{"id":14971,"date":"2025-05-02T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14971"},"modified":"2025-05-02T08:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:20:48","slug":"what-are-the-best-coffee-beans-for-cold-brew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14971","title":{"rendered":"What Are the Best Coffee Beans for Cold Brew?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Cold-brew coffee is<\/span> the gentlest of coffee: pleasant and sweet, made for warm days and chill thoughts. And so the best coffee beans for cold brew are not necessarily the same ones that make the most interesting drip or pour-over or espresso. It’s a different animal entirely from the volatile intensity of hot brew. Rather, it’s extracted gently over 12 or 24 hours to release the bean’s natural sweetness.<\/p>\n

I have my own thoughts, of course. I’ve tested more than a dozen cold-brew coffee makers in the past year for WIRED’s guide to the best cold-brew coffee makers<\/a>. But few have wrestled with this question more intensely than Maciej Kasperowicz, director of coffee at Trade Coffee, one of WIRED’s favorite coffee subscription companies<\/a>. With his team, Kasperowicz spent months putting together 90 coffees best suited for cold brew, to be included in Trade\u2019s new cold-brew coffee subscription<\/a>. Meanwhile, Brent Wolczynski, director of product development and cold brew at Portland’s Stumptown Coffee, has built one of the most distinguished caf\u00e9 and packaged cold-brew programs<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n

We consulted Kasperowicz and Wolczynski to ask about which beans make for great cold-brew coffee, which ones don’t, how you know, and the myths surrounding what makes for a good cold-brew cup.<\/p>\n

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