Sweeten up a cup of refreshing cold brew coffee with brown sugar using a brown sugar simple syrup. Make cold brew in advance and this will only take a few minutes to put together.
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If you like the taste of brown sugar with its rich molasses flavor and want to add it to coffee, here’s how you can.
How do you dissolve sugar in cold brew?
When it comes to cold brew coffee or iced coffee, I’ve found simply adding a teaspoon or two of sugar into the coffee coffee doesn’t work too well. It doesn’t mix easily.
The solution is to dissolve it beforehand by making a simple syrup.
Simple syrup is, as the name suggests, simple to make. Just use equal parts water and sugar and heat it on medium heat and stir until the sugar dissolves.
You can do this with granulated sugar and in this case, brown sugar (whether you use light or dark brown sugar is up to you.) And you can also add different flavors, like adding mint for a mint simple syrup which I used for my mint iced coffee (and also use for cocktails!)
Brown Sugar Cold Brew Coffee Ingredients
- ½ cup cold brew coffee concentrate
- 1 tbsp brown sugar simple syrup (½ cup brown sugar & ½ cup water)
- Optional: milk, vanilla creamer
Tips for Making Brown Sugar Cold Brew Coffee
Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate
Making cold brew coffee is easy but takes a bit of time – around 15 hours.
Read our guide to making cold brew coffee here. There are 3 methods you can use.
My preferred choice and the one I used here is the French press method. Here’s how:
- I grind my coffee beans coarsely (these can be your favorite coffee beans, you don’t necessarily need to use coffee that’s labeled as ‘cold brew coffee beans’ – I used Stumptown Coffee Hair Bender.)
- Then place the coarsely ground coffee beans in the French press.
- I use 1 cup of coffee beans with 3 cups of water and cover the French press, but don’t press the plunger down just yet.
- Set aside and let the coffee beans steep for 12-15 hours.
- Press the plunger down, straining the coffee and store it in a mason jar.
Brown Sugar Simple Syrup
To add brown sugar with cold brew coffee, make brown sugar simple syrup.
It’s really easy to make simple syrup. All you need is to dissolve equal parts of sugar with water.
Milk
If you like adding milk to your cold brew coffee, feel free to add some. Or make our 3 ingredient vanilla coffee creamer and add it to the brown sugar cold brew coffee.
How to Make Brown Sugar Cold Brew Coffee
- Make cold brew coffee. Place 1 part coarsely ground coffee and 3 parts water in a French press or empty jar and steep for 12-15 hours. Store in a mason jar in the refrigerator. (Click here for a full guide on how to make cold brew coffee.)
- Make brown sugar simple syrup. Heat equal parts water and brown sugar in a saucepan on medium heat. Stir until sugar dissolves. Set aside to cool.
- Put ice, cold brew coffee and brown sugar simple syrup in a glass.
- Optional: Add milk.
In pictures…
Step 1
Make cold brew coffee.
I used a French press and mixed 1 cup of coarsely ground Stumptown Coffee Hair Bender with 3 cups of water. I set this aside for 14 hours, then store it in a mason jar in the refrigerator.
Step 2
Make brown sugar simple syrup.
To do this, place equal parts of water and brown sugar in a saucepan and heat over medium heat. I used ½ cup of brown sugar, but if you want to make more so you can store it for future use, you can. Just make sure to use equal parts.
Step 3
Put ice, cold brew coffee and brown sugar simple syrup in a glass. Optional: Add milk.
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Brown Sugar Cold Brew Coffee
Sweeten up a cup of refreshing cold brew coffee with brown sugar using a brown sugar simple syrup. Make cold brew in advance and this will only take a few minutes to put together.
Materials
- ½ cup cold brew coffee concentrate
- 1 tbsp brown sugar simple syrup (½ cup brown sugar & ½ cup water)
- Optional: milk, vanilla creamer
Instructions
1. Make cold brew coffee. Place 1 part coarsely ground coffee and 3 parts water in a French press or empty jar and steep for 12-15 hours. Store in a mason jar in the refrigerator. (Click here for a full guide on how to make cold brew coffee.)
2. Make brown sugar simple syrup. Heat equal parts water and brown sugar in a saucepan on medium heat. Stir until sugar dissolves. Set aside to cool.
3. Put ice, cold brew coffee and brown sugar simple syrup in a glass.
4. Optional: Add milk.
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