Potterverse characters and tea. - Cold Brew Coffee?

[Steve]

---  "P. Alexis Nguyen" <alexisnguyen at ...> wrote:
>
> ...
> 
> Ali:
> I would contend that cold-brewed coffee (also called a Toddy
> something or other or maybe it's something or other Toddy ...)
> is FAR superior to hot coffee ..., and even from a mid-quality
> bean, I managed to get very good coffee that I would normally
> only associate with a superior quality bean.  (Cold brew tends
> to brew a fairly strong coffee, too, so you can add hot water 
> if you want hot coffee.)
> 

bboyminn:

So... Cold Brew Coffee... ground coffee soaked in room 
temperature water for many hours until it become drinkable? 

Could you tell us your Cold Brewing Process? 


> 
> Carol:
> > However, I'll drink a cappuccino on a hot day. All the sugar
> > and flavoring (caramel, for example) covers up the sour 
> > taste of the cream, which probably happens with ice cream 
> > as well.
> 
> Ali:
> I think that you should just start keeping vanilla simple 
> syrup around and not mess with ice cream - I love ice cream &
> coffee, but milks and creams don't contain lactic acid because 
> they're not acidic somehow. Vanilla simple syrup + cold brewed 
> coffee = fabulous.  Trust me.
> 
> Now I go back to my thumb twiddling. Darn work making me stay
> even though I've finished my work for the day.  :(
> 
> ~Ali
>

bboyminn:

But Ice Cream Coffee is very different from Vanilla flavor
coffee. The goal it to have thick rich creamy flavored 
coffee. The 'Creamy' part being the most significant part. 

Personally, I find generally flavor coffees (vanilla, Amaretto,
pumpkin spice, etc...) to be a nasty pointless thing to do
to coffee. However, really good vanilla ice ceam in coffee is
a treat. As to re-warming the coffee, if you over do it, you
are probably right, but you don't have to re-warm it to 
boiling, just hot enough to drink. 

Two minutes in my microwave (an old one) from room temperature
to drinking hot is more than enough. To re-warm to drinkable
temperature would rarely be more than a minute. 

Just one man's opinion.

Steve/bboyminn