How To Make Flavored Cold Brew — 5 Fall Recipes

Mix up your coffee routine with fall-flavored cold brew — you’ll never go back to “normal” cold brew again. 

• Despite summer coming to an end, there’s no need to pack up your cold brew gear quite yet.
• With flavored cold brew, you can put a fall or wintery spin on your favorite summer coffee beverage.
• Vanilla, chai, and pumpkin spice are just a few of the flavors you can infuse into your cold brew. 

There’s so much you can do with cold brew, just look at the Starbucks menu and you’ll see the long list of cold brew variations. But instead of spending a ton of cash at your local coffee shop, why not make your own cold brew right at home?

All you need are some coffee grounds, water, and a few spices. The recipes below follow my basic cold brew coffee recipe found here but any basic cold brew recipe should also work.

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Cinnamon Cold Brew 

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To make cinnamon cold brew, you only need one ingredient: cinnamon sticks. Before placing your coffee grounds into the filter basket, add just one cinnamon stick to the bottom and pour the grounds on top. Then pour the water over the grounds just as normal following the recipe below. 

It’s best to use cinnamon sticks in place of ground cinnamon so that it doesn’t see through your cold brew filter basket. Typically, spices are ground so fine that they seep right into the coffee since they don’t dissolve that well. 

Gingerbread Cold Brew

For a more wintery cold brew, you can make a gingerbread-flavored variation. Add 1 to 2 teaspoons of dried ginger root (depending on how much you like ginger) and 1 cinnamon stick to the bottom of your cold brew filter basket. Then, proceed as normal following the recipe below. 

Vanilla Bean Cold Brew

To make vanilla cold brew, you will need to get one vanilla bean — not vanilla flavoring or vanilla extract. The vanilla bean will penetrate the coffee much more than the liquids can. In this case, I would suggest adding 1 whole vanilla bean (sliced down the middle) to the bottom of your filter basket.

Note: this will be unsweetened cold brew. If you’d like to add sugar, feel free to do so after the cold brew has steeped (when it’s ready to serve). 

Pumpkin Spice Cold Brew

With fall upon us, what better time is there to enjoy pumpkin spice coffee beverages? To make a very flavorful pumpkin-spice cold brew, you will need 1 whole clove, 1 cinnamon stick, 1/2 teaspoon of dried ginger root, and a pinch of freshly grated nutmeg. Place all of the spices on the bottom of your filter basket and pour your coffee grounds over the spices. 

Chai Cold Brew

Chai-flavored beverages can be enjoyed any time of the year. If you’re craving the warm flavors but not the warm temperatures of a latte, enjoy this chai-flavored cold brew recipe. You will need 1 teaspoon of dried ginger, 1 whole clove, 1 cinnamon sticks, 1 cardamom pod, 3 black peppercorns, and 1/2 of a vanilla bean. Again, place all of these ingredients onto the bottom of your filter basket, followed by the coffee grounds, and then the water. 

My last tip is to use cold brew coffee ice cubes (pictured above) which you can find on my blog. This is my favorite coffee hack because it keeps your drink from becoming watery, and it gives it an extra caffeine kick. Just be sure to only add one or two cubes to avoid getting the jitters from overdosing on caffeine.

Basic Cold Brew Recipe