Fewer of the same cafes had it lately (11, down from 13 in the 90 days before), though searches in Gold Coast are up 72% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
At least 17.5% of the cafes we see well had it in the last 90 days but searches are falling or well below their 12-month high, or fewer of the same cafes have it than in the 90 days before (from at least 10) while searches hold.
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 one83 Gold Coast cafes: 62 on their menus, 21 from posts. Prices are from the menus and may have changed.
Showing 10 of 83 cafes, cheapest first
Gold Coast cafes with Cold brew on their menus or in their posts.
The flavours on Gold Coast cafe menus that list cold brew, most cafes first, with the menu line most of them use. A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
It's peaking: popular, but maybe past its high.
This is a small sample: 300 Gold Coast cafes with an Instagram post or a menu in the last 90 days, so a few cafes can move a figure.
Gold Coast searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
Share of each city's cafes posting it, last 90 days.
Of every search for it in Australia, how many come from Gold Coast.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
36suburbs with cafes posting it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Gold Coast cafes with a post or customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
8 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Data updated 13 Nov 2026.
Cold brew is on 62 Gold Coast cafe menus and has been posted by cafes in 36 Gold Coast suburbs, while Gold Coast searches for it rose 72% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
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 Gold Coast cafes' own posts, 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 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 113 Gold Coast cafes across 36 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 83 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 62 Gold Coast cafe menus right now, including Caffeination Burleigh in Burleigh Heads, Caramel Cafe in Helensvale, Junior's Deli - Sandwich & Burger Restaurant in Mudgeeraba and The Winey Cow in Main Beach. 21 more cafes have posted it, though it is not on their current menu. 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.
The average is $7.12, from 48 Gold Coast cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $6 and $9; the lowest we have seen is $5.50 and the highest $9.90.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it at the biggest share of cafes: 25% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against 18% in Brisbane and 16% in Sydney.
It is popular, but may be past its high. The Froth rates cold brew as Peaking as of 13 Nov 2026: fewer of the same cafes had it lately (11, down from 13 in the 90 days before), though searches in Gold Coast are up 72% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025). In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 25% of the Gold Coast cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 435 cafes we have followed through both periods, 11 of the same cafes had it, against 13 in the 90 days before (down 15%). Gold Coast searches for it were up 72% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 390 searches for cold brew in Gold Coast in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 140 searches (Apr 2025) to 390 (Jan 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Gold Coast.
The earliest Gold Coast cafe post or customer review about cold brew that The Froth has is from 28 Nov 2019. 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 public post or customer review we found about it, the cafe's own post or a customer's, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with an Instagram post or 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 cafe posts or reviews (13 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Gold Coast with all of a trend's names added up. Captions stay private; we only link to public posts. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.