3 Must-Try Iced Coffee Add-Ins

3 Must-Try Iced Coffee Add-Ins

Guatemala’s Anacafé Signs Deal with Green Coffee Tech Provider ProfilePrint

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3 Must-Try Iced Coffee Add-Ins

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Study: Climate Change Increasing ‘Systemic Shocks’ to Coffee Production

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It’s Wheels Up for Pinup Coffee Roasters in Virginia Beach

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3 Must-Try Iced Coffee Add-Ins

3 Must-Try Iced Coffee Add-Ins

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3 Must-Try Iced Coffee Add-Ins

Here Are 3 Iced Coffee Add-Ins You Have To Try

Peanut better and jelly. Salt and pepper. Iced coffee and … well, these three things:

1. Simple Syrup

Yes, we all love black coffee. But when speaking about refreshment, a small amount of sugar can bring out the best flavor notes of any iced coffee.

How to make simple syrup:

  • 1 part sugar
  • 1 part boiling water

Now combine them until the sugar is fully dissolved. Shelf stable! Use moderately for delicious, strong coffee.

2. Seltzer

Seltzer goes with anything if you like it, but there’s a reason that coffee shops serve sparkling water with every espresso shot.

Seltzer does a few things:

  • Cleanses the palate 
  • Offsets the acidic properties of espresso
  • Draws out flavors and makes them more apparent

Besides that, seltzer is delicious and wildly refreshing. Here’s our absolute favorite, strong ice coffee/seltzer recipe for summer:

  1. Fill a cup with ice.
  2. Pour two shots of Death Wish Coffee or Death Wish Coffee Espresso Roast over ice (Death Wish Coffee through a Chemex works great!)
  3. Fill the rest with ice cold seltzer.
  4. Add preferred amount of simple syrup (optional).

3. Orange

Brewer beware: If you’re using orange in your coffee, avoid cream! It’ll curdle. 

Now, if you follow the World Barista Championships, you’ll know that baristas love to use orange in their signature drinks. They truly know their stuff! Whether it be a flavor note or actual orange extract, orange complements coffee beautifully. I’ve mentioned orange’s delicious properties in coffee before, but the best way is by far and away in iced coffee.

Cut an orange or clementine in half and squeeze it over the seltzer drink mentioned above. Citrus meets caffeine. YES. 

Related: 

Here’s Why You Love Black Coffee and Dark Chocolate

How to Brew Coffee with a Chemex

3 Must-Try Iced Coffee Add-Ins

Perfect Little Beans

Chinmey Hill Coffee uses specialty-grade beans with zero primary defects (such as black beans or sour beans) and less than five secondary defects (such as broken beans). This is important because primary defects will greatly affect the taste of the coffee. Having zero defects allows the coffee to be the most optimal flavor.

Window for Optimal Flavor

Chimney Hill Coffee ships our coffee the same day it was roasted, so you will receive it before it enters the window of optimal flavor.  This means you’ll never miss the opportunity to enjoy the coffee’s peak flavor.

Coffee Ratings

Coffee undergoes many scoring processes by professionals who achieved their Q Grader certification. Coffee is first graded when it’s green. If there are defects the coffee is determined to be “not-specialty grade”. For those coffees that pass green grading, they are sample roasted and cupped. (Cupping is the official term for critically tasting and scoring coffees. The official cupping form is standard worldwide, and where the 100-point scoring system comes from.) A coffee’s dry fragrance, wet aroma, flavor, aftertaste, body, acidity, balance, and overall impression are taken into consideration while uniformity issues and defects, will lower the overall score.

Specialty Coffee

Specialty coffee, coined by Erna Knutsen in 1974, refers to a coffee that receives a quality grading score of 80 percent or higher. While “premium” or “gourmet” seem like they’re synonymous with “specialty,” they simply are marketing terms with no defined standards. Specialty coffees are grown in specific and ideal micro-climates, and have distinctive and unique flavor profiles, with little to no defects.

Third-Wave Coffee

We’re currently in the third wave of coffee. The first wave of American coffee put pre-ground, vacuum-sealed cans in kitchens across America. The second wave started with the late ‘60s introduction of Peet’s coffee (by Alfred Peet) through the proliferation of Starbucks. The third wave of coffee focuses on origin transparency, nuanced flavors, and artisan roasting. The term “third wave” is synonymous with specialty coffee.

3 Must-Try Iced Coffee Add-Ins

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