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our expert _ MIAMI 105
Three of the best:
cold brews
Miami’s top caffeine hound ANDREW GIAMBARA
sniffs out the city’s best cold coffee drinks
ANDREA MANZATI
In most cities, cold brew is a treat reserved
for the hottest days of summer, but in
Miami it’s a year-round necessity. Although
the first cold brew appeared on the scene
only a few years back, the city’s imaginative
baristas are now surpassing each other in
creativity. These are the hottest cold coffee
drinks right now:
Herby infusion
1. ALL DAY
Ever tried putting rosemary in your coffee?
Neither had anyone in Miami, until Camila,
barista at All Day, created Our Sweetheart
Nº4. This mix of rosemary limeade and cold
brew shaken as a cocktail and served over
ice was originally a seasonal special – now
they couldn’t take it off the menu without a
small riot. Ruby Coffee Roasters’ Creamery
Blend, a seasonal blend currently made up
of coffees from Colombia and Ethiopia,
stands up well to mixing with the rosemary
limeade. It’s refreshing, tart and sweet at
the same time. And All Day’s sophisticated
cold brew process preserves the notes of the
coffee precisely.
Price: 9oz, $5.50 / 16oz, $7.50
Key ingredient: boldness
Tastes of: addiction, pure and simple
Vanilla Ice
2. VICE CITY BEAN
When Eva and Roland Baker moved from LA
to Miami to open Vice City Bean a little over
a year ago, they realised that to refresh their
new customers’ wicked coffee thirst, they’d
have to be very inventive. So they mixed a
shot of espresso with tonic water from New
Zealand, added a twist of orange and their
own vanilla syrup, made from real vanilla
beans, to create Spro & Tonic. Espresso is
much more concentrated than cold brew, and
because it’s thicker and smoother, it can be
diluted by the tonic without losing flavour.
Price: $5.00
Key ingredient: tonic from New Zealand
Tastes of: relentless pursuit of perfection
Coffee Mocktail
3. BOX COFFEE
Whereas most cafes offer a couple of cold
coffee options at most, the newly opened
Box Coffee is 100 per cent cold brew. The
brainchild of Australian Bec Milgrom and her
partner, Argentine-born Lucas Cravero, Box
Coffee offers four different straight cold brew
drinks and four Box Specialties. These include
the Mojito Mint, made with the Box Cold
Brew Blend produced specially for them by
Miami’s own Per’La Specialty Roasters. They
then add raw turbinado sugar, which tastes of
molasses, and muddled lime and fresh mint
for bold freshness. It’s adventurous. All that’s
missing is the rum.
Price: $6.00
Key ingredient: mint
Tastes of: outside-the-lines creativity
FIVE COLD BREW TIPS
#2: Brew strong
#3: Get the
amount of ice right
#4: Make cold
brew ice cubes
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Andrew Giambara
posts on his blog
nowbrewing.coffee
about South Florida
coffees and organises
monthly meets with
fellow caffeine nerds in
Miami. Growing up in an
Italian-American family,
he finished every meal
with an espresso from a
young age. He says his
first single-origin filter
coffee was “a transcendent
experience”
#1: Pick an
aromatic bean
#5: Don’t use sugar