Iced coffee, for me, is pretty addictive. I love it. And living in Austin in the summertime, one needs to have a constantly available array of cool beverages from which to imbibe.
I grew up drinking both coffee and tea. My parents didn't withhold coffee from us, and we drank "coffee-milk" as children. It was a treat. We drank a ton of iced tea, unsweet, sometimes with mint or lemon and sometimes without. My mother always bought Lipton Decaffeinated tea bags, and this is my preference for iced tea today.
(You may be thinking that a southern gal drinking unsweet tea feels a bit blasphemous, but I grew up in the home of a dietitian, so just stay with me.)
Iced coffee came along in our home later in childhood, perhaps around my teen years when my mother began making a shaken iced coffee beverage with milk, sweetener and instant coffee. This luckily, has been replaced in both her home and pretty much everywhere with freshly brewed coffees.
I'm very partial to a cool cup of espresso, and will frequently stop for an iced cup of java while out and about, but for my own kitchen, I love cold brew iced coffee.
For a while, I thought it might be silly to have another kitchen accoutrement just for the purpose of making cold brew coffee, but once my parents bought one of these, I couldn't help myself and had to buy one!
I use my Toddy weekly in the summertime. It is pretty easy. You wet the filter and add seven cups of cold water and a pound of coffee grounds (alternating) to the plastic brewing container, let it sit overnight on the counter, then drain and store in your fridge for up to two weeks. My only complaint is that the Toddy carafe is more like a laboratory beaker and is pretty thin glass.
This cold brew coffee is lower acid, and unfortunately begs to be used up way too quickly! I like to use flavored coffees, too, which I don't normally drink. And this summer while nursing V2.0, I've switched to decaf cold brew, so that my wee one isn't overly caffeinated throughout her day.
Yum!
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