Iced coffee in various forms and formats – even in specialty coffee – has become a major trend in the past decade, though it has been around for much longer. The current trend started with Iced Coffee Towers coming over as part of the “all things Japanese coffee” wave that Hario with the V60 started.

Japan has had a very long trend of iced and cold coffee beverages, even selling them in vending machines via canned products. This enticed several major specialty coffee roasters in the USA to do the unthinkable even a decade before: can up their coffee in a cold form to put on grocery store shelves.

It is CoffeeGeek’s official opinion that canned coffee is horrible. It is not specialty coffee, and not worth the price often charged for it.

That doesn’t mean iced and cold coffee isn’t bad. In fact, it can be fantastic. We have several guides on iced and cold brew coffee and espresso, all designed to give you a superior beverage experience to the overpriced grocery store cans. This search will deliver them all, or you can read some individually: our iced espresso how to, Vietnamese Iced Coffee guide, Ice Tower Coffee Maker How To, Japanese Iced Coffee Method, and even How to Use a Hario Pota. Be warned, some of these methods can take hours to do.

In this guide, we present one of the fastest ways to make Iced Coffee, using an AeroPress. The actual brew time is under 90 seconds, and the total time to make it is under 4 minutes. It’s also very tasty.

What You Need for this How To

• You don’t need much to brew with this method. You’ll need
• An AeroPress
• A good grinder
• Good, fresh coffee
• A measuring spoon (or scale)
• A metal filter (it makes better coffee)
• A sturdy glass
• Ice