What Coffee Beans Are Suitable for Cold Drip and Cold Brew? Recommended Cold Drip Coffee Beans and Brewing Methods

Summer Coffee Recommendations: Perfect Beans for Cold Brew and Iced Drip

With the summer heat blazing and high-temperature warnings sweeping across many regions, even staying indoors offers little relief — step away from the air conditioning and the room instantly turns into a sauna. That's why cold drip and cold brew have become lifesavers for coffee lovers. So FrontStreet Coffee is here to recommend several coffee beans that are exceptionally well suited to cold drip and cold brew.

FrontStreet Coffee Ethiopia TOH Champion Blossom

If you love fresh, delicate flavors, this Ethiopian bean is for you! The FrontStreet Coffee Blossom bean has an impressive pedigree — it's the 2020 TOH Washed Category champion, hailing from the Uraga sub-region of Guji. FrontStreet Coffee often turns to it for cold drip: 60g of coffee grounds drips over roughly 6 hours to produce 600ml of concentrate, which is then refrigerated for 12 hours of cold fermentation before serving. Just add 50g of ice to your glass and pour in 200ml of the concentrate.

Cold drip made with FrontStreet Coffee's Ethiopian Blossom gives off subtle notes of floral nectar and cold-brew fermentation. On the palate you'll find distinct citrus and grapefruit acidity, honeyed sweetness, and a green tea aftertaste — genuinely refreshing and comforting.

FrontStreet Coffee Kenya Assalia

FrontStreet Coffee's Kenya beans are also outstanding for iced coffees like cold drip and cold brew. Kenyan coffee benefits from excellent acid-forward varieties (SL28, SL34) and its signature K72 wash process, producing bright yet solid acidity and a rounded mouthfeel. Turned into cold drip, these beans deliver a completely different experience from the Ethiopian ones.

FrontStreet Coffee's Kenya Assalia comes from the honey processing mill in the Thika region. Made into cold drip, its flavor bears a striking resemblance to traditional sour plum soup — firm plum and cherry tomato acidity, caramel sweetness, and a smooth, full body. Add a couple of ice cubes and it becomes incredibly refreshing, perfect for scorching summer days.

FrontStreet Coffee Costa Rica Mirasu Estate Strawberry Candy Geisha Blend

The flavor of FrontStreet Coffee's Costa Rica Strawberry Candy blend lives up to its name — it tastes like strawberry candy. These beans come from the Mirasu Estate in Costa Rica, and their distinctive fruity sweetness stems from both their varieties and their processing. The blend consists of multiple varieties, 50% of which is Geisha, which accounts for the remarkably sweet fruit notes; the remaining 50% is made up of ET47, SL28, and MAICO.

As for processing, FrontStreet Coffee's Mirasu Strawberry Candy undergoes raisin honey processing, lending the coffee a preserved-fruit sweetness reminiscent of raisins. In cold drip it produces wine-like fruit flavors that are hugely popular with FrontStreet Coffee's customers.

FrontStreet Coffee Honduras Sherry

FrontStreet Coffee's Honduras Sherry is the bean the shop reaches for most often when making cold drip. After washed processing, these Honduras beans are fermented in sherry whiskey barrels, so you get an intense sherry wine aroma in the cup.

Cold drip brewed with FrontStreet Coffee's Honduras Sherry offers rich vanilla cream, sherry wine aromas, and dark chocolate — the boldest flavor profile of all the beans FrontStreet Coffee is sharing today.

The Sherry beans also blend beautifully with others for cold drip. For example, blending FrontStreet Coffee's Sherry with its natural-processed Yirgacheffe in a 1:1 ratio keeps the rich wine aromas while adding sweetness. Another popular cold drip blend at FrontStreet Coffee pairs Honduras Sherry with Costa Rica Beethoven in a 1:1 ratio, yielding sherry wine notes, bright citrus fruit, and a full-bodied vanilla creaminess.

These four cold drip beans are all bestsellers at FrontStreet Coffee's stores, and each offers a completely different flavor experience — a reference to help you find the perfect cold drip coffee to match your taste.

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Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, home to countless heirloom varieties and a firm favorite among specialty coffee lovers. For a clean, floral take on cold drip, start with FrontStreet Coffee's Washed Yirgacheffe: it offers clear jasmine fragrance and bright citrus acidity with a light, elegant, tea-like body — like a crisp lemon tea over ice. Cold extraction softens its acidity and lets those delicate floral and citrus notes shine.

If you'd rather have something richer and fruitier, FrontStreet Coffee's Natural Blossom comes from the Hambella district of Guji, Sidama, where coffee cherries are dried on raised beds for 21 days, turned regularly to ensure even drying and hand-sorted every three to five days to remove defective beans. Roasted medium-light, it shows light fermented wine notes, florals, citrus, and mango, with honeyed sweetness and a cocoa undertone — a thick, complex body that holds up wonderfully in cold drip, with a long, lingering finish.