Iced Coffee

Also aisu kōhī, café glacé

Brewed coffee served chilled over ice, with or without milk and sugar. The flash-brew method pours hot coffee straight onto ice to lock in aromatics.

IcedServed iced

Volume
280ml9.5 US fl oz
Espresso
0shots
Caffeine
72mgderived, USDA FDC
Glass
Highball350 ml

The build

Watch it made, step by step
Highball, 350 ml. Layers in pouring order from the bottom, drawn by volume.
  1. Brewed coffee180 ml64%
  2. Ice100 ml36%
Volume
280ml
Caffeine
72mg
Espresso
0shots

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

Hot-brewed coffee cooled over ice; flash-brewing directly onto ice (Japanese style) uses a higher dose to allow for melt.

Caffeine

Derived
72mg

in a 280 ml iced coffee

USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee volume in components, assuming 1 g per ml. FDC 171890 (Beverages, coffee, brewed, prepared with tap water) 40.0 mg/100 g x 180 ml.

USDA FoodData Central record 171890 · 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

4
NameCountryHow it differs
aisu kōhīJapanFlash-brewed over ice, a kissaten standard.
café con hieloSpainEspresso over ice.
EiskaffeeGermanyWith ice cream.
cà phê đáVietnamPhin coffee over ice.

History

Popular account

Wikidata records coffee and ice as parts. Iced coffee has been served in Japan since at least the early twentieth century (popular account).

Generic chilled brewed coffee.

Popular account

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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