Server
If you are interested in making this recipe at home but don't have the equipment listed above you can buy coffee gear here.
How to Make Iced Pour Over Coffee
- Start by placing your coffee filter into your Hario V60 dripper and pre-wetting it with hot water, this helps to both remove the papery taste and to set your coffee filter in your dripper correctly. Just make sure to discard of this water before brewing.
- Gently place 150g of ice into your coffee server or cup and pour your 20g of coffee grounds into your Hario V60.
- Start pouring your first 50g of water over your coffee grounds to bloom, all this to draw down and flow over the ice cubes at the bottom.
- Finish off by pouring an additional 100g of water and allow for this to draw down too.
