Believe it or not, spring is here. And while I am personally gunning for a mild summer, with spring comes rising temperatures, and with rising temperatures come ice-based drinks. On sale next month (June) is our Yeti Cold Press Blend. It was specially designed by Ryan to shine when brewed using a Toddy Maker, though it‘s a refreshing, well-rounded cup of coffee however you choose to brew it.

Taste Profile: This special cold press blend uses Central and South American beans to make an extraordinarily balanced and rich coffee concentrate. Mix it with water, ice, or milk.
Acidity: Low
Flavor: Smooth caramel acts with dark chocolate and smoky notes to create a magical tasting coffee extract.
Body: Full
Finish: Smoky
Roast: Full City to Dark
Source: Apecaform (Guatemala), Cecocafen (Nicaragua) & Cenfrocafe (Peru)

New to Toddy Makers and cold press coffee?

The basic steps are: Slowly pour 9 cups of cold filtered water into 1 pound of coffee ground at drip; approximately 12 hours later, the coffee extract is ready. It is well worth the wait.

Remember that cold press is a concentrate with about 3 times (this is a guess based on personal experience and not scientific fact) the amount of caffeine of a normal brewed cup of coffee.

The basic cold press recipe is 1/3 cold press, 1/3 water (or your favorite dairy or dairy-like product), 1/3 ice.

If you saw us at either the Food and Wine experience, or at the SCAA conference, you got to taste some cold press drink recipes that Ryan and Derek have perfected over the last year since our Yeti blend came into existence.

Ba-Na-Na Yeti-
1 cup Yeti cold press
1 cup ice
I banana
¼ cup maple syrup
1/3 cup half and half

Ice Ice Yeti-
4oz. Sparkling Water
4oz. Yeti cold press
1Tbls simple sugar syrup
2oz. Ice
2oz. Frozen base

Simple sugar syrup-
2 parts sugar
1 part water
Bring the water to a boil. Dissolve the sugar into the boiling water. Once the sugar is dissolved completely, remove the pan from the heat. Allow to cool completely and bottle.

Frozen base-
1 cup half & half
3 Tbls simple syrup
2 cups ice
add to blender & blend until smooth

Mixed up Yeti-
Approximate recipe for a Mixed-up Yeti. Adjust to your taste:
4oz. Vodka of your preference
2oz. Yeti cold press
1oz. or less of Frangelico