Cocktails with Filter coffee
Filter coffee is a brewed non-alcoholic beverage made by passing hot water through ground roasted coffee held in a filter under gravity alone.
Taste profile
Pronounced roasted-coffee aroma over a medium acidity and medium bitterness, with a light, clean body and little residual sweetness.
How it's used
Poured in quantity, it serves as the bulk liquid of long and iced coffee drinks, contributing roasted-coffee flavour, deep colour and brightness; as a smaller flavour accent it carries aroma into a build. It brings no sweetness, so sugar or syrup is added separately.
Substitutes for Filter coffee
Another coffee preparation that preserves the roasted-coffee aroma and comparable brewed strength — espresso lengthened with water, which adds oils and heavier body, or cold brew, which is smoother and less acidic but usually more concentrated; a non-coffee ingredient cannot stand in.
Often confused with
Espresso
Espresso is extracted under high pressure through finely ground coffee, producing a small, concentrated shot with crema and heavier body; filter coffee is gravity-percolated at atmospheric pressure into a larger, more dilute cup.
