Ski Trip Blend (Concentrate)

We choose to emphasize cold brewed iced coffee in our café and online as we believe the cold brewing process noticeably reduces tasted acidity and provides a much smoother drinking experience than brewing hot coffee and cooling it down.

All water used in our cold brewed offerings has been filtered using reverse osmosis, meaning you only taste the best of Dallas, TX in each sip. The only two ingredients in each bottle are roasted coffee and filtered water.

What is cold brew? “Cold brewing” coffee is simply an immersion technique where roasted coffee is brewed at a much lower temperature, for a much longer time than the more traditional hot ways of brewing coffee. For example, a French Press would generally use ~200°F water immersed for 3-4 minutes, whereas cold brewing techniques can involve water as cold as ~40°F and brew times as long as 36 hours. The cold brewed coffee sold in our café and online uses ~70°F filtered water brewed for ~18 hours.

We also often receive questions asking if there is "extra strength” or “high caffeine” as a result of the cold brew process. While there are definitely mixed opinions on this subject, it is our opinion that the coffee to water ratio will inform you more about the strength and caffeine content than the brew method. We use about a 1:8 coffee to water ratio in our cold brew concentrate offerings, and we suggest drinking ready-to-drink iced coffee with a ratio around 1:15 (for reference SCAA Gold Cup standards are about a 1:18 coffee to water ratio).

This blend was created to be our draft cold brew at our café in Dallas, TX. Unsurprisingly, we think it makes a great bottled cold brew concentrate, as well! For this choice, we start by sourcing selections with strong chocolate notes, but we also like to generally focus on washed Central and/or South American selections. These coffees usually also have a pop of fruitiness, with the benefit of any acidity being reduced when we brewed cold.

Like all Window Seat Coffee blends, the combination of beans may change over time. While we can’t guarantee which coffee will be included in this blend, know it will always contain carefully-sourced and -roasted specialty coffee. In fact, at times this “blend” has even been a single origin!