Cold Brewed Coffee
What you need
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2-3 Mason jars for filtering
Mason jar or pitcher for brewing
Funnel
Paper cone filters (#4 size)
Coffee grounds (ground for percolator (medium/coarse) if pre-ground)
Water (preferably purified)
Measuring cup
How to do it
If grinding coffee, about 6 seconds of grinding should do (a tad more is ok).
Mix coffee and water in brewing receptacle in the following ratio: for every 1/3 cup of coffee grounds use 1.5 cups of water. You lose some liquid in the process (it gets absorbed into the grounds, or evaporates, or is stolen by ghosts or the wind). 4.5 cups of water (the above ratio times three) translates into just over 3.5 cups of finished coffee.
Put the brew thing someplace and leave it there for at least 12 hours.
Filter the stuff twice. (Put filter into funnel, pour through filter, wait a long time, when jar filled, filter into new jar in same way. Using a metal mesh filter as well speeds things up because you can pull it out and remove most of grounds, which makes filtering the rest easier.)
When drinking, cut with about an equal part milk (or water? haven't tried that). Don't cut with soda water (coffee soda sounds good tastes bad).
Good grounds/beans: Vienna Roast from Coffee Bean, Sulawesi-Kalosi from Peets (favorite so far); French Roast from Coffee Bean is almost as good.