Iced Coffee is the new Gold

I've been posting a lot on iced coffee brewing the last couple of years. And when I look into the coffee market's future, i guess this is just the beginning of a new coffee era, with Iced Coffee as the corner stone of business.

We've been starting to sell Cold Brew iced coffee last year. We knew how it worked, but it was just the first summer we had it on the menu. Of course we always had our frappaccino's and iced americano's, but black and pure and iced was something new.

This year we changed the recipe and started to bottle it. We don't do Cold Brew anymore, but prefer to brew on ice. This way we have a 'less-flat' taste.

The succes of all iced coffee, with or without milk is unstoppable. This very long but interesting article on The Atlanctic website is a must read.

We are bit by bit convinced this 'iced coffee movement' could be major for us as well and we are in full prep to elarge our quantity's and distribution platform for 2015.
There's even a possibility we are going to serve all our iced coffees with the same base. This means a Iced Mochaccino (frappé) will be prepped with the brewed iced black as well.

Also the Soft Drink menu will be reviewed and tuned with iced black inspired drinks.

Yes, it feels like this episode is solid enough to get us going for while.

Is Cold-Brewed the 'hottest' iced coffee?

Think Coffee in Greenwich Village employs the cold-brewing method for its iced coffee.

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I read this article a while ago on the net.
Curious about this so-called new way of making iced coffees i started to experiment.

Cold brewing asks for cold water in stead of warm.
You let the coarse ground coffee soak in the water over a night.
Then you filter it and the result should be a full and sweet tasting cup/glass of iced coffee.

Knowing my regular problems of instant brewed iced coffee's i was interested to give it a go (see photo).
Next to it i made another jug with the same technique, except with warm water.

The day after i filtered the coffee with a Chemex filter added a couple of ice cubes and tasted both (house blend) iced coffee's.
Besides of my planned Gimme and Grumpy bar visits i need to go to Think as well i guess, cause my cold-brewed iced coffee was not very tasty.
The warm-brewed iced coffee on the other side tasted just as described : full and sweet. Also full caf yes, but as a warm summer morning or afternoon drink this can't be a problem.

As i said before it isn't always easy to prepare large iced coffee without milk. The problem is you need a lot of ice cubes or ice cream to cool down the hot espresso. With this system you give it a night to chill in the fridge. So more work up front, but faster once prepared.

Later on the week i made me a jug Yirgacheffe iced coffee and that was - as expected - even better.
Then a glass with a bit of milk and bingo.
Nice idea for coffee of the week.
Now it's only a matter of waiting for the sun.