iced coffee

SO MUCH

it was only because i wanted coffee but I was thirsty and so didn't want something hot

i see now!

http://www.bevnet.com/reviews/americas_best_brew/

Coffee shops that don't have proper iced coffee and just put ice cubes in some coffee when you ask for it = dud

Also, they brew iced coffee stronger to account for the cubes MORANS!

mmmm... oogosh iced coffee with cream and sugar makes me weak in the knees

iced coffee with just a touch of milk or cream for color is the best drink.

but it's odd i can't have my hot coffee with sugar anymore! too syrupy. just milk. but the way you can taste the crystals when it's iced!

i don't know it really competes with iced tea. which is ALSO delicious with some cream.

i used to really enjoy the jumbo-sized iced coffee with milk & sugar but now the idea of the sucking down cold sugar & cream doesn't really sound refreshing at all. for the past few summers i've been drinking more iced tea than iced coffee.

anyway, the best places do this with frozen coffee cubes instead of ice.

SO GOOD

i know, when it's like really hot out and you feel kinda gross, cold cream isn't always the best drink :)

Clearly, LA is a shithole.

But we always have our iced coffee situation sorted.

when did iced coffee become so popular, is what i wonder. it was never around when i was a kid, but sometime in the 90s it became a phenomenon

people just LOVE it now. a summer staple

i don't know if it was "around" but my parents made iced coffee when i was growing up

ie prior to the '90s

oh man i had quit coffee for almost a year but i am breaking edge TODAY with an iced coffee.

i am drinking it RIGHT NOWS

this begins my downward spiral back into caffeine addiction

still convinced "asiago cheese" was created in a lab sometime in 1990 though

uh oh! completely justifiable =] xp

lol asiago

i had one in tokyo. first and last me thinks.

Not one of the nasty ones out of a can? Would be wise to get a proper one before you write it off entirely?

but it's odd i can't have my hot coffee with sugar anymore!

iced coffee is brewed double strength so that it isn't watered down when the ice melts, maybe this has something to do with it?

it was never around when i was a kid, but sometime in the 90s it became a phenomenon

it's been around forever, my dad used to make pitchers of it in the 70s and i know his father, who died just after i was born, was a huge fan.

well, yeah, some people have consumed coffee over ice for ages but just because certain people (none of my family did, fwiw) have done it doesn't mean it was a widespread consumer phenomenon. almost every place that regularly serves coffee these days usually has the iced stuff on hand in warmer weather

i credit / blame dunkin' donuts

i recall my grandmother considered serving coffee iced to be an abomination, akin to serving ice cream hot

i was gonna say, it was also always available at dunkin donuts forever. maybe it was a regional thing that expanded as people fled new england.

when i worked in a coffee shop, we didn't brew the coffee double strength and pour it over ice, we just chilled it in the cooler. but i've been to coffee shops that actually had ice MADE of coffee. which is awesome.

i get grossed out by the frozen coffee drinks -- like, how's that morning milkshake treating you, fatty?

Surprised i didn't mention this up thread but the best iced coffee treat is the granita al caffe you get by the parthenon in rome. Little dark crystals of sweetened espresso ice with whipped cream. (Next best iced coffee was one I had in Shimla, the cream was so thick and lumpy)

heh, kevin, maybe it's has to do with my maturation as a coffee drinker more than the general availability of the iced stuff

yeah, a couple of shots of espresso does make an excellent addition to a milkshake though! also back in coffee shop days i would make my friends come in and drink my liquid ice cream experiments.

as far as milkshakes go, where coffee is great, kahluha is greater.

no reason you can't have both.

that does sound really tasty, linds. there's a big difference to drinking frozen coffee drinks as if they were milkshakes than drinking them as if they were coffee, tho. it's the people who do the former, who i get enraged at (as proxies of my former fatty self, usually)

er, i mean the latter

now i want coffee ice cream...

Dunkin' Donuts French Vanilla iced coffee, with a little bit of sugar and a touch of cream... heaven. DD also has some seriously questionable iced coffee flavors tho... coconut, berry... feh.

DD's can be very questionable. i feel like their iced coffee can sometimes taste like meat.

Meat? I've never had that experience... I have had really horrible coffee from them in the past though, to the point where I've brought it back into the store.

