Meaning & use
cold brew coffee
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Meaning
noununcountable
Coffee made by soaking coarse ground beans in cold water for many hours, giving a smooth, less bitter drink usually served over ice.
Grammar: Uncountable as a drink: some cold brew coffee; countable when ordering: two cold brew coffees.
Patterns
- a glass of cold brew coffee
She orders cold brew coffee every summer morning.
Cold brew coffee takes about twelve hours to make.
He prefers cold brew coffee because it is less bitter.
Common combinations
- make cold brew coffee
- I make cold brew coffee in a jar overnight.
- cold brew coffee concentrate
- Dilute the cold brew coffee concentrate with milk.
- glass of cold brew
- She ordered a glass of cold brew.
- smooth cold brew coffee
- The cafe serves smooth cold brew coffee on tap.
Synonyms and how they differ
- cold brew
- Cold brew is the usual short form of the same drink.
- iced coffee
- Iced coffee is hot coffee cooled with ice, so it is more bitter than cold brew coffee.
- nitro coffee
- Nitro coffee is cold brew infused with gas for a creamy texture.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: cold brew coffee or iced coffee?
cold brew coffee vs iced coffee
Iced coffee is made hot and then chilled, while cold brew coffee is never heated.
Practice
How is cold brew coffee made?
Choose one answer.
Cold brew coffee uses long soaking in cold water. Pouring hot coffee over ice makes iced coffee instead.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “cold brew coffee”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.