cold-brew coffee

A form of cold brew coffee — coffee, the liquid drink, which was created by steeping grounds in unheated water for hours (usually 12-24 hours) and then filtering out the grounds

Meanings

nouncold-brew coffee (countable and uncountable, plural cold-brew coffees)

plural cold-brew coffees

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of cold brew coffee.

    I breathe some more and finally am ready for my cup of cold-brew coffee!

    2022, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation, Broadleaf Books, →ISBN
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    Cold-brew coffee is made using a profoundly low-tech process. […] A cup of cold-brew coffee actually has more caffeine in it than standard drip coffee or espresso, he [Greg Johnson] said.

    2005 February 16, Mary Garrigan, “Some like it cold”, in Rapid City Journal, page B1

    In Austin, it’s easy to find coffee shops with a few beers on tap or bars with a couple cold-brew coffees, but you can’t easily fit the Brew & Brew into either of those descriptors.

    2014 November 14, Arianna Auber, “10 East Austin bars to wet your whistle during EAST”, in Austin360 (Austin American-Statesman), page 5, column 3

    Starbucks is one of the many companies that recently started to sell cups of cold-brew coffee in their shops.

    2016 August 12, Consumer Reports, “Perk up with a cup (or bottle) of cold-brew coffee”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 90, number 12, page B-3
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