LOL meat, ew. i just feel like my experience with their iced coffee has been that it's watered-down, but i've only had it once or twice

i try not to go to DD anymore as they've changed a lot since they were bought by Baskin Robbins or whatever, they used to have flavored roasts but now they only use flavor shots, have scary microwaved neuvo cuisine, etc

honestly i would not be surprised if there was HFCS in DD straight-up black coffee

maybe it's just me with the meat thing. but for some reason a lot of not-so-fresh iced coffee tastes meat-like to me. i can't explain it.

dean & deluca's is never meaty. so that's my favorite to get on the way to work.

I can't remember a time when DD wasn't hella gross, like way too gross to eat or drink anything from.

i think DD was always kinda gross but they've gotten more gross for sure

i will eat a bunch of munchkins if someone brings them into work, but that's about it.

it's a fucking donut store people. they sell fried dough.

hehe

i love donuts, but i don't pretend they are not gross

freegans dumpster-diving at DD for day-old donuts: it happens

cinammon donut = not gross
cruellers = not gross
chocolate glazed = not gross
the powdered one that is filled with frosting = omg how did i used to eat these?

Our HS had a bakery (mom/pop, est. 1935) with the best doughnuts and blueberry muffins in Minneapolis right next door, so DD a real non-starter for me on that level; also I drink tea or cappuccinos but never, ever normal Americano coffee.

Dean and DeLuca used to do hot white chocolate, or white hot chocolate.

I would be super-pleased if they still sold this. The sachets were like $10 a pack in 1990.

i always loved bostom creme. and chocolate glazed are VERY not gross

how did i used to eat these??

http://static.flickr.com/101/282070732_a3b5ae372c.jpg

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

they're not gross in the sense of "eww, gross caviar," they're gross in the sense that you're eating fried dough and lard, and it's best not to think about that part of the dount experience

donut

totally. anytime someone points out lard as an ingredient in anything i can't eat it for months.

eww caviar

I enjoy both lard and caviar.

i don't think there's a better iced coffee in the world than instant bustelo, ice, sugar, and milk shaken to within an inch of its life

lard wishes and caviar dreams

i've been making cold-brewed iced coffee at home all summer, it is awesome.

I had a DD iced coffee the other day. It tasted like coffee flavored water.

It tasted like coffee flavored water.

isn't that what it is?

i mean, if it tasted like beef stew i'd be worried.

It didn't taste like anything.

oh. i thought it tasted like coffee flavored water.

it's like water with a liiiittle shot of coffee

Not even that much of coffee.

what do you expect from a company that shits itself in terror when michelle malkin calls their spokeswoman a jihadist supporter

I misread that as macully culkin.

now i want beef stew for lunch.

mmmmm

http://static.flickr.com/53/177215683_fe583eed5a.jpg

paul newman y u braek hart

I actually like the McDonalds white trash sugar free vanilla ice coffee.

Ed you can get those granita type ice coffees at the place of the Graham L stop.

Not one of the nasty ones out of a can? Would be wise to get a proper one before you write it off entirely?

It was a "proper" one. Of course you have to take into account I'm not a big coffee drinker. :-)

the caribou coffee iced-coffee-in-a-metal-bottle isn't half bad. pricey as shit though.

iced breve, no sweetener.

My new thing is adding cinnamon to the ice coffee with the milk.

I learned that in SF.

i'm at a coffee joint now, i'm totally gonna try that~

ha. my boyfriend's been making it at home! so i'll have to cut out my morning trip to the deli, which is good and kinda sad :(

Last summer I was 24/7 iced tea (Tea's Tea Pure Green and Pure Black); this summer I have shot past iced coffee and resurrected some kind of awful teenage iced mocha phase. I don't feel good about myself with this one, but man, kinda tasty.

Sometimes I think to myself "this is awful, you're just drinking, like, a caffeinated milkshake," and then I think to myself "I know, right? OMG how awesome is that?"

lovin iced mocha lately

Hope you like it, omar. Sometimes I add the powdered chocolate too!

I order hot coffee at coffee places out of spite: a cup of coffee is $1, but an iced coffee with the same exact coffee content is $2.50. 2.50!!!!

ice ain't free

luv it plain but only if it's good. bad coffee cold is so much worse than bad coffee hot.

sometimes this is all that will make me happy

this is my summer of iced coffee in my veins

Why did I think this was a good idea at 10:30 p.m.?

sometimes you just get the craving

maybe you can get coffee ice cream?

for future urges?

Good idea. I could also get coffee Nips. Mmmmmmm. I used to love those!

One nice thing about being so addicted that I've built up a tolerance...I could have an iced coffee at bedtime and drop right off.

I thought I could too but no such luck.

do u guys mean proper iced coffee made from espresso or the bottled stuff?

