Friday, February 27, 2009
Coffee Filter Iced Coffee Season Cometh
Posted by Carrington Fox on Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:29 AM
I just tried to purchase an iced coffee at Panera. (Please hold your comments about Panera, I'm talking about iced coffee here, and we can discuss corporate chain bakeries later, and, anyway, it was for a friend. Jeez. By the way, have you tried Panera's Cobblestone muffin?)
Unfortunately, Panera does not sell iced coffee per se. Of course, you can purchase regular coffee and pour it over ice from the soda fountain, but this gesture of caffeinated MacGyvering only produces a drink I like to call Cold Water with Light Roast Flavoring.
While CWwLRF is not a good beverage, at least there's lots of it, because the ice melts instantly, leaving you with more insipid liquid than the average GI system can handle. In other words, it tastes like dishwater, but you can share it with someone. Neat.
But I digress. What I really meant to ask was who makes good iced coffee?
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Last night in Bongo Java, someone at then ext table had the most luscious-looking iced coffee. I know how good it was,because last fall I had a double decaf skinny vanilla latte and it was delicious!
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I’ll take the iced coffee at most Thai joints over any other place…well except for Crema.
I highly recommend Thai Star in the Kroger strip on Thompson by Briley Pkwy.
At the risk of having something thrown at me by the serious foodies I'm going to go ahead and say it...
Dunkin Donuts has some of the best iced coffee around.
Also as a Pacific NW transplant who cannot give up coffee in the summer but cannot handle hot beverages in the TN heat, I've learned to make great iced coffee. I have one of those Mr. Coffee iced tea makers and use it to make double strength coffee by the pitcher and keep it in the fridge. Then just pour it over ice, add a little cream and a touch of simple syrup and it's perfect...a little Bailey's in there on a summer afternoon isn't bad either!
I haven't been in a while, but Portland Brew was always my go-to. They cold brew their iced coffee and it is INTENSE. Bongo's is also pretty good.
I'm sorry, but I've been drinking coffee (black) since I was four years old, albeit not always with parental approval - appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, I was not raised by wolves - and there is almost nothing on this earth that can make me shudder in violent physical rejection like iced coffee. blech.
thai coffee is amazing, but far too calorific to drink often, and too sweet and creamy to really quench a hot day's thirst . If I want coffee on a hot day, it is still hot coffee I want. If I want something cold, there are plenty of other things to drink with ice or chilled mugs.
Personally, I drink iced coffee year round. :-) I've found taht Fido/Bongo Java make a good iced coffee.
However, I have been known to make the trip to Cool Springs to get my Dunkin Donuts fix. Laugh all you want, but their iced coffee is heavenly. The fact that they add in the milk/sugar for you is definitely key. You can take the girl out of New England, but I guess you can't take the New England out of the girl!
mmm...Dunkin Donuts...lite and sweet...though I went to the one out in Bellevue (attached to a gas station, should have been my first tip off) and the donuts were bad and the tea...ok I don't really drink coffee...was not good...anyone found that DD's outside the northeast not as good or am I just picky?
