
After getting an iced coffee nearly daily during the last month, I'm able to easily the best was Blue Bottle 's New Orleans –style iced coffee from Ferry Plaza (the little San Francisco Bay Area chain has seven other outlets, including one out of Brooklyn). The cold-made liquid happiness is really a much more potent, smoother form of the chicory-laced coffee in the famous Coffee shop du Monde in New Orleans. That one is dark although not too acidic or harsh, having a buttery finish. It's certainly around the dessert finish from the iced coffee spectrum—served over ice chunks with a few sugar along with a good wrist's price of milk—but insufficient to drown the dark, deep, chicory flavors underneath.
Blue Bottle might be jerks and the entire preparation process a secret, however they don't. Actually, these were pretty wise to take advantage of us desperate caffeine addicts then sell DIY kits using the coarsely ground beans and step-by-step instructions. Iced coffee is really frequently an average, guzzle-lower experience, which often will the trick all right, however this one you savor just like a hot cup, sip by sip.
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I have been area of the Serious Eats family since 2008. I used the hat of national managing editor until 2013. Formerly a Brooklynite, now a brand new Orleanian. You'll find me in the crawfish boil.