I <3 both btw.

I meant the real kind made from espresso but tbh I love it all too. Am now having morning coffee. Hot not iced.

wait the bottled stuff like the starbucks stuff?

today is the first day of iced coffee season!

I am all about this. I will be brewing a pot this evening of EXTRA strong coffee for the purposes of icing it down tomorrow AM.

SO good. I want one now, but that would be be needlessly duplicative...I'm on my third cup of joe this am. The Monday fatigue is hitting me HARD.

this might be the most unspecial monday of the year so far

iced coffee is a lifesaver - i just wish coffee servers wouldn't look at me weirdly when i order iced black coffee

sugar?

no!

;) sounds good to me. ppl do that with tea all the time!

here they just serve it black by default, i usually just add a little milk for color

I got an iced coffee drink from my "backup" neighborhood cafe, and they'd blended, or something, so it was like a poorly made coffee slushee, with chips of ice still plonking out and melting on your tongue. I very nearly felt like I'd be justified in sending it back.

I can never get a non-blended iced coffee in london metropolitan area unless I specifically ask for it

what? i don't understand what this blended means. what is it blended with?

like the ice is blended?

I'm guessing it's blended with some sort of blender? Although in this case it's possible they just used horrible slushy pre-chipped ice.

that's very bizarre to me.

the starbucksization of america

one more reason i'm never moving to london

I'm surprised by that, by the way, London-wise. My whole concept of iced coffee is that it's served, like a normal drink, over ice. Running it through a blender turns it into something else entirely, like a frappe or something.

(Does even Starbucks do that? I think they at least distinguish between "iced" and, like, milkshaked.)

Starbuck's iced coffee -- sweetened (sorry haters) -- is pretty good. Not really milkshake-like. And better than a regular, hot cup of Starbuck's coffee, which can be bitter.

Out of desperation/convenience, I tried McDonald's iced coffee on Saturday. Weak.

so is dunkin donuts, but i think i've gone over this before

i was just trying to attribute the spread of blended iced coffee to coffee shops trying to compete with the frappuccino? i dunno

Yeah, that totally makes sense. It's just funny how a regular over-ice drink actually seems like a fancier/"nicer" thing to have than some blended thing. To me, anyway.

guys i really didn't know this was a thing. if i get served a frap situation next time i order an iced coffee, i'll have to send it back

(I guess it just depends how much you like iced coffee as coffee or how much you like it as a kind of "treat.")

so is dunkin donuts, but i think i've gone over this before

yes! the iced lattes are better tho.

Has iced latte always been around and I've just never noticed it? Pretty damn good

i hate diary milk so **ck lattes but cold brewed coffee is sublime. 1/3 cup grounds: 12 oz H20 let sit and chill for ten hours or so. strain through a fine mesh strainer and cup of godlike iced coffee is yours. taste is fantastic this way but it does use a bit more beans to make it thusly

i love iced coffee

iced latte is really iced milk w/ some coffee flavoring tho imo

not that it's a bad thing... but not enough caffeine

iced coffee is my boyfriend

yday I used my Starbucks birthday drink to get an iced chai w/ two shots of espresso. V v good.

I love ordering "dirty chai"s. Is that what you called it?

oh that sounds really good

Peets' iced latte was the sole thing that got me through moving last month.

stumptown's cold brew has fueled me through a few occasions this past month.

I tried out this place too: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/dining/the-best-iced-latte-in-america.html

I suppose you can call it a mild version of Thai Iced Coffee. Wouldn't go out of the way for it.

i get so sad when you order iced coffee & they reach for just the tiniest lil plastic cup

also sucks strolling into a cafe trailing a thought bubble full of sweet frosty coffee sloshing around in it & seeing COLD BREW — $5.50 chalked on the board

I bought adorable paper straws to drink the cold brew I make for myself with

first of all iced latte is made with espresso, not coffee

i ask for three shots in a 16 oz iced latte which i guarantee you a) has enough caffeine and b) does not taste like milk

like elvisa, i get it at peet's

Brew it strong, use a shaker and don't include the ice cubes in what you serve and it will always be better -- the only exception to this rule is Vietnamese style.

Let me let you in on a little secret: make ice cubes out of coffee. Sounds crazy, but it works. You might want to consider adding milk and sugar to the ice cubes, in addition. Hell, you can even add the ice cubes to coffee that's too hot! It'll cool it down very quickly.

Coffee Bob, what do you make of cold brewing

are u saying add the coffee ice cubes to gatorade?

