Cold Brew Coffee: Techniques, Recipes & Cocktails for Coffee's Hottest Trend

by Chloë Callow

Cold brew has taken the coffee world by storm, with its sweeter, mellower taste and potential health benefits. Brewed by leaving coffee grounds to steep in cold water for hours, it offers a fresh take on coffee - and once you try it, there's no going back.

This handy guide will give you all the knowledge you need to get on top of this trend that's here to stay, with illustrated step-by-step techniques for making your own cold brew at home, plus expert advice to help you get the best results from your drink. Also featuring more than 35 delicious recipes for creating cocktails and desserts with your cold brew coffee, from Espresso Martini and Cold Brew Negroni to Coffee Chocolate Tart and Coffee French Toast, this is a must-have for brewing beginners and small-batch artisans alike.

This new and updated edition features sections on coffee and sustainability, the effect of coffee on our mental and physical wellbeing, and alternative uses for coffee grounds, as well extra recipes like Bulletproof Coffee and Coffee Water Kefir.

Genres: Cookbooks

144 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 12, 2025

Reviews

[Suwitcha Chandhorn]

หนังสือเล่มบางเรื่องการทำกาแฟ cold brew ที่ค่อนข้างจะเสนอข้อมูลพื้นฐาน ที่ชอบคือภาพประกอบสวยงาม และมีสูตรค็อกเทล + ม็อคเทล + ขนมติดมาด้วย อ่านเพลินดี จบเร็วมากจ้ะ

[Miroslav Nemčok]

If you google “cold brew”, every other link is more informative than this book. It’s too contemplative and teaches you nothing. (I do not understand especially the enormous effort of author to prove that cold brew is unfairly considered to be a hipster drink) It tells you to experiment with your grinding, beans’ origin, water, etc., but remains silent on HOW to experiment and what to look for. Cocktail and mocktail receipts in the last part are fine, but hardly innovative. Read at your local cafe but it is not worth buying, even if you are completely new with cold brew. Use google instead.

[Marinna]

Glad this was a library borrow versus a purchase. Save your money. I wanted to read this to help me get a better understanding and approach to cold brew coffee. I was hoping for specific methods and ratios of water to beans and what coarseness to grind the beans at. This book offered nothing. The part entitled “How To Make It At Home” simply offered, “The short answer is that there’s no simple formula to tell you which bee methods suit which coffees best. Ultimately it’s a case of trial and error…” Boy if that doesn’t summarize how helpful this book is. 60-70g (2 1/4-2 1/2 oz) of coffee for every 1 liter (34 oz) of coffee was my only take away. I’m not a drinker and I didn’t realize it would mostly be cocktails and no real coffee recipes beyond “grown up coffee milk” which is *spoiler* coffee and almond milk and odd concoctions like coffee chocolate tart. I have had better success looking up methods and true recipes online.

[Lorenzo Rocci]

A good book as an introduction in the cold brew coffee.
Explain easily all the part and method.
Callow writes in a pleasant way, enjoyable without being repetitive.

Not just for geeks but for sure a good point on where to start.
100 pages that in a couple of days you can definitely read.

Divided into chapters:

- why cold brew
- how to make it
- essential know how - note on coffee world and origins
- recipes - ideas but not exactly what you need. but the first three-part definitely will help you a lot.

for 10£ (but even less on Amazon) worth a read.

[aliyahrambely]

A simple book about coffee for coffee lovers! History, philosophy, and technique on how to goodly making cold brew coffee. Oh, this book includes recipes related to coffee too. For me as a Muslim, there are certain recipes that we cannot follow but worry not because many other recipes that we can try or we can modify them😉

Overall it’s a good book for me and benefited as well to know more about coffee. I believe in knowing something that we loved and this book can be part of it.

Alright, that all!

But first, COFFEE!☕️

[Nathan]

A nice little intro to cold brewing. To be clear to prospective readers-this book does not go into a high level of detail on any of the methods. However, it is a great primer for someone who just wants the basics and might be intimidated about jumping into cold brew.

It also worked well as a companion gift to the cold brew carafe my wife gave me for Father's Day!

[Christy]

I am quite the fan of cold brew - this was a fun quick read with some good recipes [totally out of the box, too!] that I am eager to try. I've never even HEARD of cascara - now I need to give it a go!

[Nishant]

Good information about how to brew cold coffee. Different types of Brewing method and info about beans and Brewing measurements.

Good rainy afternoon read.

There are mocktail recipes of cold brew coffee too in here.

[Tom]

Good introduction to Cold Brew Coffee, made my first batch and it’s great 👌🏻

[Elise]

A good introduction book into cold brew coffee.

[Victor Ramirez Urueta]

Meh... basic introduction for basic techniques, no deep dives into matters.

[Biminator]

Doesn't worth the money. May be it's for super beginner. Not for intermediate coffee geek

[Peter Panacci]

short and sweet

I would have loved more indepth information, but there were a few gems :)

[Amro]

Good techniques. But most recipes require alcohol! Wish there was more nonalcoholic recipes.

[Autumn]

I like iced coffee and was hoping for simple recipes. I do not want to invest money for special equipment.

[Jessica]

great information about different brew methods and a wonderful list of recipes.