Café con Hielo

Also café con hielo

Spain's iced coffee: a hot sweetened espresso poured over a glass of ice at the table. Fast, strong and unmixed with milk.

IcedServed icedFrom Spain

Volume
130ml4.4 US fl oz
Espresso
1shot
Caffeine
64mgderived, USDA FDC
Glass
Highball200 ml

The build

Watch it made, step by step
Highball, 200 ml. Layers in pouring order from the bottom, drawn by volume.
  1. Espresso30 ml23%
  2. Ice100 ml77%
Volume
130ml
Caffeine
64mg
Espresso
1shot

Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.

Espresso and a glass of ice served separately; the coffee is sweetened hot so the sugar dissolves, then poured over.

Caffeine

Derived
64mg

in a 130 ml café con hielo

USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee volume in components, assuming 1 g per ml. FDC 171891 (Beverages, coffee, brewed, espresso, restaurant-prepared) 212.0 mg/100 g x 30 ml.

USDA FoodData Central record 171891 · read 2026-10-26

A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.

Variants by country

2
NameCountryHow it differs
café del tiempoSpainWith lemon.
iced americanoUnited StatesWater added as well.

History

Popular account

The standard Spanish iced coffee; Wikidata maps the term to the general iced-coffee item.

Spain.

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Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.

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