Once available only in high-end coffee shops, cold-brew coffees now fill supermarket shelves. We sampled both concentrates and ready-to-drink versions to find the best.
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I really like the Chameleon but I add half and half as well as water and sweeten to taste. I don’t drink but maybe a couple a week since I limit my artificial sweetener to my coffee only. I really like to buy the Mocha.
make your own; super easy at a fraction of the price…
I really wish they’d included STŌK in the taste test. I’ve tried so many different bottle cold brews, and STŌK is always my favorite.
Stok on the table but no reviews…
I tried most of them and I must say that my favorite is none of them but the stumptown cold brew coffee concentrate.
Great video and taste testing! Just love the three of you. I agree Starbucks is the best.
I am a cold brew drinker. I am always looking for an already made cold brew, that I can keep in my fridge, but that taste like what I'd buy at a coffee house. This video was not very helpful because these ladies never even drank cold brew. One admittedly, likes hot coffee and the other likes it weak and watered down. I would like to see a coffee drinker who likes cold brew, and understands the nuances, try various kinds and recommended one that tastes like what is freshly steeped at my local Starbucks or coffee shop.
SToK Espresso is the best if you can find it.
IMO, Stok is by far the best, which wasn't tested here, despite being in the video the whole time (unsweetened only, the "slightly sweet" ones are diametric).
Pour some Dr. Pepper over Ice, add a splash of Coconut Creme coffee creamer and stir, you'll thank me later.
Never trust midwestern white people's opinion of coffee.
After the pickle tasting episode I didn’t think the facial expressions could be more comedic, but it appears you’ve hit a new high mark.
I like instant coffee.
As a born-and-breaded New Orleans girl, chickory coffee doesn't need spices. My go-to is a bag of Community Coffee New Orleans Blend coffee, 3 oz or so straight chicory, with cold water and proportions as if brewing hot. Let it sit in a French press for 16-20 hrs and you have a fine pot of cold-brewed coffee. I make it daily and use some to make ice cubes for my coffee.
I’ve had New Orleans chicory coffee, but it was 50 yrs ago & I actually liked it, but it was warm with milk in it.
MFK Fischer has a recipe for cold brew (the Welton Brew) in With Bold Knife and Fork, published in 1968 or 1969. Don't waste your money paying for water, brew your own with the appropriate quality of beans that fits your budget.
That's a waste of time. Why aren't you using coffee connoisseurs? Might as well go to 7/11 or the Shell station
Stok is the shiznit
I like chicory coffee!! ☕
… or just drink regular coffie like regular people 😉
La Colombe, best coffee for me. From Philly too.
I like the La Columbe. I even had one this afternoon!
Jack rocks! ☕️☕️☕️
My favorite is Califia Blonde Roast Cold Brew Coffee…second favorite is the Trader Joe’s Cold Brew Coffee…both are smooth, no bite consistency which I prefer when I make iced latte coffee 😋👍
How can people who do not enjoy this style to begin with, provide any sort of insight for those who do? Poor choice of casting.
We are a local roaster, grind at home, pour over kind of house. BUT every once in a while I feel lazy, and I buy the Starbucks cold brew from the store. It’s shockingly good. With vanilla soy milk (which I normally wouldn’t dare put in the pour over). Try the blond roast — which again, wouldn’t normally order ever. 😂
Oh, you guys MISSED THE BOAT on this one! I've tried all of these cold brews. WANDERING BEAR is the most delicious out of ALL OF THEM! SMH…
A few people here singing the praises of Stok, of my own at-home taste test (Stok, Starbucks, President's Choice, President's Choice Nitro) the Stok was by far my least favourite. It has an aqua blue label and it. was. awful..
Why don't you review Trader Joe's products?
I've never seen the point of bottled cold brew, it's just so easy to stuff coffee grounds and cold water in a jar and strain it afterward.