Why does Starbucks add an arbitrary amount of water to the ice in my cup of Cold Brew Coffee?
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Why does Starbucks add an arbitrary amount of water to the ice in my cup of Cold Brew Coffee?
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Great question. As mentioned by others, Starbucks makes their own cold brew concentrate in store and then prepares it by mixing it with ice and water as described by Toni.
However, the one thing that I have noticed is that Starbucks cold brew tastes very different depending on the location. Some of the tastiest cold brew ever has been from Starbucks. And then sometimes it tastes like they used yesterday’s drip and poured it over ice.
Long story short, There’s no consistency with Starbucks cold brew. Possibly because it’s still a “new” product for them and there seems to be a lack of training.
For the same reason a soda machine adds four parts water to one part syrup. The cold brew concentrate is meant to be diluted.
I hope I am wrong, but this could be because – as the rumor has it – Starbucks baristas have evolved from passionate coffee aficionados (in the 90s) into well-intended coffee machine operators who – at one point many years ago – used to be serious about making great coffee… but have since become a cool but somewhat uncultured breed of over-caffeinated twenty-year-olds most of whom don’t seem to know that espresso has no ‘x’ in it or that a Grande Frappuccino can kill an diabetic after half a gulp because it has 69 grams of sugar in it. I would love to sugar-coat (pun intended) this, but I don’t know how. I like the Starbucks brand and want it to persevere, but I am afraid it is at a serious risk of becoming the “Mickey-D” of coffee houses where all things arbitrary are – well – the norm.
Unless your barista is an amateur or careless, then they should fill 1/6th of the cup with cold brew concentrate, 1/3 with cold water, and then the rest (1/2) with ice.
Tall (12 oz)- 2 oz of cold brew concentrate, 4 oz of cold water, 6 oz of ice.
Grande (16 oz) – 2.67 oz of cold brew concentrate, 5.33 oz of cold water, 8 oz of ice.
Venti (24 oz) – 4 oz of cold brew concentrate, 8 oz of cold water, 12 oz of ice.
Trenta (30 oz) – 5 oz of cold brew, 10 oz of water, and 15 oz of ice.
That is the standard “recipe” Starbucks would like the baristas to make their cold brew beverages. We use the lines on the cup in order to measure the amount of cold brew and water we need to add.
The amount of water isn’t exactly “arbitrary,” since the cold brew concentrate is already extremely bold, and many customers wouldn’t like the taste of it with no water added. The amount of water we put into our cold brew beverages is to dilute the taste, and likely the caffeine content, as well. It’s simply the right amount of water so that the customer enjoys the taste of the cold bre…