# The 18 Best Cold Brew Coffee Brands

> Bottled concentrates, canned nitro and the drive-thru cups that got there late. The steeping time is the only thing they agree on.

*By YPB Team · Published August 24, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-18-best-cold-brew-coffee-brands*

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1. **Stumptown Coffee Roasters** — score 1000/1000
   Portland roaster whose stubby cold brew bottles helped define the third-wave version of the drink.
2. **La Colombe** — score 912/1000
   Philadelphia roaster best known for the canned Draft Latte and its nitrogen-infused cold brew.
3. **High Brew Coffee** — score 700/1000
   Canned cold brew built around portability, with a protein line aimed at gym bags.
4. **Blue Bottle Coffee** — score 700/1000
   Oakland roaster whose New Orleans-style cold brew is sweetened with chicory and milk.
5. **Trader Joe's** — score 577/1000
   House-brand cold brew concentrate that sells on price and shelf placement rather than roastery pedigree.
6. **Califia Farms** — score 409/1000
   Curvy-bottled cold brew built for the oat- and almond-milk shelf rather than the coffee aisle.
7. **Chameleon Cold-Brew** — score 409/1000
   Austin-made organic concentrate sold in black bottles, brewed to be cut with water or milk.
8. **Death Wish Coffee** — score 409/1000
   Markets itself on caffeine content, with a canned cold brew that leans on the same reputation.
9. **Dutch Bros** — score 409/1000
   Oregon drive-thru chain whose cold brew arrives buried under flavored syrups and cold foam.
10. **Grady's Cold Brew** — score 409/1000
   Brooklyn brand steeped New Orleans style with chicory, sold as a bottled concentrate.
11. **Rise Brewing Co.** — score 409/1000
   Nitro cold brew in a can, poured for the cascading head rather than the caffeine hit.
12. **Dunkin'** — score 300/1000
   The New England chain that pairs its cold brew with the flavor swirls its regulars order by name.
13. **Peet's Coffee** — score 300/1000
   Berkeley roaster that predates most of the field and sells both bottled and in-store cold brew.
14. **Bizzy Coffee** — score 300/1000
   Organic ground and bottled cold brew that grew out of a direct-to-consumer subscription.
15. **Caribou Coffee** — score 300/1000
   Minneapolis chain whose cold press coffee is a Midwest fixture with little national noise.
16. **Starbucks** — score 300/1000
   The Seattle chain whose Cold Brew and Nitro Cold Brew put the slow-steeped style on mainstream menus.
17. **Wandering Bear** — score 167/1000
   Sells its extra-strong cold brew in a boxed tap meant to live in the fridge door.
18. **Tim Hortons** — score 167/1000
   Canada's chain answer to the category, launched years after the US brands and priced under them.

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