Brew method · 12 reviewed
Heavy-bodied coffees built for immersion brewing and a coarse grind. Ranked by our Coffee Score.
French press is full-immersion brewing with a metal filter, which means total contact time and oils that stay in the cup. It delivers the heaviest, most textured mouthfeel of any common method and favors coffees with body to give.
Every coffee below is graded on our five-point specialty standard — no fluff, no pay-to-play:
Stone Street
Ranked #3 of our top 94 iced coffee & cold brew — an outstanding dark pick with chocolate, nutty, bold notes, earning a 4.6★ average across 6,583 Amazon ratings.
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9.4
Stone Street
COARSE GROUND COFFEE FOR COLD BREWING – We start with gourmet arabica coffee beans from Colombia, then we grind them to the perfect coarse ground size for optimal cold brew extraction.
9.2
Jo Coffee
STONE COLD JO PROFESSIONAL CUPPING NOTES: SILKY SMOOTH | LOW ACIDITY | DARK ROAST | HINTS OF TOFFEE CARAMEL CHOCOLATE GRAPE | Descriptive flavor terms are naturally occurring undertones in the coffee and no flavors are added.
9.1
Starbucks
Experience the lighter side of espresso—a soft, beautifully balanced flavor profile that pairs perfectly with milk, in particular oatmilk.
9
Stack Street
GOURMET COFFEE: Calling all cold brew and iced coffee lovers! Stack Street cold brew ground coffee is handcrafted, flavorful, aromatic and made using premium quality coffee beans. Pour over ice and enjoy!
8.9
Starbucks
Muted with oil, the tumbling beans become eerily silent. A master roaster watches, knowing that if he pushes them a second too long, they’ll burst into flames. White smoke hangs down as the glistening beans turn ebony.
8.9
Canopy Point Coffee
FOR SPECIALTY COFFEE DRINKERS - Quality is paramount when selecting source farms for our 100% arabica coffee. This coffee is grown in Siguatepeque, Honduras at an altitude of 4,500 feet and has a target cupping score of 86.
8.9
Stack Street
Calling all coffee aficionados! It’s time to ditch the coffee filters! Making the most delicious cup of cold brew coffee is easy with Stack Street Organic Ground Coffee.
8.8
Starbucks
Starbucks spent decades working with coffee farmers throughout Latin America.
8.8
Starbucks
Named for the first store Starbucks store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, this coffee is served fresh every day in Starbucks cafés around the world.
8.8
Starbucks
Explore three of our most popular dark roast coffees with this variety of rich and bold roasts—Starbucks Single-Origin Sumatra, Caffè Verona and French Roast.
8.7
Cold Brew Lab
CUSTOM CRAFTED FOR COLD BREWING: Look no further for the perfect coarse coffee grounds for making cold brew coffee.
8.7
Stone Street
COARSE GROUND COFFEE FOR COLD BREWING – We start with gourmet arabica decaf coffee beans, then we grind them to the perfect coarse ground size for optimal cold brew extraction.
Use a coarse grind and a 1:12 to 1:15 ratio, steep about four minutes, then press slowly. Because the metal mesh passes oils and some fines, the cup carries heavy body and texture. Grinding too fine produces sediment and over-extraction, the most common French press complaint.
Cold and iced formats lean on low-temperature or flash-chilled extraction to keep acidity and bitterness in check while preserving body. Concentrates are designed to be diluted, so judge them by how balanced they taste once water or milk and ice are added, not straight from the bottle.
Coarse, like sea salt. Finer grinds slip through the mesh as sediment and over-extract into astringency during the long immersion.
Usually too fine a grind or pressing too hard. Coarsen the grind and press slowly; you can also decant off the bed once plunged.
Yes. Most concentrates are brewed strong (around a 1:8 ratio) and meant to be cut with water or milk over ice to taste, commonly 1:1.
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