Watermelon Cold Brew Coffee - Delicious Coffee Dessert

Watermelon Cold Brew Coffee - Delicious Coffee Dessert

Are you kidding? Brewing coffee using Watermelon fresh? That's the first reaction when you see it. But when you try - reaction changes to "It shouldn't be that good! It turned the world around!"

What is watermelon cold brew and how long it takes to make.

It's a regular cold brew coffee, but brewed with juice instead of water. We simply cut the watermelon, squeeze out the juice and use cold brew dripper like Hario Water Dripper Drop. It takes around an hour to make.

But you can use the watermelon itself. Just make a hole so that it's dripping and place it over the pour over coffee brewer (aeropress, clever dripper, v60 - doesn't matter). 

Watermelon coffee recipe

Coffee: 48 grams (regular coffee, espresso roast is fine)

Watermelon juice: 600 grams (usually half of a watermelon).

You can simply use 1:12 ratio for your dose of coffee. One part coffee multiplied by 12 = needed amount of juice.

Making watermelon juice

That's easy and we have a few options here. In a studio I've used the spoon and squeezed out the juice with my hands. Then used metal sieve to filter it.

And made another filtration with the reusable coffee filter from drip coffee maker. I've tried paper - it's not working. Unless you have an aeropress coffee brewer which will be perfect for such task.

Alternatively, at home I used potato masher in a pot. And then filtered everything using some cloth. Worked great. And the greatest part - I then placed the juice in the fridge for overnight cooling down. It separated the juice from the residue. So I ended up just filtering it once. And what a great way to consume a watermelon by drinking cold juice in the morning!

Making watermelon coffee

If you use Hario Cold Brew:

  • Pour the ground coffee (like sugar to the touch) into the basket
  • Add a little big of juice to wet the coffee. Place the filter at the top
  • Place the upper part and pour in the juice
  • When there is around 1 cm of juice left (after around 1 hour) - take off the upper part and pour the juice directly over the coffee
  • Serve and enjoy. You can add sparkling water and ice

If you use watermelon as a "dripper":

  • Use the screwdriver and screw to make a small hole in hald of a watermelon which you used to get juice
  • Place it over the coffee brewer that you have (but use reusable filter, not paper). With added coffee of course. And it's better to place some piece of paper filter over the coffee to distribute it properly
  • Pour the filtered juice inside the watermelon and wait for it to brew for like 1 hour

That's it. The recipe is super simple to make and you can store it for 1 day for sure in a fridge in an airtight clean container. But it's better to drink it right away.

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