I have been drinking iced coffee for almost 50 years. I use left over morning coffee or sometimes instant. I sweeten it with simple syrup and add whole milk or 1/2 & 1/2 if I have it. Also lots of ice, freeze cold coffee in ice cube tray to use as cubes so the iced coffee does not get watered down. Love it on a hot day.

If there’s coffee left in the cafetière from the morning during summer I might top it up with a splash of cold semi skimmed milk and drink that but I don’t make it specifically. No sweetening and definitely no cream. I don’t like thick drinks. I’ve never bought iced coffee other than once in Madeira. I was boiling hot and bought a can of some iced Starbucks thing. I‘m afraid I found it truly disgusting - sickly sweet, viscous, artificial tasting and not remotely refreshing. It was like drinking melted cheap icecream.

Yes, have moved from drinking Stok to Trader Joe's instant cold brew in a little jar. Cheaper and less plastic waste. It's also not as strong, don't like really strong, bitter coffee. I can also use much less sugar. Still add ice and whole milk.

Also, if I'm out and want iced coffee or even a hot flavored coffee, in a coffee shop, I always ask for half the syrup so it's not so sickly sweet. Went to Elizabethtown to meet my daughter and her boyfriend on Friday. (to take her glasses to her and a couple plants) We had lunch and then walked around downtown, stopping in a coffee shop. Had a mocha flavored iced coffee with half the syrup. It was pretty good.

For a treat, I like this Frosted Mocha from a local, family owned coffee shop.

On the regular, in the summer, coffee over ice with a generous glug of heavy cream or half and half is refreshing. WFM, Peet's and Starbucks are all decent for this.

PS The frosted mocha has sugar in it, no artificial syrups, though I imagine the chocolate comes in syrup form. Those Starbucks drinks with weird flavors are of the drvil, no doubt.

I'll buy an iced latte as a treat, a couple times per summer. I haven't made cold brew to make a home made iced coffee in quite a few years ... it's sounding good today....

Oh why YES I drink iced coffee. Only recently I have begun to really limit my caffeine intake, but I still drink tons of coffee . I usually only have one caffeine coffee and after that, like for the next 2 or 3 or 4 it's decaf. I also used to use the leftover coffee through the day, but now I have a Keurig. There is a setting for iced coffee but it's not great. I drink any coffee without sugar but must have milk.

What I do 99% of the time, is I use instant decaf, add cold water, stir, and then add some milk and ice. Occasionally I add a sugar free syrup and party hearty. I have to drink it in a glass with a straw.

Going on vacation Wednesday and one of the things I look forward to is drinking iced coffee at outdoor cafes. I might not stand firm about skipping the caffeine. We shall see.

@salonva I have the same feature on my Keurig but have never used it. Good cold brew coffee has to sit in the ground for at least 8 hours. Not sure I want to try one that hasn't sat in the fridge overnight. ;)

Once a year, in the hottest heat of the summer, I make coffee ice cream and cold brewed, double strength caffeinated coffee. And put them together. Yum. We haven't hit the 4th of July yet!

@rob333 (zone 7b) how do you make this? Is it like a coffee float? You know instead of vanilla ice cream and orange crush (is there any other way to have a float? lol), you do ice cream and coffee because now I have to have that.

A scoop of the ice cream, then fill the container with the coffee. Sort of replaces sugar and cream. Which is odd, because I drink my coffee black!

I've never bought or ordered an iced coffee away from home. But in the hot months here (which are about 10 or 11 of the 12), I really enjoy an iced coffee in the late afternoon. Not special made, I just pour leftover morning coffee over a full glass of ice and add some International Delight creamer. Either Carmel Macchiato or Amaretto. Sometimes if I happen to have a can of Redi Whip on hand, I'll add a dollop of that to the top. I've never made cold brewed coffee, I'll have to try it one of these days. Are the water to coffee grounds proportions the same as hot brewing?

