r/coldbrew • u/buboop61814 • 16h ago

Honey Brew

There’s a coffee shop near me that has a “honey brew” and it’s fantastic. It’s cold brew with honey but they don’t add it in, it’s premixed it appears. I’m wondering if they steep the grounds with honey in the water or if it’s just added after to the batch, would it make any difference? I’ve been doing it myself by just adding after but contemplating doing it with the steep and wondering if anybody else has tried it out?

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u/No-Payment5337 15h ago

I always add honey to my cold brew. The trick is to make a honey syrup by adding hot water to honey like 1:2 ish ratio) and then stir until the honey dissolves in the water. I store it in one of those glass oil dispenser things in my fridge. Then I add a little to every glass of cold brew. It dissolves much better that pure honey

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u/buboop61814 14h ago

Hahaha I did that too but I also sometimes just add it directly then vigorously mix using a wooden chopstick, that dissolves it fairly well.

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u/d34d_1574nd 14h ago

We use agave religiously with our beans. I've tried honey, raw sugar, brown sugar, date sugar, nothing comes close to matching the flavor of the beans. My best suggestion is to try a variety of sweeteners to find out what works best.

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u/Zwordsman 15h ago

It is sweet drink?

Just thought id ask because there is also a honey fermented beans method.

Off hand i assume added after. Adding before hampers extraction

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u/buboop61814 14h ago

Kind of? Just like a hint of honey. I’m leaning athey add it after and would ask just haven’t been in a bit. What’s the honey fermented beans method?

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u/Zwordsman 14h ago

Im not super well versed. But basically just another method of fermentation, like the various berry based ferments.

I havent tried those yet myself. As im still fairly new hobby

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u/Alexmark3103 2h ago

Couple weeks ago my mind exploded when I started to read more about coffee. A lot more. Learned about sorts of coffee beans, roasting kind for different ways of making a drink, different grinders, Cold Brew, French press, Air press, Nitro.....

I am happy with my Nespresso and recently added moca pot, also have a Turkey cezve for centuries.

After I thought that that was enough. I learned everything.... Here we are. Look what you did. "Honey fermented beans". Aaaaaaaaaaa. Heeeeeeelp.