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Admittedly, I’m not a coffee connoisseur but maybe I can get some baristas / coffee-knowers of the city to weigh in. My standard go-to this time of year is just a regular black iced coffee and sometimes I’ll throw in a couple sweeteners or almond milk myself but 50% of the time, depending on the coffee shop, they will give me cold brew.

To my understanding, they are different things (‘iced coffee’ being hot-brewed coffee that’s cooled and served over ice versus ‘cold brew’ that is steeped for 12-24 hours) and I do prefer the taste of iced coffee but otherwise it wouldn’t really matter to me — except for the fact that cold brew is almost always $1.50 – $2.00 more expensive than the standard ‘drip coffee’ on their menu (even if ‘iced’ is usually an option for +50 cents or so).

Is it not necessarily a given that a place will offer iced coffee even if they have regular drip coffee on the menu? Or am I just being up-charged for cold brew quite often?…