Iced Coffee
Written on Apr 15, 2026
The "iced" in iced coffee is sometimes mispronounced without the "d", just like it's mispronounced with iced tea. When iced coffee comes in a bottle or a can, it obviously doesn't contain any ice.
You can make iced coffee in four ways: By cooling hot coffee and pouring it over ice, by pouring canned iced coffee over ice, by pouring cold-brewed coffee over ice, or by making your own. The first three are too much work for me.
I'll mention the fourth way, the way I do it, in a moment.
Drinking Iced Coffee
I rarely drink iced coffee from a can or a bottle, but when I do, it's when I'm traveling from one place to another for more than a short trip. It has to be cold, from the refrigerated section of a store. I've never poured that type of iced coffee over ice.
It's even more rare for me to get iced coffee from a coffee shop. While the prices in the Philippines aren't as exorbitant as they are in the Philippines, I simply don't like going inside of those places.
Iced Coffee vs. Hot Coffee
I usually drink hot coffee in the morning. I have yet to drink iced coffee while I've been in the United States this time. Even though it's usually much warmer and more humid, I still like to drink hot coffee in the morning in the Philippines.
I've made iced coffee at home in the Philippines, but not the way you'd expect. I use instant coffee, but not just any instant coffee. Coffee granules will not work as well as coffee powder. Nescafé Classic, not to be confused with Nescafé Clásico, comes in the powder form.
I usually put one or two teaspoons of coffee powder in an 8-ounce glass of water, filled a little over halfway. After stirring in my non-nutritive sweetener, I'll add a few cubes of ice. I only make iced coffee this way in the hottest months in the Philippines.
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