It is on a small share of cafes (9.5% in the last 90 days) and holding steady.
Fewer than 5 Darwin cafes have it, or the first review we have is under 120 days old. It also covers anything on a small share of cafes that is holding steady.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Coffee steeped in cold water for hours rather than brewed hot, then poured over ice: smoother and less bitter than espresso over ice.
Coffee steeped in cold water for hours rather than brewed hot, then poured over ice: smoother and less bitter than espresso over ice.
Illustrative: a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
Where to get one4 Darwin cafes have it on their menus. Prices are from those menus and may have changed.
It's emerging: early days yet.
Darwin's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (42 Darwin cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Darwin cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
6suburbs with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Darwin cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
1 suburb is known only from a menu, which we can't date, so it counts in the last month.
Data updated 14 Nov 2026.
Cold brew is on 4 Darwin cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 6 Darwin suburbs.
Coffee steeped in cold water for hours rather than brewed hot, then poured over ice: smoother and less bitter than espresso over ice. A typical cold brew, drawn from Darwin cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with straw (paper or reusable), ice (a full cup of it) and cold brew (coffee steeped cold for 12 to 18 hours, about 250 ml, served black). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe. In all our data to 14 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 11 Darwin cafes across 6 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 4 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.
It is on 4 Darwin cafe menus right now, including Beans N' More in Yarrawonga, COFFEE MAN in Darwin City, The Foreshore in Nightcliff and The Greenhouse in Nightcliff. The "Where to get one" list on this page has every one, with the price where the menu gives one, links to the menu or post, and directions. Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.
It is early days. The Froth rates cold brew as Emerging as of 14 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (9.5% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 14 Nov 2026, 9.5% of the Darwin cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 82 cafes we have followed through both periods, none of the same cafes had it, against 1 in the 90 days before.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 25% against Darwin's 9.5%, over the last 90 days.
The earliest Darwin customer review about cold brew that The Froth has is from 17 Jun 2025. We only see what we collect, so that is when we first saw it, not when it started: it may have been sold earlier, here or elsewhere.
A cafe counts for cold brew from the first Google review we found that mentions it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with a current menu in the same 90 days, a chain counting once. A change compares the same cafes in the last 90 days with the 90 before, only among cafes we have followed through both, so newly added cafes never look like growth. The 90 days end on the latest day with new reviews or menus (14 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Darwin with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.