I was surprised to hear the Jeremy Irons character in Brideshead Revisited refer to staying up studying with lots of Iced coffee when I started trying to watch the series a couple of weeks back.
hadn't really thought of it as being something that hit English shores that early. 1920s or 30s or whatever.

Amon cold brews are not something I have ever really enjoyed, they always seem too strong and they are usually too expensive in coffee shops. If I want cold coffee I will simply chill a mug of hot coffee.

Gatorade with coffee ice cubes? Boy that really is a strange idea. I would advise against it.

i'm tellin' ya, cold brewed coffee yields a different dimension of flavor.
and coffee ice cubes rule! they melt slowly

Is MJ still getting paid to wear Nike?

aaand wrong thread

looool

Instant iced coffee truly is not bad, depending on the flavor. I use Taster's Choice Colombian. French Roast instant isn't bad, either. Not crazy about OTC iced coffee - rather just throw those crystals in a tumbler with ice, sugar and soy milk. Then shake the bejeezus out of it. Yum, foamy. Currently addicted to this sh!t.

Instant coffee isn't bad shaken up with soy milk and ice - I like it strong, OR stirred into ice cream, esp. Mint.

cold brew iced coffee rulz

try telling that to Coffee Bob

"yknow if i want cold coffee i just stick it in the fridge"

coffee bob? more like coffee DAD

i put mine in the freezer with some ice cubes in it, it's good

iLatte time

Rainy out so the usual place is full of students

number of coffee shops in manchester that understand the concept of iced black coffee so far: 0 out of 4. STOP PUTTING SUGAR IN IT UGH

Have you tried politesly asking for no sugar?

cold brew or no brew

xp tbh if you ask for "black coffee" it is insane to put sugar in it imo

like by asking for black coffee he is already asking for no sugar

I think every single time I've gotten iced coffee in this country it's just served black by default and if you want cream or sugar you put it in yourself at the cream and sugar station

like by asking for black coffee he is already asking for no sugar

― EMA Sumac (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, September 23, 2014 2:38 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes this is what i'm SAYING. i have politely asked for no sugar after taking a sip and realising it's disgustingly sickly

The tricky thing is that sugar doesn't change the color of the coffee.

Black coffee just means no milk not no sugar but they shouldn't be putting any sweetener in it unless you ask for it anyway.

I love ordering "dirty chai"s. Is that what you called it?

― the dickering of salm on race (Treeship), Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:03 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I got a drink somewhere in AZ that was horchata with two shots of espresso in it and it was called the dirty hor.

Also I am totally getting a dirty chair with THREE SHOTS tonight because i agree that the default amount used in latte type things is not enough. I like my coffee really strong tho. Also, I would like to praise the delicious nectar that is Grady's (no relation) Cold Brew. So fucking good.

horchata with two shots of espresso

WHOA

^^^ this is beyond amazing tbh

It really was. I've been dreaming about it ever since.

need

Why hasn't this combo been jumped on by the coffee corps of the world? Or even your usual 3rd wave shops?

Also, I would like to praise the delicious nectar that is Grady's (no relation) Cold Brew. So fucking good.

i had this in nyc and really liked it! enjoyed it over ice with half a packet of splenda, no milk.

Why hasn't this combo been jumped on by the coffee corps of the world? Or even your usual 3rd wave shops?

― calstars, Wednesday, September 24, 2014 3:22 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

GOOD QUESTION.

I had to settle for a dirty chai after work yesterday but it was still pretty damn good.

JBR - :D It's $$ but really tasty.

Fantasizing about the horchata with espresso. Sounds like the best drink ever.

I am currently googling to find any place in this entire city that will make it. It's not looking v promising.

You gotta DIY

I know. I'm totally gonna. Except I don't have an espresso machine but I will figure something out.

Just bring a horchata into a coffee shop and tell em you want a double

SMAHT

Chicago is a magical place http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October-2014/Horchata/

Treesh, I wd make you some but I don't have a blender but if you want to get ~fancy~ some time I will come over and make horchata w/ yr Vitamix and then we can drink it w/ coffee from my Aeropress because we are young and white.

ENBB GET AN AEROPRESS!!!! It makes espresso-strength coffee that is not *technically* espresso but is v close, is v v delicious, is $30; I bought it solely for making iced americanos and it's what I used to make spresschata

I have an aeropress! I can do that!

I completely forgot that it's basically espresso. YAY!

