There is no single Australian stage: each city has its own, worked out from its own cafes with the same rules. This is the stage most of the cities share (Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide); every city's own stage is in City by city.
Rising: At least 10 cafes had it in the last 90 days, and either the number of the same cafes with it grew by a quarter or more on the 90 days before (counting only cafes we have read through both periods, and at least 10 of them), or it is new among them, or Sydney searches rose by a quarter or more while those cafes held steady.
Coffee steeped in cold water for hours rather than brewed hot, then poured over ice: smoother and less bitter than espresso over ice.
Biggest in Gold Coast, on 25% of its cafes in the last 90 days. Search changes are Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025.
Each card counts the city's cafes with a post, a customer review or a current menu naming it in the last 90 days. Its share is of that city's own cafes, so a smaller city can be ahead.
We don't read Perth, Canberra, Hobart and Adelaide cafes' own posts yet, so their figures come from Google reviews and menus only.
“Where to get one” lists a different set: cafes with it on a current menu or in a cafe's or creator's post, whenever it was. That is why a city's count there is not the same.
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 one1,085 cafes in 8 cities: 908 on their menus, 177 from posts. Prices are from the menus and may have changed.
Showing 10 of 1,085 cafes, cheapest first
Australian cafes with Cold brew on their menus or in their posts.
The flavours on cafe menus that list cold brew across Australia, most cafes first, with the menu line most of them use. A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
Searches say yes: up 50% on a year earlier. (Aug to Oct 2026 vs Aug to Oct 2025)
Australia searches a month
12,100 searches, the most yet.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days. Tap a city to see its page.
Of every search for it across Australia, Aug to Oct 2026, the part from each city.
Searches in Oct 2026. Each circle's area matches its number.
8cities where we've seen it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is how many cities had a cafe post or review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
Each city appears in the month of its earliest post or review in our data and grows as more of its suburbs have it. Its size is its cafes so far, never added to another city's.
Data updated 13 Nov 2026.
“Cold brew is on 1,085 cafe menus across 8 Australian cities, and furthest ahead in Gold Coast (25% of its cafes), while searches across Australia rose 50% (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. The Froth has seen it at cafes in 8 Australian cities (Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart and Adelaide) as of 13 Nov 2026.
It is on 1,085 cafe menus across 8 cities right now, including Noto Pantry in Mount Waverley, Melbourne, Bootsdarling in Darlinghurst, Sydney, Hush Specialty Coffee in Fremantle, Perth and Coffee Head Co. in South Brisbane, Brisbane. The "Where to get one" list on this page has every menu, city by city, with the price where the menu gives one and directions. Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.
The average is $6.86, from 653 cafe menus in 8 cities as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $5.50 and $8.50; the lowest we have seen is $4 and the highest $16. Each city's own average is on its page.
Of the cities The Froth reads, Gold Coast has it on the biggest share of cafes: 25% of Gold Coast cafes in the last 90 days, against 18% in Brisbane and 16% in Sydney. Each city's share is of its own cafes, so a smaller city can be ahead.
Searches for it across Australia were up 50% in Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025. There is no single Australian stage: each city has its own, from its own cafes. The Froth rates it Peaking in Gold Coast and Brisbane; Rising in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide; Emerging in Canberra and Hobart as of 13 Nov 2026.
There were 12,100 searches for cold brew across Australia in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the months we have, from Jul 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 4,400 (Jun 2025) to 12,100 (Oct 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand across every state and territory.
The earliest cafe post or customer review about cold brew that The Froth has, in any city we read, is from 24 Nov 2017. 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.
Every city is counted on its own, with the same rules: a cafe counts for cold brew from the first public post or customer review we found about it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. A city's share is of its own cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in the same 90 days, a chain counting once), and its change compares the same cafes in the last 90 days with the 90 before. Cities' cafe figures are never added together, because we read some cities' posts and others only from reviews and menus. Searches are monthly search demand across Australia with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.