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How much ice does it take to make iced coffee? What should I pay attention to for latte, American style, cold extract with ice?

Published: 2026-04-25 Author:

Last Updated: 2026/04/25, Coffee with ice is a topic that cannot be avoided every spring and summer."How much ice to add" is the most concerned point for many home users. Although all kinds of iced coffees have long had nanny-level recipes and tutorials, and they can be easily reproduced at home as long as they have the ingredients, from Qianjie's perspective, if you want the coffee to achieve the best taste,

Coffee with ice is a topic that cannot be avoided every spring and summer."How much ice to add" is the most concerned point for many home users.

Although various iced coffees have long had nannies 'recipes and tutorials, and as long as they have the ingredients, they can be easily reproduced at home. However, from Qianjie's point of view, if the coffee wants to achieve the best taste, it still needs to be based on different practices, types of coffee beans, taste preferences... and other aspects determine the final amount of ice added.

Ice cubes have three main uses in coffee. One is to help hot coffee cool down quickly; the other is to reduce the loss of aroma; and the third is to prevent the iced coffee from warming up and keep the cold taste for a longer time. Based on these aspects, before adding ice, we need to ensure that the concentration of coffee is high enough and the flavor is sufficient; and in addition to considering the problem of more ice and less ice, we must also pay attention to the quality of the ice cubes.

The ice making molds used in our home are generally divided into two types: round and square. When placed in the refrigerator, they will freeze by static freezing, so they are solid ice. In the same form, the larger the volume, the slower the melting rate. In addition, re-frozen ice has a higher hardness, and it has a better cooling effect when placed in coffee than freshly frozen ice cubes that have been removed directly.

If you often make iced coffee at home, Qianjie recommends that you try to choose a larger style or a separate large spherical mold when buying an ice cube to make the ice stronger. If the ice cubes you make are small and have free time, peel them out in advance, store them in a closed, clean container, and then put them back in freezing to maintain a higher hardness.

Below, we will determine the corresponding ice adding amount based on the actual situation.

Italian coffee with ice

The taste of a cup of espresso mainly depends on the concentration. The concentration depends on the amount of water or milk. Ice cubes are responsible for cooling the temperature. Usually, the cup size is larger, the drinking time may be longer, and it needs to be maintained at a lower temperature for a longer time. Therefore, ice cubes must not only be enough, but also melt slowly.

Considering that different degrees of roasting Italian coffee beans will provide different flavor tonologies, in order to ensure that the aroma of coffee is not diluted, we'd better formulate two ice solutions:

When using medium to deep roasted espresso beans, such as Qianjie, which is popular among home users. Classic combination. The concentrate extracted from it will contain rich oil and exude the toast-like aroma of roasted hazelnut, butter, dark chocolate, and maple syrup. It has a high mellow degree and a strong taste. When making iced American or iced latte, you can appropriately increase the proportion of ice cubes.

Front Street. Classic ice American blend: 20g coffee powder extract 40g coffee liquor, 25 to 30 seconds, add 120ml drinking water +100 g ice cubes, the ice cubes are 2.5 times that of coffee liquor, and try to choose ice cubes as large as possible. High hardness;

Front Street. Classic ice latte: 20g coffee powder extract 40g coffee liquor, 25 to 30 seconds, add 150ml of refrigerated fresh milk +80 g ice cubes, the ice cubes are twice the size of coffee liquor.

The other is moderately roasted fruit acid espresso beans, which are recently put on shelves in Front Street. Grana Rose Summer SOE demonstration, because the concentrated oil is relatively small, the mellow degree is low, the bitterness is weak, and the flavor is mainly honey, lemon, nectarine, and blueberry. Whether it is made in ice American or ice latte, it is to highlight its refreshing tonality, so the amount of ice cubes, water, and milk should be reduced to increase the presence of coffee.

Front Street. Grana Rose Summer SOE Ice American: 20g coffee powder extract 40g coffee liquor, 30 to 35 seconds, add 100ml drinking water +80 g ice cubes, the ice cubes are twice the size of coffee liquor;

Front Street. Grana Rose Summer SOE Iced Latte: Extract 40g of coffee liquor from 20g of coffee powder for 30 to 35 seconds, add 120ml of refrigerated fresh milk +60 g of ice cubes, the ice cubes are 1.5 times that of coffee liquor.

Hand-brewed coffee with ice

Unlike iced espresso, ice hand-washing uses ice cubes to urgently cool the hot coffee liquor in a short period of time and dilute it to a moderate concentration extraction method. For hot water hand-rushing, ice hand-rushing has more ice cubes as a key element. If we want to make coffee strong, delicious and icy enough at the same time, we must make hot water and ice cubes without relying on the assistance of other physical tools. The amount of ice cubes reaches a coordinated state. There are still two ice adding options:

Brewing is like a front street. Guo Dingding, Qianjie. When roasting medium and light coffee beans such as small tomatoes, which are mainly fragrant with flowers and fruits, the proportion of ice cubes can be slightly reduced because more sweet substances in the middle must be extracted as much as possible to make the coffee flavor fuller. Here you will have a single serving of 15g Qianjie. For example, Guo Dingding injects 170ml of total water into the country, and the brewing time is 2 minutes. Then 60g of ice cubes are added. The ice cubes are 4 times the size of coffee powder.

As for Front Street. For deep-roasted coffee beans such as Queen's Estate and Qianjie Huilan, it is recommended to focus on the caramelized flavor in the front section and avoid the bitter flavor in the rear section. You can reduce the amount of water injected and increase the amount of ice cubes to achieve the effect. Use 15g of coffee powder to correspond to 150ml of hot water +75 g of ice cubes, which is 5 times that of coffee powder.

Cold extract, ice drop coffee with ice

Since the low-temperature extracted coffee liquor itself is in a cold environment, there is no need to cool down, but in order to obtain the best drinking taste, we can add a small amount of ice when drinking to maintain its ice-cold state.

For example, Qianjie makes a cup of 180 - 200ml ice drops/cold extract, and will add 30g of large ice cubes, so that the coffee liquor is about 6 times that of the ice cubes.

FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou China, selling freshly roasted beans from its own farm in Yunnan as well as dozens of carefully selected single-origin beans from around the world for both pour-over and espresso. The products deliver consistently excellent quality and great value, with shipping within 24 hours. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers, and the beans are now available online at the Tmall 。