Toddy coffee

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Toddy is a trademark referencing a cold brewing system developed and patented by Todd Simpson in 1964. In the absence of competition in this brand space, it has become a genericized reference in American English and many people in the United States today refer to any cold brewed coffee as a "Toddy".

The Toddy process requires grinding coffee beans at a coarse setting and soaking those grounds in cold water for a prolonged period of time (usually 12 hours or more). The grounds must be filtered out of the cold water after they have been steeped; therefore, the grounds can either be put in a bag-like filter before steeping or the mixture can be fed through a filter after soaking (similar to the Toddy system). The end result produces a concentrated coffee that is often diluted with water and or dairy, and served steaming hot, over ice or blended with ice and other ingredients such as chocolate. Conventionally brewed hot coffee is highly acidic, and poured over ice, hot coffee waters down the beverage and offers bitter flavor notes. Cold brewed coffee is naturally sweet due to it being less acidic, and pouring cold brew over ice does not water down the beverage. Toddy Products claims brewing coffee by their method reduces the acidity of the coffee by some 67 percent compared to coffee brewed by traditional hot extraction methods. According to Toddy, some 6,000 coffeehouses throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia use their proprietary Toddy Cold Brew System system to make signature iced and iced blended coffee and tea drinks. Many other coffeehouses simply brew hot coffee at double strength, then pour over an equal amount of ice or cold water. Toddy also has sold more than 2 million Toddy Cold Brew System home models. This unconventional method of brewing has been praised by leading food critics from news organizations such as The Washington Post, NBC's Today Show, MSNBC, The Saturday Evening Post, Scripps Howard News Service, Cooking Light, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Toddy's process also is used to make iced and iced blended tea beverages.

[edit] "Naughty Toddy"

Seattle's Best Coffee Company also is now serving a drink called the "Naughty Toddy". This is not made with alcohol but instead a toddy coffee concentrate that is made by cold brewing of coffee and adding to white chocolate sauce, bittersweet chocolate sauce, half-n-half and whipped cream.