Rusty

Not for me. I typically double the coffee grounds, same amount of water. Put it in a container in the fridge overnight, and then strain it. I think cold brew is better, but what do I know? 😉

Proper brewing ratios: https://kaldiscoffee.com/blogs/news/5-things-you-should-know-about-cold-brew

I like coffee in any and every form.

Have you had Vietnamese iced coffee? You add sweetened condensed milk to the coffee.

Nope. I hate coffee. The smell makes me queasy. So no hot or iced for me. My coworker often comes in with one in the morning. I will tease her that it is a milkshake, not a coffee. Because at some point, the sugar, cream, flavoring and whipped cream plus the ice cancel out the half ounce of coffee in it.

I'm a hot cocoa gal. But I do liked it iced and frozen too. Just please, no coffee.

I only drink iced coffee with international delight chocolate caramel Creamer. One per day. If I get Starbucks I like mocha Frappuccino, not very often.

Large Dunkin Donuts iced regular every day

Sometimes I'll make a hot coffee and if I have vanilla bean ice cream will put a scoop in it. So good! No milk or sugar needed.

My mother loved iced coffee. Thanks for the memory.

I love iced coffee, I used to drink it black or with a little cream if I stopped at McDonalds. I never made it at home because I didn't have room in my freezer to make ice until recently when I bought a counter top ice maker. I love Tim Horton's Ice Caps but haven't had one since the pandemic started because we stopped going into restaurants. When I drink hot coffee at home I always drink it black. So after I bought the ice maker I wanted to create an Ice Cap at home. My brother brought home some of that International Delight Toffee Vanilla creamer for his coffee so I thought I would give it a try .to make an Ice Cap. I poured about an inch into my glass, brewed some coffee and after it cooled poured it over the creamer then topped it off with lots of ice. So good and taste just like a Timmie's Ice Cap. I try not to have one every day haha but I have to talk myself out of it. I am so glad I bought that ice maker

Like Deb, hot coffee black but iced it needs a bit of sweet and cream. I’ve done the cold brew thing but find the straining time consuming and a hassle. More often than not I’d use the Keurig. I don’t find Keurig iced any worse than hot.

That said, it’s been well over a year since I’ve had any coffee. Lost my taste for it ss a result of taste/smell issues from covid.

Big time hassle to strain! It's why I only do it once a year. Wonder if there's an easier way (yep. Found it! giant coffee ground bag). Lost my sense of smell before 2009. I still drink coffee ;)

^^^ I guess then it doesn’t smell like a cross between mold and chinese food forgotten under the sofa to you. 😉

Actually my smell has gotten better. It’s not as strong as I’d like but things are less smelling ”wrong.” Nose exercizes with essential oils has helped.

Might have to buy that bag and gove if a whirl - thanks!

Sounds like you have a wonky sense of smell, not anosmia. I'd love to smell mold and Chinese food.

Rob has said she works in a biomedical field so I don't doubt that "wonky" is a technical term.

I drink coffee hot only. Straight espresso or strong drip styles, no foo foo added. While I love the flavor of coffee as a drink, I strongly dislike "coffee-flavored" anything - whether ice cream, or candy, or mousse, or cake, or whatever.

Nope. It's a "sciencey" term. Which is also a word.

No, I understand that. It's a risk of what can happen when things get cattywompus, another technical term.

I asked my daughter to pick me up a couple more jars of Trader Joe's cold brew instant coffee on her way back to pick up her dogs at my house. She went to an amusement park in Ohio and I knew she was going to visit friends in Lexington on the way back. So, I'm set for awhile.

Nope! My siblings and I had a Scottish nana and grew up drinking tea, hot and cold. Love it! I never drank coffee until a few years after I married my DH in my late-twenties. Like he, does, I drink it black with no sugar. Cold coffee, though, still just makes me gag.

I like coffee. Drink three cups in the morning and afternoon I love a Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino with whipped cream. Its hot in Florida and it is refreshing. But have to have hot coffee in the AM.

Jane