With echoes of Willie Nelson singing “Always on My Mind” bouncing around in my head, I am still thinking about cold brew. As Andy blogged about in “Cold Brew vs Chilled Hot Brew,” cold brew is a creature of its own in the coffee realm. As in the name cold brew implies, the coffee is brewed cold or at room temperature, not hot. In the past, I felt cold brew was inferior to hot brewed coffee, but these recent findings are changing my mind. The problem is not the drink, but how we have prepared it. By following Lucia Solis, I found a podcast by James Harper. In James’ series “The Science of Coffee Series 3,” he begins with cold brew.

You can learn more in-depth about the UC Davis cold brew findings by listening to James Harper’s podcast: “Hot vs Cold: The science behind temperature and taste” and “Fruit juice or creamy almonds: Your guide to controlling cold brew flavors.”

On top of these great podcasts, I found this jewel of a video: