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Dripo Cold Brew Coffee Maker - Tested and Reviewed!
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May 30, 2025
Coffee over ice doesn't taste remotely like cold brew, as any coffee fan will tell you. The big difference is time: You can make a cup of coffee and pour it over ice in a minute or two, but good cold brew takes 24 hours. Or does it? That's the point of the Dripo cold brew coffee maker: Using the Japanese drip system, it lets you make delicious cold brew coffee in about 2 1/2 hours. Does it work, and how does it taste? Tech expert and coffee fan Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ takes a break from tech gadgets to give the Dripo coffee maker a whirl. And the result is... Check out the Dripo at: http://getdripo.com/
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Dave Taylor here and this time I'm in my
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kitchen because we're going to play Mad
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Scientist we're going to try out the
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dripo travel iced drip coffee maker and
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the idea is that it's going to make us
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cold brew coffee in only 2 and 1/2 hours
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sounds like a long time but if people
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that actually understand and appreciate
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coffee know that cold brew is typically
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24 hours and the idea is it takes some
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of the edge out of coffee sure you can
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make it you can grind the beans and put
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it to a or something or do a cake C or
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something but doing a cold brew is a
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slow process and it makes it just taste
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a lot better so the question is can you
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really do that in just a couple hours
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let's find out so we're going to try the
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dripo and it's basically you have a
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container you have a thing to put your
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coffee in you have a thing to put your
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water in you put them all together and
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boom it just sits and runs and you go
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and do something else for a couple hours
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so to start I'm going to take my coffee
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and I'm going to actually grind the
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beans our goal is to create a/4 cup of
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ground coffee
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so we will do
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that with my little coffee grinder
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because we want this to be as fresh as
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possible and I just grind it probably
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longer than I need to but I just wait
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until I don't hear anything so we can
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assume that it's a pretty good well
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ground coffee Okay so we have it ground
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now I'm going to go ahead and get 1/4
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cup of coffee out of this and it's
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ground beans of course and I'm going to
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use a little spoon make it a little
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easier and perhaps a bit less of a
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mess and oh I might be slightly generous
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with my 1/4 cup of coffee but here's a
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really important step is I want to
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actually get it wet because the key to
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success with this device is to have the
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coffee a little moist so that boy it's
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making a mess so that it the water
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spreads more evenly along the coffee as
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it brw so this is sort of a huge mess
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we'll just sort of roll with it and I'm
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going to put it all in
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here and then you can see I sort of
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left a bit of a mess we'll just cover
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that up and who knows maybe someday
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that'll magically fix itself but I'm
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going to put a drop more water in even
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though I know this is also going to just
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make a little bit more of a mess but
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really really important you want to have
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the water as it flows through the system
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go through as much of the coffee as
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possible so just a little drop or two
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and now we're pretty much ready to roll
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you want to spread it around and Tamp it
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down so it's nice and
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even and I think we're good to go we get
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this coffee that's on the spoon cuz we
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want nice strong coffee so we don't want
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to lose too much of our coffee grounds
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in this
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process now the next step is the system
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includes these little filters now you
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can use any coffee filter and just cut
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it to size but this just makes it easy
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and they recommend you just put it on
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top and the idea is that it's supposed
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to help spread the water around so we're
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basically ready to roll so this goes in
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here and then this screws on
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top uh supposed to screw on top some we
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are having minor technical issues here
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so
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standby there we go Okay so so now you
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can see we have the container the coffee
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the filter and this top unit is a drip
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unit but since we're making iced coffee
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we want to
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start with ice so that's easy enough so
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I'm going to drop a bunch of ice in here
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and then fill it up with
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water and we're done I'm going to go
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ahead and just put the lid
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on
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and you can see here in the middle it's
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starting to drip so now we need to wait
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2 and 1/2 hours so I'll clean up this
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mess and in 2 and 1/2 hours I'll come
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right back and tell you a little bit
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more about the dripo coffee
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system okay so about 2 and 1/2 hours
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have passed and as you can see we've
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gone from an empty lower container to
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nice thick dark coffee I hope it's going
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to taste good we're basically done you
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never quite get rid of everything on the
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top but I'm just going to call it and
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I'm going to unscrew this and I can take
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all the pieces apart later I just want
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to get to the coffee so I'll just move
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this over to here put it out of the
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way smells like some pretty serious
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coffee let's add a little bit of
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cream just kind of like having cream in
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my coffee so I'll pour a little bit
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in that's looking like coffee I could
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add some ice cubes heck I could add
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those ice cubes but let's just give it a
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swirl and a
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taste M it's really good it's smoother
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than if I would have just made straight
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coffee these are still pretty aggressive
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beans if you know what I mean so it's
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still a really strong bite to it but
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that's those beans that's what I used so
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different coffee is going to give you
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very different results but 2 and 1/2
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hours not bad and that's not a huge
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amount of coffee but it's definitely
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plenty to keep me going for a couple
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hours now having done all this and
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having spent all this time on this
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device let's talk about it so this is
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all these pieces are the dripo travel
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cold brew iced drip coffee maker and the
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intention of is that you could actually
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use it in a hotel room pretty easily
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especially if you planned ahead and you
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packed some ground coffee and maybe even
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measured it out and had it in a couple
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of Ziplocs it's going to be way better
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than that $4 single Curry cup that
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you're going to get from the hotel
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coffee maker um it is known as Dutch or
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Japanese style drip coffee the entire
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unit is about 1.2 lb so it's not like it
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weighs very much it's really high
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quality plastic it's not glass um and
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the unit itself it's a 20 oz tumbler and
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it's a 10 oz uh 10 oz IC drip coffee
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maker so their intention is that you're
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going to end up making about 10 oz of
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coffee little less than a can of soda
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but that's okay why would you want a can
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of soda when you can have fresh coffee
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now I love the container it's a
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Kickstarter campaign but the whole thing
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looks like this huge milk container
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really fun packaging and the filters it
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comes in a pack of 50 you get like 20 of
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them or something with the container
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when you buy it but it's really pretty
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ridiculously inexpensive this 50 filters
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only runs you
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$4.95 off of their website and this unit
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excuse me this unit you can get for
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$34.95 off of the get dripo decom site
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but with a little bit of hunting I think
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you could find it online for even less
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than that so I'm sold this is a really
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fun and easy way to make drip and cold
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brew coffee and something where I
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certainly can imagine like first thing
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in the morning crack a dawn I get up I
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get this thing rolling and then you know
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a couple hours later I'm like midm
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morning I'm ready to go and I got some
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nice cold brew coffee ready to drink so
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this is Dave Taylor this is the dripo
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coffee maker and I'm ready to continue
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drinking this fantastic coffee and I'll
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catch you in my next
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video
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