Product Review

This 3 lb.-coffee-capacity commercial-sized filter is second in size only to Madesco's "Big Daddy" filter, also sold on Amazon. Three pounds of ground coffee (1 gallon volume) easily makes 5 gallons of cold brew coffee. Restaurants generally brew with 5-gallon brewer buckets - and Madesco's "Senior Grande" filter holds much more than the 2.5 lbs. of coffee grounds required to produce cold brew coffee for these brewers. In fact, most 5-gallon brewers actually brew 4 gallons of coffee since room within the brewer is taken up by a full coffee filter. Why waste coffee/money? Again, Madesco sells a larger cold-brew coffee filter - "The Big Daddy" - that can accommodate a 7-gallon brewer. By all means, avoid "pillowcase filters" that fit over the top of a bucket - as they're simply too wide. While some competitors make "pillowcase filters," Madesco knows that coffee grounds deep in the center of such a filter never get to contribute their flavor to the brew for lack of water-flow and water exposure. Width is the key! Madesco's durable 2-ply filter width at 12 inches ensures most all the coffee grounds are less than 3 inches from brewing water. When Madesco devised its larger "Big Daddy" filter it didn't widen it, it lengthened the filter by 25 percent to ensure the coffee grounds remained no more than 3 inches from the brewing water. NO GROUND LEFT BEHIND !!! This is a big deal - in that it saves café owners money by efficiently brewing more cold-brewed coffee using less ground coffee. What's more, since there's no need for pricey paper inserts (as required by competitors' systems) cost savings are significant over the course of a year! Madesco has many many many commercial customers that appreciate that fact.