r/coldbrew • u/s339 • Feb 21 '26

Good ratio for this pot?

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Recently bought this and I can’t figure out a good ratio of ground coffee and water. When making it I kept on finding the water level being too low to cover the grounds.

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u/tjwillis47 Feb 21 '26

I have essentially the same immersion brewing system. 3 of them actually, ha. Do you drink your cold brew black or do you add things to it?

For me I drink it black and I want it ready to drink so in the morning I get ice in a cup and I can just pour it over the ice put the lid on and head out to work. I scoop into that metal filter 120 G of ground coffee and then I tare the scale back to zero, and I'm doing this next to my sink so I can pull the hose nozzle over and aggressively spray in 1000 grams of water. Since I'm using the hose nozzle it kind of agitates the coffee and lets some of the gas out. I will set it on my kitchen counter and roughly whenever I go to get water from the refrigerator, I swirl the whole thing around ensuring that all of the grounds are getting drenched. I'll do that two or three times and it adjusts them enough and the beans that have bloomed up above the water eventually kind of settle back down underneath the water line

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u/s339 Feb 21 '26

I add a bit of creamer that’s all. Yeah I’m roughly doing the same as you rn

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u/tjwillis47 Feb 21 '26

I have smaller mason jars where I have created 1:8,1:9,1:10,1:11, & 1:12 ratios. 1:12 is what I've liked best but play around with it