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Cold Drip / Kyoto-style

A slow cold-water drip brewer — water drips one drop at a time through a bed of grounds for 3–8 hours, producing a clean, tea-like cold concentrate.

  • Origin: Japanese
  • Also called: Kyoto-style cold brew, Dutch coffee
  • Availability: Rare find

Cold drip (also called Kyoto-style cold brew) sits between immersion cold brew and a hot pour-over. Water drips slowly through grounds rather than steeping with them, which produces a cleaner, brighter, less syrupy cup than immersion cold brew. The towers — often glass and meant to be displayed — became a Japanese-influenced status piece at high-end Brooklyn specialty bars in the mid-2010s.

Related terms

  • Cold Brew
  • Pour-over
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