Okay, so I charge our cold brew coffee with nitrogen.
It's in this bottle.
I shake it a little bit and it should be ready right now.
Hey guys, it's Aleš from European Coffee Trip and in this video
I will show you how to make Nitro Coffee
which means making cold brew coffee
and then infusing it with nitrogen.
So let's get into it!
Can you remember the first time
you saw or tasted Nitro Coffee?
For me it was in 2017 at Happy Baristas in Berlin.
Not only we tasted their nitrogen-infused coffee and tea,
but we also look behind the scenes of their production.
I still remember the huge impression
from the cascading effect and creamy texture
of Nitro Coffee.
Since then Nitro Coffee became a popular drink.
We see it more and more often in the specialty cafés,
but also in commercial coffee shops and coffee chains.
I see 4 main reasons why Nitro Coffee became so popular.
You can prepare everything in advance in bigger batches.
You can serve it in no time from a tap on a bar.
Due to its creamy velvety texture
It's appealing also for people who usually don't drink
black coffee and prefer milk.
The cascading effect of Nitro Coffee is so
visually pleasing that many people want to try it
just because of that.
Okay, you are probably already sold on Nitro Coffee,
since you are watching this video,
but what can you do to drink Nitro Coffee at home?
First, you need to make cold brew coffee.
Second, you need to infuse it with nitrogen
in a proper dispenser.
We made a whole video about cold brew coffee,
so if you haven't seen it yet perhaps now is a good time
to do it to get a full picture.
Since I need quite a lot of cold brew coffee,
I decided to use Toddy Cold Brewer.
I use 120 grams of coffee,
it was Colombian washed coffee
roasted by Rebelbean in Brno
and about 720 milliliters of water.
So it was brew ratio of one to six.
I prefer the concentrate
that I can then dilute to my preferred taste.
So that's what I did and after separating some cold brew
I had 500 milliliters that I diluted with about
300 milliliters of cold water.
Now I had my cold brew coffee
ready to be infused with nitrogen.
Several years ago the number of tools available
for Nitro Coffee was very limited.
Early adopters had to use tools from craft brewing world
to actually make it happen.
Now in 2020 things are different
and you can buy several consumer products
for under 200€ or dollars, which is still a lot of money,
but if you like it you can get it.
Also, there are several coffee brands
selling Nitro Coffee packed in cans.
So that's the easiest way how to taste it at home,
but I guess you are watching this video
to learn more than that, right?
There are two kinds of machines available.
One is a Keg Style and other is more a Whipper Style.
For some reason we leaned towards the Whipper Style
Nitro Coffee makers
and there are two main products
that came out of our research.
NitroPress from London's Hatfields that sells for about
145€
and Nitro Whip from Austrian iSi that sells for about
135€.
Now I have to say that we didn't want to spend
that much money and we thought
Why we can't use a Cream Whipper
that is like 50% cheaper instead?
Yeah, we tried and failed.
At least we can show it to you.
There are two main reasons why it didn't work for us.
Number one, cream whippers use charges filled with
nitrous oxide that adds bubbles and foam to coffee,
but doesn't produce the creamy velvety structure
we expect from Nitro Coffee.
Number two, you can buy nitro chargers separately,
but they are bigger in size,
so they won't fit the charger holder.
There is a brand we saw called Best Whip
and there might be also some others that produce
nitro charges compatible with their cream whippers.
So that can be a way to save money, but we haven't tried.
Now, let's stop talking and make our Nitro Coffee.
Once you have cold brew coffee
and nitro coffee dispenser, it's very simple.
You pour coffee into the flask.
The maximum capacity is one liter.
We filled it with 800 milliliters.
You close it,
charge it with nitrogen. Shake it for a few times
and then pick a nice transparent glass and pour it there.
And then you have it! Nitro cold brew coffee.
You can enjoy the cascading effect
and the creamy texture of black coffee.
Okay,
so this is a nitro coffee and
here I have just uh a regular cold brew coffee
that I...
Not enough. So this is a before nitro
before nitro charging and this is after it.
Let's taste it!
So the taste is not that much different,
it's not changed completely but, you know, nitrogen
adds so much of a creaminess so it
feels almost like a
coffee with milk, but it's not it's black coffee.
Just nitrogen. That's so cool!
The last three things I wanted to mention:
The maximum capacity is one liter,
but there is no minimum.
So we tested for about 150 milliliters
and the infusion was okay,
but not as effective as with the full bottle.
We need yet to discover their optimal threshold.
So we paid for this box of 16 nitro charges
about 12€
which means one charge costs about 70 to 80 cents.
You don't need to fill a dispenser only with black coffee.
It's quite popular coffee cocktail tool, so
you can experiment with different style of
coffee drinks and let us know if we should explore
this topic - nitro coffee cocktails also for the next video.
I hope that you enjoy our process of learning
how to make nitro coffee.
Now there are two videos that I think can be interesting
for you to watch next.
One is definitely nitro coffee at Happy Baristas
where you can see more professional setup
inside of the coffee shop
and the second video is about how to make cold brew coffee.
Now, thank you guys for watching
and I'm looking forward to see you in the next video very soon.
Thank you. Bye, bye!