The prob abt this drink is that to do it right you have to make the horchata and you should really do it well (i.e. use a good rice like jasmine or basmati! go to the mexican grocer and get the flaky cinnamon! add almonds or whatever!), and it really is an enormous pain the ass to strain it, like SERIOUSLY a pain, but when you are done, oh! it is so worth it.

Chicago IS a magical place. I want everything listed there especially THAT PIE.

Yeah I'm thinking I should go on a Chicago Fall Horchata Tour.

Any recs for good horchata in NYC?

i'm definitely scheming on the dirty horchata, probably via aeropress...is good store-bought horchata a thing?

tbh the Rice Dream horchata is p tasty and the packaging looks like a game show which is v nice to see when you open yr fridge, I bet this wd absolutely do in a pinch, but it does not compare to yr local taqueria in terms of that fresh and floral flavor that you get w/ homemade horchat

http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/03/06/84/82/0003068482467_500X500.jpg

whatever you do don't call it an horchatté bcz that's stupid

lol

"and the packaging looks like a game show which is v nice to see when you open yr fridge" + the pic made me lol

weird! stevie is coming back to chicago four years later and i am here with an unrelated question

my question: i would like to make the sort of iced coffee concentrate that you let drip through something overnight -- maybe in a glass or plastic container? This is all the information I have about the type of iced coffee I am attempting to make because it can't be that hard -- i just don't have the proper apparatus or vocab required to search for it. i want to google it but i don't know the correct search terms.

ideas?

nm
i got it bc my mr looked it up -- it's the "toddy cold brew system"

it's a cold toddy.

I only drink ice coffee all year round and just recently learned that this is a gay male "thing" (according to buzzfeed). I am really confused by that premise. Do gay men like cold drinks?

xpost. If you get a cold toddy just make sure you have everything really sealed up before you leave it overnight. I used to use one a lot and it's very annoying to wake up to a spill of half brewed coffee.

Thank you!!

I looked it up and it is the toddy cold brew system that I have. It's fine. It uses a lot of coffee though. And it has a rubber plug in the bottom that you pull the morning after the grounds have been soaking. That plug is the thing you have to make sure is jammed in right or else it leaks. I think we just stopped using it because having a carafe of ice coffee around meant we were drinking that carafe in one go.

good to know
i guess you can make a larger amount by just repeating the process until you have enough to fill the vessel you wish to fill?

if it is indeed this one https://www.amazon.com/Toddy-THM-Cold-Brew-System/dp/B0006H0JVW

it comes with that carafe that fits the same amount as in the toddy and supposedly it makes a concentrate that you are supposed to dilute with water but we never really diluted it and drank it straight.

ah. another valuable fact!
spouse received a large bottle of this stuff (as a concentrate) as a gift and from the size of the bottle it must have taken several batches. now i do not need to rely on anyone else to make it, i can do it myself. i was trying various cold brew ideas and wasting a bunch of coffee NOT making this specific type and now that i have the vital information of [thing used to make it] i can proceed.

I am sure you could rig up a similar contraption on your own. This is the filter that fits into the bottom if you could figure out a similar vessel, it's kind of all you really need.

https://toddycafe.com/shop-product/15/Toddy-Filters

ohhhh and I see they have paper filters now too.

Yeah, it's always bothered me that the only important part of that 'system' is the really thick filter. Not that the whole thing is that expensive, but it seems like you could DIY it if you were so inclined.

I also drink mostly concentrate with a tiny bit of water for propriety's sake.

i tried and thought i could but the experiments were getting expensive
my goal was to make the stuff we had in the bottle, so i needed to know how that was done. my cheap a$$ was wasting coffee :(

i hate giving in to the gadget but i felt i had to this time

Yeah, it totally is easy to use. I think we've had two of them (they were located in different places) for about ten years now and you may need to replace filters or the rubber stopper every so often but that's it really.

I got a growler of bourbon barrel cold brew as a gift, and it was so good that I've since refilled it a couple times (from a place in Milwaukee).

i have an oxo cold brew still and i really like it!

https://www.oxo.com/categories/coffee-tea/brew/coffee-makers/cold-brew-coffee-maker.html

idk if cold brew concentrate is the thing you're talking about here tho

it is
i tried to make regular cold brew and it was ok but just tastes like cold coffee, not particularly strong or flavorful

Idk y’all I make cold brew by like putting grounds and water in a jar, it works pretty good. If I were gonna get some apparatus I’d get one of those three foot high Japanese things that drips over the grounds drop by drop just to make it maximally impractical.