New Orleans-Style Iced Coffee Kit: https://bluebottlecoffee.com/store/new-orleansstyle-iced-coffee-kit
New Orleans–Style Coffee and Chicory (coffee only): https://bluebottlecoffee.com/store/new-orleansstyle-coffee-and-chicory
Known affectionately as our NOLA, our New Orleans–Style Iced Coffee is one of our most popular drinks—year-round—and has been ever since our founder James Freeman started making it to sell at farmers markets in the San Francisco Bay Area. Casting around for a worthy iced-latte alternative, he stumbled upon the New Orleans tradition of serving sweet, milky coffee cut with chicory.
To make our NOLA at home, you start by brewing a cold brew base with assertive coffee flavor. When brewed with ground chicory, our New Orleans–Style Coffee is roasty, chocolaty, and holds its own when diluted with equal parts milk.
For cafe-quality results, we recommend using the Toddy Cold Brew System, but you can also make a very good New Orleans–Style Iced Coffee with a large pot and fine-mesh sieve.
Makes 8 servings
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BREW
Grinder
340 g New Orleans–Style Whole-Bean Coffee
28 g Ground Roasted Chicory
2 quarts room-temperature water
Toddy Cold Brew System
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SERVE
Tall glasses
Ice
Milk
Simple syrup (see note) or other preferred sweetener
STEP 1
Grind the coffee on a coarse setting. The grounds should be the size of kosher salt, similar to the grind used for a French press.
STEP 2
Insert the stopper into the Toddy brewing container. Dampen the reusable felt filter and place at the bottom of the container. Place the Toddy paper filter bag inside the container and pour in the ground coffee, chicory, and water. Stir until the grounds are fully saturated. Twist the top of the bag until closed and let steep for 12 hours at room temperature. Remove the stopper so that the cold brew is strained into the glass pitcher. Discard the paper filter and coffee grounds. Serve at once, or cover and refrigerate for up to 1 week.
TO SERVE
Fill tall glass with ice. Pour in equal parts NOLA concentrate and milk or other dairy alternative. Sweeten to taste with simple syrup or other preferred sweetener, and enjoy!
Notes: Instead of sweetening each NOLA to taste, you can sweeten the entire concentrate. In Step 3, after filtering it, adding ¼ cup simple syrup. To prepare the simple syrup: In a small pot, combine 3 tablespoons sugar with 3 tablespoons water and warm over low heat until dissolved. Note that while the unsweetened concentrate keeps for up to 1 week, sweetened concentrate should only be refrigerated for up to 2 days.
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