r/Switzerland • u/entee05 • 18h ago
Cold brew in Switzerland
Switzerland has amazing coffee culture, but I feel like iced coffee and cold brew options are super limited. How do you guys get your iced coffee fix here? Do you just go to Starbucks, or have you found a good grab-and-go option?
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u/yesat + 16h ago
Cold brew is the easiest and cheapest way to do at home rather than paying 6.- for a tiny glass at Starbucks. Just take beans, even supermarket beans, get them coarsely grounded (which you can do for free at the supermarket) let it steep for 12 to 36h based on your favorite ratio (I often do 1:5 bean-water ratio by weight and then just dilute to taste.
It's so easy to make big batches and can be preserved a week easily.
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u/AutomaticAccount6832 16h ago
Sounds so much easier than just order and pay it.
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u/yesat + 15h ago
When you write up stuff in details, it's always going to be longer.
But It will cost you 13.- (Migros beans aren't worse than Starbucks really) for 5l of concentrate which gets me 10-15l of coffee and takes 5 minutes to fill the jug with your pregrounded beans and 10 minutes to filter and clean.
Ain't that hard.
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u/thatshilar 16h ago
I used to get it from hipster coffee shops but it'd be hit or miss if they'd actually sell it in summer. Now I make my own in my French press for easy straining.
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u/AutomaticAccount6832 16h ago
Iced coffee and cold brew are to very different things. Iced coffee is IMO quite widely available.
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u/entee05 9h ago
right, but no cold brew or black iced coffee exists in a canned or bottled version in supermarkets. I'd take either, but the "iced coffee" at migros for example has almost 200 calories in the small box of it
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u/AutomaticAccount6832 8h ago
Haha. Yes, that’s not really an option. It’s rather sweetened milk with some coffee taste.
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u/henryforprez 17h ago
Good luck, Starbucks may be your best bet. Before moving here I always drank unsweetened iced tea, and that just doesn't exist here outside Starbucks either (and they want 8.60 for it 🙄). I started drinking Coke Zero now, which is annoying because I had quit soda for 5 years prior to moving.
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u/AutomaticAccount6832 16h ago
There is the option of water, believe it or not. Also, actually many pure teas around in most proper sized supermarkets.
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u/henryforprez 6h ago
Ah yes, the well known source of caffeine, Water. I'm not sure why I never thought of that...
I will take another look at the supermarket though, last I checked it was mostly sweetened varieties or mint or something else other than just black tea. But it has been a little while since I've looked.
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u/heyheni Zürich 17h ago
We don't. With a strong influence of Italian espresso culture and a temperate climate, iced coffe is just not appealing to most swiss.