I recently picked up the Java House brand JAVA HOUSE Cold Brew Coffee, Decaf Colombian 4:1 Liquid Concentrate, 32 Ounce Bottle from the cold brew coffee concentrate category and paid $22.99 for it. After spending twenty years in the Marines, I learned to value efficiency and quality in everything I use, especially my coffee. I needed something that would deliver real flavor without keeping me wired at night, so I decided to test this concentrate against what I’ve been drinking.
The premise is straightforward. You get a 32-ounce bottle of cold brew concentrate that you dilute at a 4 to 1 ratio with water or milk. That means one bottle makes about 160 ounces of finished coffee, roughly 20 cups depending on your serving size. At $22.99, that breaks down to about $1.15 per cup if you’re doing the math, which I always do. The Colombian beans are sourced and processed by Java House, a company that actually knows what they’re doing with cold bre