{"id":36,"date":"2026-06-03T23:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echosage.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/?beans_event=summer-cold-brew-lab"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:18:19","slug":"summer-cold-brew-lab","status":"publish","type":"beans_event","link":"https:\/\/echosage.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/?beans_event=summer-cold-brew-lab","title":{"rendered":"Summer Cold Brew Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Immersion versus slow-drip, coarse versus medium grind, twelve hours versus twenty-four. This experimental afternoon session brews three single-origin beans through two cold methods and compares the results blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Experiment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We select three beans from the current BeansParade catalog \u2014 one African, one Central American, one Southeast Asian \u2014 and prepare each at two grind settings across both immersion (full-contact steep in a Filtron) and slow-drip (Bruer tower). That yields twelve distinct samples. We taste them in randomized flights to surface preferences without origin bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal is not to crown a winner but to build a vocabulary for cold extraction. You’ll learn why immersion tends to emphasize body and chocolate while slow-drip pulls more aromatics and fruit-forward brightness \u2014 and how grind size shifts that spectrum in both directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What You Leave With<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • A 500ml bottle of your favorite cold brew from the session<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Printed recipe cards for immersion and slow-drip methods<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • A grind-calibration guide for home cold-brew setups<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Tasting notes and blind-flight scoring sheets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    Cold brew is not lazy coffee. It is coffee with the variable of time substituted for the variable of heat \u2014 and time, it turns out, is the more patient sculptor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    The session runs two and a half hours. All brewing was staged overnight by the BeansParade team so samples are ready for tasting at the start \u2014 the afternoon is about sensory evaluation, not waiting. Fourteen seats available. Dress cool; the roastery runs warm in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Immersion versus slow-drip, coarse versus medium grind, twelve hours versus twenty-four. This experimental afternoon session brews three single-origin beans through two cold methods and compares the results blind. The Experiment We select three beans from the current BeansParade catalog \u2014 one African, one Central American, one Southeast Asian \u2014 and prepare each at two grind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38,"template":"","meta":{"event_date":"2026-06-21","event_time":"14:00","location":"BeansParade Roastery, 42 Warehouse Lane, Portland OR","attendee_limit":14,"ticket_price":40},"class_list":["post-36","beans_event","type-beans_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echosage.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/beans-events\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echosage.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/beans-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echosage.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/beans_event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echosage.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echosage.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}