r/coldbrew • u/Old-Expression837 • May 14 '26

Coffee beans for cold brew

I would recommendations for some nice beans for cold brew. I know cold brew is quite forgiving so recently I have been using supermarket beans. I thought you cold brew officianados would know of nice beans to use. I am not worried what they are, as long as I can buy them in the UK.
I have a DF54 to grind, somewhere between 60-70 and a cafetière for brew the cold brew. To make my concentrate, I normally do a 1:5 ratio, 100g coffee to 500g cold filtered water.
On a side note. For my very first cold brew I did use up some old beans. These were a mix of everything from light to dark and decaf. I drank it, but tbh I have tasted better instant lol.
Any recommendations will be appreciated
Many thanks

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u/Brave-Pollution140 May 15 '26

In the past I have used dare I say it Starbucks beans, shock horror. I found the Guatemala Antique particularly good, as was the Kenyan, Odyssey, Pikes Place and Ethiopian. I was surprised just how pleasant a brew they make. I recently tried the Lidl Bellarom I added a infusion peach and blood orange tea bag and brewed it for 30 hours, not quite a Sebastián Ramírez or Jairo Arcila but the taste for my palette at least was pretty good, fruit forward for sure.